Community Episode Watch: "Terror of the Autons" Reaction Post

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marah_sarie suggested we do a bit of a greenbubblewrap thing and watch old Master eps as a com, thus giving people new to Old Who a chance to express squee, confusion, etc. without feeling intimidated by gigantic fuckoff canon and get into it with a bit of structure: a 'lil arc a week? Y'all can do that! It also gives people who are kinda old-who veterans a chance to dust off old faves and view them with new vim. (I like that word. Viiiiim.)

As marah_sarie pointed out, we would love nothing more than to find a vast living room, throw on a DVD and make popcorn, but 1) we live on different continents and 2) we do not have sufficient popcorn. No pressure to watch! It's communal lovin', not homework, we just think it would be fun and take people from being like "Old Who: vast and scary, like dark continent of television" to more of a "Ah yes, A CHAIR ATE A BITCH in that ep. Quite. Lulz." place.

Your comments don't have to be just about the ship: if you yearn for Jo's boots, do tell! If you think an aspect of the production was craptacular, feel free to say! If you have meta or insight or RL production details, or if you simply think Five's hair is too flouncy to be real, bring it! Just post reactions in the comments: blog while watching, give us highlights, random thoughts, responses to other peeps: GO.

I will say that with period television (and sadly I don't remember who I'm paraphrasing here), you don't have to lower your expectations, but you do have to adjust them. Sometimes the special effects will be uncool. Sometimes the film will be grainy. Sometimes Some Utter Bastard will have lost the color copy of one of your favorite Who eps and you have to watch it in black and white despite it being well into the color era and why, cruel god why--*cough* yes. Anyway. Yes. It's not bad! But it is different.

Worried about where to attain such eps? See the little Links section on the page? It's to your left, if you're logged in properly. Click 'classic Master episodes,' there's either downloadable files or links to, well, everything.

We may not keep to a chronological order, but for now, why not begin at the beginning with

TERROR OF THE AUTONS

(oh, they are so vary scary)