Frankly in awe of how Planet 55’s The Tenth Planet Pt 4 animation manages to have a distinct and effective style of it’s own that somehow feels completely authentic to the spirit of the original production.
All the Tenth Planet Cybermen gifs I have on file from the old days. I hope these save as Gifs and not Webpages. If they don't, I know a place where you can fix them (at least for now):
https://ezgif.com/webp-to-gif
Is this not what Tumblr is for? I've been away a while. Did I miss anything?
Next I'll do the World Enough and Time ones. They're okay.
Once again struck by how badly the First Doctor's characterization was fumbled in "Twice Upon a Time". It doesn't help that David Bradly, for all that he was a brilliant Hartnell in "An Adventure in Space and Time", has a poor grasp of the character's mannerisms and modes of speech, but even if his performance were impeccable (and, to be clear, I understand the difference between an impression and a performance, but Bradley simply did not evoke the First Doctor for me), Moffat's writing choices would still drag it down; he managed the perversely impressive feat of writing a version of the Doctor that only a social conservative could love.
Obviously there is some distance between what was progressive in the 1960s and what is progressive nowadays, and obviously there are elements of early Doctor Who that are out of step with contemporary mores, but I think that Moffat's portrayal belies both a hefty dose of chronological snobbery and a misapprehension of the Doctor's character-arc from 1963 through 1966: The Doctor of "An Unearthly Child", who spouts a racist myth about Native Americans and tries to brain a caveman with a rock, is much closer to the caricatured First Doctor of "Twice Upon a Time" than the Doctor of "The Tenth Planet", who was straightforwardly heroic, had only a year previously described himself as "A citizen of the universe", and had featured in the anti-imperialist parable that was "The Savages".
All this is doubly a shame because I don't hate "Twice Upon a TIme"; it's on the whole a fairly enjoyable epilogue to Moffat and Capaldi's times on the show, but it's deeply regrettable to consider how many viewers might have come away from it thinking that Hartnell's Doctor was an unreconstructed sexist
'That must be why there's so few people, those computers must do all the work' 'I wonder if they've got anyone to the moon yet' and it's 1986. Doctor Who is such a fascinating insight into what people guessed the future would be like