Doctor Who: The War Games - In 10 Minutes!

[skener78]

This epic 10 part story stars Philip Madoc as the Baddie!

[thecosmichobo]

@skener78 Indeed... R.I.P Philip Madoc... He was a great baddie in this story - the War Lord. Philip's best known Doctor Who role though would have to be as Solon, the mad scientist in The Brain of Morbius...

[robertwlester]

well so much so quick, its like food with no taste or sex without feeling

[aperson22222]

The Daleks' Master Plan would be a good one for an X Minutes installment. Trial of a Time Lord, too.

[thecosmichobo]

@aperson22222 Thank-you for the suggestions! I had considered MasterPlan... but as there is only 3 surviving full eps, plus a splattering of clips, I'm not sure how it would "feel", with the mixture of still and moving images. Will certainly give it more thought. Trial as a whole was an option I hadn't considered, but now you mention it, I think it would work quite well! Currently working on another WHO project, but will hopefully get onto another Xminutes soon.

[aperson22222]

@thecosmichobo True, Master Plan would be badly compromised by the unavailable clips. Damned lost clips; they make it so hard to enjoy the first two Doctors. As for Trial, now that I think of it it would seem to be a natural follow-up to this one: The Doctor is once again forced by the Time Lords to defend his actions on pain of punishment. I started with the revival and it wasn't until "The End of Time" (another likely candidate, since it's such a long-runner--the longest revival story yet,

[aperson22222]

I believe) that I realized that the Time Lords were more often antagonists than allies.

[thecosmichobo]

@aperson22222 The only time the Time Lords weren't really being antagonists was The Three Doctors... though I can't say I liked what became of them in the new series...

[aperson22222]

@thecosmichobo I started with "Rose" and think I didn't watch a classic episode till after "The End of Time" so it seems natural to me. I would watch Nine and Ten mourn for the lost civilization and find it poignant. Then I'd watch "The War Games" or "Trial of a Time Lord" or "The Five Doctors" and think "Huh--They had it coming."

I did notice that both Nine's and Ten's final stories gave the Doctor a chance to repeat or reverse his Time War actions. In "Parting of the Ways" he was once again

[aperson22222]

faced with the chance to destroy all the Daleks (though the Cult of Skaro would still have been there--There's always that one last survivor rebuilding the race, isn't there?) and he couldn't bring himself to do it again. In "The End of Time" he once again faced the chance to destroy all the Time Lords and he felt he HAD to do it again.

[borgduck]

10 episodes in 10 minutes. I've happily watched all 10 episodes in the space of an afternoon with beer,  then again, the following afternoon.

[thecosmichobo]

@borgduck Pat Troughton is a sentimental favourite of mine, and it hurts that so many of his episodes are gone... but even I don't know if I could watch the War Games, all the way through, twice in as many days! :} As much as anything I hope this cut will encourage people to watch the full version. It was a great send off for a great Doctor.

[blofeld39]

9:12: Noooo! Not the Master! :-P

[thecosmichobo]

@blofeld39 :) The Mind Robber always makes my brother question whether the Master of the Land of Fiction is in fact The Master...  Not quite.

[outofthegreenmist]

A great story, you've summed it up pretty well.

[thecosmichobo]

@outofthegreenmist It was harder than I expected to present each episode in an at least semi coherent manner within 1 minute. Ultimately it was a game of whittling, watching the episode, cutting it into events, whittling some more, finding where exposition was being duplicated to whittle yet more... not to mention getting the sound to flow nicely. I enjoyed it greatly however, and am proud of the finished product.

[outofthegreenmist]

@thecosmichobo You know, you spend ages on these things and you don't get many views and then someone uploads 3 seconds of silence and a black screen and they get millions of hits. It isn't fair.