Post by andyg on Dec 20, 2012 11:49:30 GMT -5
This is one of my favourite episodes of Season 7 with the BBC doing a propper "Western" for the show, but did anybody catch that this may be the episode where The Doctor gets his "Long green coat" that he was first seen in last Season's "Let's Kill Hitler?" Amy is seen drapping a green coat over Kahler-Jex after some minuets into the show - then The Doctor is seen wearing it confronting the "Gunslinger." My guess is he kept it when he went back to the TARDIS to bring it into the town so Amy and Rory didn't have to walk back - threw it somewhere inside, and picked up his tweed jacket back in the sherrif's office before they all left.
Anyway, it was said (many moons ago) that the Brittish couldn't do a propper western show and it was proven in the William Hartnell episode "The Gunfighters" - that the show had to deal with a storyline of a gunfight at the OK Corral with Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and Doc Holliday. It was billed as "The worst" episode that they have ever done. I remember seeing it on the PBS stations and talking to Whovians at conventions in Philly and Valley Forge and we all aggreed to it. Even the Doctor Who clubs back then had to admit to that. But back in the early stages it was thought things were not really looked at closely since the show was supposed to be for children on an early Saturday evening.
Now with better actors, better imagery, scripts, and technology, along with people knowing how to do things, the series is now praised around the world again not only as a "cult show" like it was in the 80's, but as in the mainstream of entertainment and now mentioned on other shows as "The Big Bang Theory," "Criminal Minds," "House," and others.
Anyway, it was said (many moons ago) that the Brittish couldn't do a propper western show and it was proven in the William Hartnell episode "The Gunfighters" - that the show had to deal with a storyline of a gunfight at the OK Corral with Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and Doc Holliday. It was billed as "The worst" episode that they have ever done. I remember seeing it on the PBS stations and talking to Whovians at conventions in Philly and Valley Forge and we all aggreed to it. Even the Doctor Who clubs back then had to admit to that. But back in the early stages it was thought things were not really looked at closely since the show was supposed to be for children on an early Saturday evening.
Now with better actors, better imagery, scripts, and technology, along with people knowing how to do things, the series is now praised around the world again not only as a "cult show" like it was in the 80's, but as in the mainstream of entertainment and now mentioned on other shows as "The Big Bang Theory," "Criminal Minds," "House," and others.