#this is set between the macra terror & the faceless ones

[galacticlamps]

Jamie's been adjusting well to his life on the Tardis so far, but when it brings him and his friends to a market town on an alien planet, he's still eager to stick close to the Doctor. Although he isn't particularly interested in shopping, Jamie enjoys himself all the same, until he stumbles upon a sudden discovery about himself, the Doctor, and the future that might be waiting for them - leaving them with a choice to make.

#jamie mccrimmon #second doctor #two/jamie #i should have a consistent tag for my fics #look im not great at descriptions but i am rather proud of this title #i meant to post this earlier when i finished editing it but if i had i never would've come up with that so win win i guess #if i could've formatted it like an index entry i would have bc im pretentious enough #this is set between the macra terror & the faceless ones #but i had to check something in the roundheads while i was editing it & now in my head it's roundheads propaganda too #(but honestly it has next to nothing to do with that book i just didnt want to contradict it on something #& therefore wound up re-reading sections of it - and am now using this as an opportunity to suggest everyone read that) #(even tho this is meant to be a please read my fic post) #(whoops)

[galacticlamps]

So I finally just saw the Fury From the Deep animation, and I’m just gonna go ahead and pop some very random and unconnected thoughts on it here

I don’t know why, because I didn’t think this when I saw Macra or Faceless Ones, but I’m really curious what this one would look like in black & white. Maybe it’s because there were more reds & warm tones in it than I expected - I hadn’t noticed I gave it a color palate in my head but I guess the foam/seaweed/north sea aesthetic just got me thinking everything was gray and blue and green lol - but most of the sets seemed much darker and larger than I’d imagined as well, which made them look less clinical and more atmospheric, I guess, but I’d still be interested to see it once without color.

I think there was a calendar that said 1975? I wonder why they updated it? Surely not just to throw some pics of the Master in the background, they did that in the Faceless Ones and that’s definitely set in ‘66.

I found it funny how the animators went out of their way to devise a staging of the scene with Jamie standing on the Doctor’s shoulders that would protect their little cartoon guy from getting upskirted, while the telesnaps seem to imply no one in 1968 was as worried about being polite with the real actors.

I completely forgot the Harrises lived at no. 420. In fact, when I first saw that on their door, I thought it was a joke the animators tossed in and I was surprised they were allowed to be that blatant - but then Maggie said the number in a line of dialogue and I had to go to google to try and figure out if Victor Pemberton could have been trying make the joke himself - but everything I saw says 420 only became a byword for “the weed” in the ‘70s, which just goes to show you, good science fiction really does predict the future! Of all the serials, right?

Weirdly, I think this is the animation that I missed the actors’ movement in the most. I know the Second Doctor has a lot of physicality that must be missing from any animated episode, but here you’ve also got scenes like the one where Maggie Harris is sick and her husband’s all distressed, and even though I know why the characters are mostly standing still, it’s hard to not laugh a little at how stilted that can feel. But of course right after that, they managed to make it  more dynamic again with those dutch angles and the sharp cuts between her and the weed on the patio, so I guess they were also looking for ways to make it feel less static, and it’s nice to see the animation actually adding something other than pure watchablity - at least in this kind of animation, where it’s not meant to look like a shot-for-shot remake like with the Moonbase or Reign of Terror.

Maybe the stupidest thing I liked about it was seeing more of the Harris’s house - I realize it’s a silly thing to worry about but I think the novelization made a point of mentioning how small and simple it was & somehow that made me feel a little bad that Victoria was going to live with them if they were hard up for space already, but they’ve got a nice house and I’m sure she thought so too.

#not to be a late american but here i am #fury from the deep #second doctor #victoria waterfield #jamie mccrimmon #honestly i enjoyed that but i like the story too much to be completely chill #i still want at least a part of it to be found again one day #is that weird? #like i also love web of fear but i think i'd rather get a part of a fully missing thing back than the last piece of a partially missing #spread the wealth and all that #yeah that probably is weird #still it's a good animation so it's not quite the top of my list #oh well it's not like the gods of tape junking care what i think #honestly i got interrupted so much i need to see this again anyway #plus all those commercials on bbc america #literally added an hour to it like wtf #i can't call this a review it's just me being scatterbrained #but being scatterbrained in one place at least!