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Audioland - Third Doctor serials
I managed to rip a large portion of Three's serials as audios. Or about... hrm. Half, I think? Anyway.
Terror of the Autons, The Green Death, Frontier in Space, Day of the Daleks, Carnival of Monsters, Claws of Axos, Curse of Peladon, The Time Monster and The Three Doctors all work pretty well as audio-only. There's enough exposition in the dialog as well as other cues to indicate what's happening for them to work all right. I enjoyed them quite a bit, even if sometimes I went "...what just happened?" as I hadn't seen the episode in ages.
The Sea Devils - what I listened to seemed to work, but as I stopped during the second episode and when I got home I immediately watched the whole thing, I can't say whether it would have worked all the way through (I think it might have).
Colony in Space - a bit convoluted and confusing as audio-only.
Planet of the Daleks - this one was mostly entertaining, but some of it is hard to get because Jo spends a lot of time silently creeping around, which doesn't really come across when it's audio only. (there's a reason I watched it as soon as I'd gotten home that night)
Also, gosh, but Three says "reverse the polarity" a lot. I hadn't realized it before. Also, Jo does a lot more than my dim recollections and the fandom's view of her says she does. In fact, she's generally rather intelligent and brilliant when on her own. It's just being round the Doctor that makes her not so bright (and he tends to have that effect on everyone, it's just more noticeable with her as she's the one he's around a lot).
Jo's last season also feels--well, it feels all through the season as though she's growing away from the Doctor? This might just be me projecting onto her, though. I mean, in Green Death, it feels like there's no surprise that she's going to go. (also, there is some epic cock-blocking on Three's part a couple times)
Finally, though, I was surprised at the end of Green Death to realize that Jo wasn't leaving the Doctor to get married. Getting married was incidental. She was really leaving to go off and gallivant around the Amazon in order to help world hunger and work towards world peace and harmony and such.
Terror of the Autons, The Green Death, Frontier in Space, Day of the Daleks, Carnival of Monsters, Claws of Axos, Curse of Peladon, The Time Monster and The Three Doctors all work pretty well as audio-only. There's enough exposition in the dialog as well as other cues to indicate what's happening for them to work all right. I enjoyed them quite a bit, even if sometimes I went "...what just happened?" as I hadn't seen the episode in ages.
The Sea Devils - what I listened to seemed to work, but as I stopped during the second episode and when I got home I immediately watched the whole thing, I can't say whether it would have worked all the way through (I think it might have).
Colony in Space - a bit convoluted and confusing as audio-only.
Planet of the Daleks - this one was mostly entertaining, but some of it is hard to get because Jo spends a lot of time silently creeping around, which doesn't really come across when it's audio only. (there's a reason I watched it as soon as I'd gotten home that night)
Also, gosh, but Three says "reverse the polarity" a lot. I hadn't realized it before. Also, Jo does a lot more than my dim recollections and the fandom's view of her says she does. In fact, she's generally rather intelligent and brilliant when on her own. It's just being round the Doctor that makes her not so bright (and he tends to have that effect on everyone, it's just more noticeable with her as she's the one he's around a lot).
Jo's last season also feels--well, it feels all through the season as though she's growing away from the Doctor? This might just be me projecting onto her, though. I mean, in Green Death, it feels like there's no surprise that she's going to go. (also, there is some epic cock-blocking on Three's part a couple times)
Finally, though, I was surprised at the end of Green Death to realize that Jo wasn't leaving the Doctor to get married. Getting married was incidental. She was really leaving to go off and gallivant around the Amazon in order to help world hunger and work towards world peace and harmony and such.