Andrew Hodson

[Andrew Hodson @CleverPrime]

@TobyHadoke @huw_dennis I'm completely aware that you know everything I know and didn't imagine otherwise. More directionlessly infodumped on something no one asked me to explain, as is my irritating tendency. I'm annoyed at me too. Sorry for being a twat.

[Andrew Hodson @CleverPrime]

@TobyHadoke @huw_dennis I'm sorry to have contributed to this recurring annoyance. I also just want to share information I find interesting. But it's a fine line to sounding like a condescending prick and I have barged right over it, not for the first time.

[Andrew Hodson @CleverPrime]

@TobyHadoke @huw_dennis In the end it was *almost* consistent. The idea that it's impossible to understand is overblown. If you pair each Mission one with the most similar looking DMP one, all the names stay the same except that Trantis and Celation swap places.

[Andrew Hodson @CleverPrime]

@TobyHadoke @huw_dennis So making Mission didn't organically teach people the name/costume associations; there'd been a five week gap, recasting and redesigns of varying severity, and viewers had no clue what the original pairings were. Zero motivation to put effort into consistency with Mission.

[Andrew Hodson @CleverPrime]

@tarkinlego @frombwtocolor That's pretty much all that you could honestly call 'pop music'. There's hundreds of pre existing tracks used in classic Who, but nearly all are library music or classical music.

[Andrew Hodson @CleverPrime]

@tarkinlego @frombwtocolor Revelation of the Daleks and Delta and the Bannerman both have lots of pop songs - mostly covers, but a few were the original. When they play an old record on screen it's usually genuine pop music from that era (eg Black Orchid)

[Andrew Hodson @CleverPrime]

@Fahrenfew @josh_snares K

[Andrew Hodson @CleverPrime]

@frombwtocolor The bits that show dolls being made in close up are stock footage from a 1963 Pathe film. It probably didn't come with clean audio, and that might have led to the choice to have a 'radio' playing

[Andrew Hodson @CleverPrime]

@frombwtocolor Electric Banana in The Green Death also

[Andrew Hodson @CleverPrime]

@frombwtocolor It's on purpose. There are a few other examples of contemporary pop songs for just a few seconds around this time. The Piglets in The Sea Devils, King Crimson in The Mind of Evil. There was also one in Colony in Space but the whole scene got cut for time

[Andrew Hodson @CleverPrime]

@2hrTV @frombwtocolor True, but in a different episode. Colony in Space 2, when the Dr watches propoganda videos. One of them was to have 'Tank' as its soundtrack. But they cut this scene for time, and Tank never made it to screen

[Andrew Hodson @CleverPrime]

@Fahrenfew @josh_snares Every other person involved in Underworld has been consistently negative about it since the earliest interviews. The fan reviews available to me admittedly start later than I'd thought. Earliest I've got is 1990 where 'it looked like crap' is presented as an accepted premise.

[Andrew Hodson @CleverPrime]

@Fahrenfew @josh_snares Then your choice to frame it as a hoary old cliche of 'people didn't know better in the past' was very strange. Looking at old interviews, It is true that Williams took a more balanced/positive view, though he does still acknowledge it as having failed.

[Andrew Hodson @CleverPrime]

@abradleystocks @josh_snares It's because this didn't happen out of artistic desire; it happened due to budget catastrophe. They couldn't afford sets so it was this or abandon a story that was well into production

[Andrew Hodson @CleverPrime]

@Fahrenfew @josh_snares Books and magazines published very early in the 80s refer to this story's established reputation as a failed experiment that looked like crap. You are condescendingly explaining a POV that never existed.

[Andrew Hodson @CleverPrime]

@Fahrenfew @josh_snares This story was made at the exact time Doctor Who made its all time greatest sales. They were explicitly aware that it was going to sold to ~100 US stations who'd each air it several times. Australia also started its decade of non stop repeats about now.

[Andrew Hodson @CleverPrime]

@David_Kitchen_ @Prof_Quiteamess @theDWshow https://t.co/42x45eJ2qe

[Andrew Hodson @CleverPrime]

@Prof_Quiteamess @David_Kitchen_ @theDWshow I'm in if we canonise Gia Kelly's Mum being a Play School presenter.
(Louise Pago has a cameo doing this in Australian fantasy series Spellbinder).

[Andrew Hodson @CleverPrime]

@Prof_Quiteamess @David_Kitchen_ @theDWshow Behold, a companion!