View Poll Results: Would Planet of the Spiders have worked better as a seven-parter?
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27th Aug 2008, 4:13 PM #1
The Planet of the Spiders Question
After watching Planet of the Spiders, it has come to my attention that the first five episodes are great, but episode six seems to be rather rushed.
So, the question is...
Would Planet of the Spiders have worked better as a seven-parter?
Cast your vote!For every fail, there is an equal and opposite win.
...Oh, who am I kidding?
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27th Aug 2008, 4:25 PM #2
I voted no. There's that vastly over padded chase sequence most of which is pretty unecessary and a lot of which was repeated in the reprise of the following episode. Most of that could go then leaving plenty of room to expand the last part, if indeed you think the last part is rushed. Which I don't.
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27th Aug 2008, 4:31 PM #3
If you were to stretch Part Six over two episodes, you could give the colonists of Metebelis 3 a lot more oppurtunities for character expansion, and also perhaps more of the Great One.That would make a great Part Seven.
For every fail, there is an equal and opposite win.
...Oh, who am I kidding?
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27th Aug 2008, 4:38 PM #4
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27th Aug 2008, 4:50 PM #5
I'd have happily sacrificed three episodes of Metebelis 3 Rubbish for another four episodes of Pertwee driving around in the Whomobile.
Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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27th Aug 2008, 4:59 PM #6
I'm going to come back to this later, as I need more than just a few moments to ponder such a momentus question.
Si.
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27th Aug 2008, 5:35 PM #7
Riiight...
For every fail, there is an equal and opposite win.
...Oh, who am I kidding?
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27th Aug 2008, 5:36 PM #8Pip Madeley Guest
I think it would've been a much better five parter.
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27th Aug 2008, 6:22 PM #9
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27th Aug 2008, 6:39 PM #10
Another half hour of Pertwee when Tom is waiting to take over would be a bad thing... though I'm sure there are several, well, one poster on PS who would disagree...
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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27th Aug 2008, 6:51 PM #11
And me!
For every fail, there is an equal and opposite win.
...Oh, who am I kidding?
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27th Aug 2008, 6:55 PM #12
Perhaps Part 7 could have been a 25 minute lecture to Sarah and the Brigadier. 'Now don't forget, war is bad... don't run with scissors... purple and green don't mix... as my old mentor told me... don't walk under ladders...'
Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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27th Aug 2008, 6:59 PM #13Pip Madeley Guest
'... and remember, SPLINK!'
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27th Aug 2008, 7:34 PM #14
WHAAAAAAT?For every fail, there is an equal and opposite win.
...Oh, who am I kidding?
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27th Aug 2008, 7:39 PM #15Pip Madeley Guest
Showing your age...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s--C7dMmgA0
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27th Aug 2008, 7:58 PM #16
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27th Aug 2008, 8:10 PM #17
@Ant.
No, it wouldn't be better as a 7 parter. If it were in 7 parts then I'm sure we'd be discussing "would it be better as a 6 parter as it seems so padded?".
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27th Aug 2008, 8:35 PM #18
I've long since wondered what Pertwee got up to in the week between dissapearing from Metabelis 3 and returning to Unit HQ (you know, the gap Sarah laments as she pops in one day to see if he's back). "Got lost in the Time Vortex" my arse. He knows he's dying. He's got a time machine. No companions to watch what he's getting up to in his final days. And he comes back a week later looking utterly shagged out.
Yes, I'd like another episode so we see where he went and how he spent that week.
Si.
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27th Aug 2008, 9:12 PM #19I've long since wondered what Pertwee got up to in the week between dissapearing from Metabelis 3 and returning to Unit HQ (you know, the gap Sarah laments as she pops in one day to see if he's back). "Got lost in the Time Vortex" my arse. He knows he's dying. He's got a time machine. No companions to watch what he's getting up to in his final days. And he comes back a week later looking utterly shagged out.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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27th Aug 2008, 9:22 PM #20
I thought he might have visited an Offy and picked up some dancing girls.
Si.
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27th Aug 2008, 9:26 PM #21
Pertwee would have done if he were in the Doctors shoes.
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27th Aug 2008, 9:55 PM #22
Didn't he visit Albert Square?
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27th Aug 2008, 10:02 PM #23
That's just naughty talk.
Si.
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27th Aug 2008, 10:07 PM #24
"I should be regenerating not bounding around like a Megalothian Slime Skimmer."
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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27th Aug 2008, 10:30 PM #25
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I voted no, because I've always thought the seven part stories varied a bit too much in pace. Not saying that as a slight on Inferno or any of the other seven parters, but they do seem to have episodes that fly by and episodes that drag. I suppose if you know you're filling another episode you're tempted to start too many plotlines then drag them together too quickly. There's already a fair amount going on in Planet of the Spiders so I wouldn't have taken the risk.
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