Doctor Who and the Image of the Fendahl

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Doctor Who and the Image of the Fendahl

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It’s a convincing argument. He argues that, in the face of Mary Whitehouse complaining about dolls that kill, the Doctor drowning, and Leela’s skirt being too small (as if that’s a thing), the BBC had to rein Doctor Who in. And it did so by airing one of the most chilling stories ever. “Both on television and as a book, Image is a superlatively creepy story – it creeps you out (and I’d argue that if it doesn’t, you haven’t yet understood everything it’s saying and doing),” he writes. “Indeed, I shall show that it is, implicitly, the scariest Doctor Who story, and I mean that literally – for its terror lies in its implications… If Mary Whithouse had understood Image, she might’ve found it more offensive than a few mere strangulations and a toy with a dagger.” Another aspect that also sells the Fendahl as a menace is the Doctor’s reaction to them, they are built up as a horror from the Time Lord’s past. That sort of thing is ten a penny now (ancient Time Lord foes/weapons from the dark times etc.) – but at the time was quite novel and different. Even the Doctor himself seems scared, to the point of not thinking straight: Barnes, Alan (28 February 2007). "The Fact of Fiction: Image of the Fendahl". Doctor Who Magazine (379): 42–50. Millennia ago, Time Lords didn’t destroy the Fendahl, which haunts them and prepares to kill. At a haunted priory in haunted woods, an impossibly old skull revived the Doctor’s nightmares and drew Thea Ransom as her scientific team scanned a hole in time threatening the Earth. The story focused on the skull until the Doctor arrived asking about deaths.

Subverted later on when the Doctor is examining the dead Fendahleen. He comments that it is beautiful, but when Leela questions this he reveals he was actually talking about the way he killed it. We have commentary from Tom Baker (The Doctor) Louise Jameson (Leela) Wanda Ventham (Thea Ransome or now known as Benedict Cumberbatch's Mother and Edward Arthur (Adam Colby) Discover more high quality Doctor Who figurines with the Doctor Who Figurine Collection! From iconic box sets like the Doctor Who Story Figurine Box Sets: Image of the Fendahl to individual figurines of your favorite Doctor Who character, you won’t want to miss this collection! Louise Jameson claims the reason her hair is done up in this episode is because a BBC hairstylist had mistakenly cut six inches off her hair just prior to filming. Her final scene in the story was filmed some five weeks after this incident, by which time her hair had grown long enough to allow her to wear it down for a single scene. ( DCOM: Image of the Fendahl)The scan catches the attention of the Fourth Doctor and Leela when they are pulled down to Earth by it. They set off to find it before it creates a continuum implosion and destroys the planet. They separate and Leela finds the cottage of ‘Mother’ Tyler, a local modern-day witch gifted with psychic powers. The Doctor ends up narrowly avoiding death at the hands of the creature created by the skull, which then kills the leader of a detachment of guards Fendelman has brought in after the death of the hiker, sealing everyone into the priory. Gothic Horror: This was the last time the series did this before being Lighter and Softer under Graham Williams. Thirteen physically separate organisms made up the Fendahl, twelve Fendahleen and the core. Additionally, a High Priestess of the Fendahleen would merge with them to complete the Fendahl creature. ( PROSE: Doctor Who and the Image of the Fendahl) Image of the Fendahl was released to DVD in the UK in April 2009 and in North America in September 2009.

The Doctor discovers " sodium chloride affects conductivity... and prevents control of localised disruption of osmotic pressures". " Salt kills it," clarifies Leela. The more gold paint they put on Wanda Ventham, the more desirable she became. I was disturbed for hours after!" There are good sets, direction and some nice occult imagery. All that really lets it down is the ultimate form of the Fendahl. More than a bit snail like and less than terrifying. The Doctor and Leela decide they must investigate the priory just as Thea switches on the time scanner. A compulsion draws her to the machine and she and the skull seem to merge. Leela splits up from the Doctor and investigates a nearby cottage, where she is fired upon with a shotgun. Meanwhile, the Doctor feels the presence of the same unseen creature who killed the hiker. He finds himself paralysed, unable to run as the creature is about to consume him. There are four thousand million people here on your planet, and if I'm right, within a year, there will just be one left alive. Just one."The Fendahl are defeated, and the Doctor throws the skull into a nearby supernova before getting down to the business of repairing K9. Deleted and Extended Scenes - Material originally cut from Image of the Fendahl is presented here courtesy of a low-quality monochrome video recording production information subtitles which can be displayed while watching the story and give information about it. After Image' is an excellent `making of' feature with a great set of contributors - Louise Jameson and Colin Mapson (Visual Effects) are especially interesting.

A Fendahleen is psycho- telekinetic, giving it the ability to control the muscles of its prey telepathically. I knew nothing about the Fibonacci sequence (apart from that bit in Flatline) or the Titus-Bode Law before this, but knowing such designs exist across the universe, from spiral galaxies to the smallest strand of DNA, is incredible, and makes me want to learn more. That’s a huge achievement in itself. Elaborately balanced between horrific and comedic, "Image of the Fendahl" comes in near the midpoint of Tom Baker's tenure as the Doctor, a justifiably classic phase of the series when those responsible for its making seem confident but not complacent that their efforts will entertain a wide segment of the BBC audience. That is, while a bit murkier and edgier than prior years, this is still "Doctor Who" as the quintessential family show--somehow working on several levels at once. On the simplest and most tangible level we have big slug-like monsters (and, this being the olden days before CGI, I think we should stop a moment and appreciate the inventive craftsmanship that endowed them with a mouthful of squirming writhing tentacles). On an equally thrilling if less visceral level, we have a finely-scripted tale of suspense and mystery. On yet more sophisticated levels yet, all of this is framed and informed by a complex and intriguingly speculative science fiction premise of astronomical scale spanning eons--which might feel overly remote if it didn't all come to a crisis within the familiar context of rural England in the 1970's. And yet all these levels cohere in harmony rather than jarring and grating with each other, which takes astounding storytelling skill if you think about it.Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: The Doctor blowing up the Fendahleen and throwing the Fendahl into a supernova.

Psychic Powers: Mrs Tyler has some psychic powers, due to living on a time fissure for all of her life. Good performances from Uncle Tom who always seems to enjoy himself with a bit of horror and Louise J, whose Leela is always at home with a bona fide monster. Family-Unfriendly Violence: The script concerns the Doctor fighting a manifestation of the death wish itself, with the characters inside the siege struggling with despair and suicidal ideation as a result of its effects, and the Doctor defeats it by blasting it in the face with a shotgun. There's a definite attempt to avoid showing the audience anything too grisly but it somehow makes it even worse. The Doctor says 'We're being dragged towards a relative continuum displacement zone' (his other explanation 'a hole in time' is more understandable). Goofs In ancient and creepy Fetch Priory, deep in the modern-day English countryside, four scientists are delving into the mysteries of the origins of humanity. They have discovered a skull which is 12 million years old, many times older than the first of our species - so who (or what) is it?After history was altered by a force from the future, the Fendahl was able to successfully dupe Reynald, former Earl of Marseille, into summoning it in Jerusalem in 1098, attracted to the destruction caused by the Crusades. It used a bone spear imbued with its life-draining properties to draw nourishment (allowing it to be mistaken for the Lance of Longinus), allowing it to transform him into a Fendahl Core and create several Fendahleen. However, due to the efforts of Simon, a knight of the period, Reynald was aged well into a decrepit state, weakening his ability to command the Fendahl's powers, killing both and banishing the Fendahl. ( PROSE: Deus Le Volt) Salt Solution: Salt is deadly to the Fendahl, and that effectiveness is — in-universe — the origin of the superstition that throwing salt over your shoulder wards off evil. Image of the Fendahl is the third serial of the 15th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 29 October to 19 November 1977. Louise Jameson regards this as one of her best stories due to it being written by Chris Boucher. It was however during the making of this serial that she decided to leave at the end of the series. Fendelman, well you assume is gong to be the villain of the piece – it is a nice feint in the story structure which leaves him as the patsy – his whole life a fiction, manipulated into serving the Fendahl and facilitating its rebirth.



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