Delta and the Bannermen

I typically use this episode to undermine and discredit McCoy's tenure of "DW!" Just mentioning the title is enough to get most people to laugh! "Remembrance Of The Daleks" the only ep I can stomach repeated!  [giveu[]

- - http://scifiblogs3.blogspot.com/2011/08/children-of-rassilon-kapla.html -

- http://scifiblogs3.blogspot.com/2011/09/doctor-who-other-sci-fi-program-comments.html -

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- http://scifiblogs3.blogspot.com/2011/01/introduction-to-blakes-7.html - 'B7 & DW'

Yeah, that opening theme music stinks doesn't it. Keff McCulloch's wasn't one of the better composers they had. The visuals are stellar in the opening though, and the new logo is WICKED as the new companion Ace, would put it.
How I love McCoy's first year(minus Time and the Rani.) Doctor Who doing a musical tribute to the 1950's with a wonderfully weird story and some heavy themes mixed in. This entire serial was a delightful romp.

cracking cast.



Balotelli...Aguerooooo! I swear you will never see anything like this ever again!

As one of a seemingly tiny gaggle of fans who actually like Delta and the Bannermen (I feel like a heretic!) and, being that I coincidentally rewatched it only yesterday I feel duty bound to share some random observations of Delta' with it still fresh:

- Belinda Mayne (who played Delta) isn't very good though to be fair her character is almost completely devoid of personality. She's also sexy as hell though so it's not all bad!

- The story offers up one of the more intriguing 'what ifs' in Who, namely what would Ray have been like had she become the companion instead of Ace (as was purportedly being considered by the production team at the time)? Welsh people look away now but I suspect that Sara Griffiths exaggerated Welsh accent would've grated sooner with viewers rather than later. Ray's bubbly and resourceful though so she's certainly a character with potential.

- Ken Dodd's cameo role isn't nearly as bad as it sounds or indeed deserves to be and, dare I say it, actually works quite well with Ken doing a surprisingly haunting job with his death agonies.

- Is Mel slightly less irritating in this one? She almost seems to have a character in Delta and there's even a brief hint of her computer programmer (no don't laugh) background!

- As a Holmesian-esque (Bob not Sherlock) double act, Hawk and Weissmuller are actually pretty good if somewhat extraneous to the story.

- Though Delta works as a three parter it certainly could've benefited from an extra episode to pace things better.

- The opening 'battle' sequence with the planet superimposed in the background via post-production FX looks really good and throws the viewer into the story.

- The paltry three episode length doesn't afford much depth to the characters - especially Gavrok and the Bannermen....who the hell are they anyway? What's their motivation?

- A combination of a script that doesn't know how to define the seventh Doctor's persona combined with McCoy's visible uncertainty of how to tackle the role himself is a recurring feature (and failure) in Season 24 but is especially prominent in Delta' which definitely detracts from the story.

- Just noticed via my aforementioned rewatch that the Bannermen's uniforms are old Federation Trooper outfits from Blake's 7 with the Federation emblem blackened out! The helmets are obviously repurposed from Earthshock.

.....I don't care what the rest of those philistines say, I like Delta and the Bannermen (despite its flaws). So there. 

they put heavy green makeup on a baby to pass her off as a Chimeron.