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clo_againI really kind of want The Five Doctors. I remember my brother watching it when I was a was a tiny wee person and me sitting there going "But how are they all the same person? If they're the same person why do they look different? Doesn't the world end if that are that many versions of the same person? (I'd at least had that much of an intro to sci-fi by the time I was five). What's going on? So why is this happening? Where's Tom Baker? (I also had a favourite Doctor). And now what are they doing? Will the world end now? Why does that alien planet look like here? Can I go to an alien planet?"
I expect my brother's response to the last one, at that point, was an emphatic "YES, GO FAR FAR AWAY." Most of what I watched when I was younger was stuff that he watched, just so I could ask annoying questions the whole way through.
But the main point of this ramble is that I remember watching this. I must've been tiny because it's a vague, fuzzy memory that's all impressions of green hills and stone rooms but I remember it. This - I suspect more than that scene with all the Cybermen breaking through the clingfilm over that giant beehive-chamber thingy which is my other branded-on 'Who memory - is where my glee over them restarting 'Who came from. This is what taught me in my confused little mind, the concept of regeneration and multiple Doctors, even if I didn't quite get it at the time. This is my childhood.
But my childhood costs money and considering I came home yesterday with The Bourne Identity, Red Dwarf series 1 (£6 in Tesco! the only other series they had - VIII - was £6 as well, so all 'Dwarf might be £6 in Tesco right now. Go forth and buy!) and a padded DVD case to carry the growing number of DVDs I'm taking to London, to find State of Play and the Life on Mars soundtrack on my doormat - I think perhaps I shouldn't buy any more DVDs. Not to mention the shenanigans I'm having to go through to get them to fit on my DVDs shelves now.
Still. It gives me a fuzzy glow of nostalgia to think I can buy it on DVD anytime. My *childhood*. And it's entirely possible that my brother has it and I can uphold the family tradition of bugging the crap out of him until he lets me borrow it. :D
I expect my brother's response to the last one, at that point, was an emphatic "YES, GO FAR FAR AWAY." Most of what I watched when I was younger was stuff that he watched, just so I could ask annoying questions the whole way through.
But the main point of this ramble is that I remember watching this. I must've been tiny because it's a vague, fuzzy memory that's all impressions of green hills and stone rooms but I remember it. This - I suspect more than that scene with all the Cybermen breaking through the clingfilm over that giant beehive-chamber thingy which is my other branded-on 'Who memory - is where my glee over them restarting 'Who came from. This is what taught me in my confused little mind, the concept of regeneration and multiple Doctors, even if I didn't quite get it at the time. This is my childhood.
But my childhood costs money and considering I came home yesterday with The Bourne Identity, Red Dwarf series 1 (£6 in Tesco! the only other series they had - VIII - was £6 as well, so all 'Dwarf might be £6 in Tesco right now. Go forth and buy!) and a padded DVD case to carry the growing number of DVDs I'm taking to London, to find State of Play and the Life on Mars soundtrack on my doormat - I think perhaps I shouldn't buy any more DVDs. Not to mention the shenanigans I'm having to go through to get them to fit on my DVDs shelves now.
Still. It gives me a fuzzy glow of nostalgia to think I can buy it on DVD anytime. My *childhood*. And it's entirely possible that my brother has it and I can uphold the family tradition of bugging the crap out of him until he lets me borrow it. :D
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Date: 2008-03-07 06:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-07 08:34 pm (UTC)*shame at lack of Red Dwarf icons*