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I get it, but I think the “Doctor Who looks like crap that’s why we love it” mentality towards the special effects and imagery kills me. I get it, but I dunno, it’s always so reductive to the whole swathes of truly impactful imagery and magic tricks throughout the whole show, the classic serials and whatever else, as well as reductive to the budget and production contexts, I dunno. What are we comparing to? Hollywood level budget? Cinematic money?

#I became obsessed with older special effects pretty early as a kid with Harryhausens and Godzilla and the like and I dunno #like take Godzilla when you step out of Tokusatsu fanbases you just get swarmed by IT LOOKS SO FUNNY AND BAD AND SILLY THAT'S WHY WE LOVE IT #a) no #b) you cannot deride these special effects without diving into the history of developing an entire rival art form to Hollywood and the like #c) compared to fucking what?#d) Godzilla Effects So Bad Lmao is actually a very Hollywood-centric mentality that dates back to Harryhausen himself reducing Godzilla #to a ripoff #and I dunno don't you LIKE seeing the artifice and the craft?#Don't you like seeing the magic trick?#Hartnell's first two years brim with insanely surreal and haunting imagery #and I'm baffled I don't see anyone else talking about how hard the Troughton era retools 50s B-scifi aesthetics?#season 7 looks and feels INCREDIBLE all cold and violent and scary #I admit a lot of Pertwee looks fuzzy and wobbly but again is the context and the successful illusions doing nothing for you?#Hinchcliffe/Holmes is the colonist fiction it is and I'm sorry but tHE STORM MINER?#The forests of Planet of Evil and Face of Evil???#I've gone on a lot about why I love so much of the look and effects of s18 to more or less Caves #but Six's time slides into something really really strikingly strange that I feel really can't be fixed to Bad or So Bad It's Good I dunno #I dunno!#I think I just really dislike the SO BAD IT'S GOOD mentality

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