Doctor Who Season 2 (28) Episode 3 Rewatch: School Reunion

[Thanas]

Though Anthony Head was a bit wasted, I remember people thinking at the time he'd have a made a good master. On reflection now he would have had to have been a lot saner version of the Master than Simms was. More in line with Jaccobi's pre-regeneration performance.

Hmmm....I don't know. Head is best used as some sort of a Machiavellian genius and that isn't quite what I believe the master to be. I thought the part he played was perfect for him - a highly intelligent evil mastermind.

[Patrick Degan]

Though Anthony Head was a bit wasted, I remember people thinking at the time he'd have a made a good master. On reflection now he would have had to have been a lot saner version of the Master than Simms was. More in line with Jaccobi's pre-regeneration performance.

Hmmm....I don't know. Head is best used as some sort of a Machiavellian genius and that isn't quite what I believe the master to be. I thought the part he played was perfect for him - a highly intelligent evil mastermind.

No, Anthony Stewart Head could have worked as the Master, playing one much more in the mould of Roger Delgado's version of the character.

[Thanas]

Okay - Who is the person who voted 1 on this episode? I want to know why.

[Straha]

Okay - Who is the person who voted 1 on this episode? I want to know why.

As do I. I can understand giving this a three or, if you focus overly much on the wafer thinness and utter impossibility of what is supposed to be the 'main plot' and hate the Doctor, Rose, Sarah Jane and K-9, a two. But I'm downright curious as to why someone would vote for a 1 and really want to know why someone would give it that. (Also, I want to make sure that it's an actual vote and not [as has happened in other threads] a mistake.)

[Thanas]

^Or someone trying to mess with the rewatch project. I can easily see someone going "Oh, a poll. I'lll just...click 1." Especially with some of the posters that now populate the board.

[Atavarius]

Straha, perhaps for future eps we skip the poll and just force people to put their rating in their post?

[Ryushikaze]

I gave it a four. While the plot was a joke, the character interactions were golden, even Micky and K-9. It also set up a lot of the tension that would play out in the end of the season, and then be undercut in S29 and downright ignored in S30

Plus, it set the stage for the Sarah Jane adventures, which I quite liked.

[Thanas]

Straha, perhaps for future eps we skip the poll and just force people to put their rating in their post?

I don't know about that, since the thread would most likely then turn into me-tooing. A better solution might be to just force people who rate the episodes below 3 to explain their reasoning. If not, why not just ignore those votes?

[Thanas]

C'mon, lets be honest here. If you were trolling a vote about a good episode, and the general sentiment is that it was a very good episode, what would you do? Vote along with the general public or vote contrary to them?

[Ryushikaze]

I gave it a four. While the plot was a joke, the character interactions were golden, even Micky and K-9. It also set up a lot of the tension that would play out in the end of the season, and then be undercut in S29 and downright ignored in S30

Plus, it set the stage for the Sarah Jane adventures, which I quite liked.

[Ryushikaze]

Could a mod please delete this post and the one above? I accidentally hit submit again when paging back through the browser.

[Straha]

Straha, perhaps for future eps we skip the poll and just force people to put their rating in their post?

I don't know about that, since the thread would most likely then turn into me-tooing. A better solution might be to just force people who rate the episodes below 3 to explain their reasoning. If not, why not just ignore those votes?

I'm mixed on this. I do want to prevent trolling. At the same time there isn't a real easy way to do it. Making everyone post their rating is tedious and annoying. Saying "everyone who votes under three has to explain" will be fine for stuff like this and "Girl in the Fireplace" but will be incredibly annoying and prone to me-tooing for episodes like Fear Her, Love and Monsters and Idiot's Lantern. Also it lets people who could only watch the episode about a week after the thread was posted rate the episode without necroing.

The other thing is that I don't want to do is bias the ratings. Part of me wants to excise the 1 vote from the ratings because there's no explanation and it's so far out of step with all the other votes. At the same time I don't want to not keep the 1 solely because I think this is one of the better episodes of the season (and certainly, I think, the best so far.) I'm flummoxed as to what to do, but I think that (unless this becomes a serious problem) I'll do nothing for now.

On a side note, 1 voter, could you please either post here or PM me if you'd prefer. I am really genuinely curious as to why you voted that. I wont argue, try to change your mind, etc. I just want to know.