http://dailypop.wordpress.com/2012/08/19/doctor-who-and-the-nightmare-fair/ Protecting Other People from wasting their leisure time Tue, 21 May 2013 06:02:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://dailypop.wordpress.com/2012/08/19/doctor-who-and-the-nightmare-fair/#comment-34042 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:03:58 +0000 http://dailypop.wordpress.com/?p=15823#comment-34042 I wonder how this would have worked on-screen? Do you (or anyone reading this) know how close the Ainsworth adaptation is to Graham Williams’s novelisation? The Nightmare Fair excited me as an *idea* when I was a child, “Michael Gough returning as the Celestial Toymaker? WOW!”, but now I wonder if it would not have been as ill-advised as the flawed returns of Omega, the “Silurians”, the “Sea Devils”, and the sontarans, etc.
You are more enthusiastic about Season 22 than I. Revelation is I think the best story, if flawed, the others have their moments (even if in the execrable Timelash they really *are* just *moments*!) but are flush with poor characterisation, terrible plotting, and worse writing which outweigh the more brilliant ideas in Varos. Of course, I’ll still watch ‘em, occasionally! I really like Nicola Bryant as Peri (surprise) even if she was given very little to work with, sure she’s gorgeous (still is) but what makes her appealling is that she seems *nice* (and *saucy*;)) as for Peri, I also enjoyed her sarcasm against the parti-coloured blowhard Sixth Doctor and the villains (though I would have prefered her with the Fifth). Ah, differing opinions, at least 22 is better than 23 .

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