Fair enough :) I'm mostly thinking of how much I loathed Planet of the Spiders, which I watched without realising how long it was - have never forgiven it.
Enlightenment is the only Classic Who episode to both be written and directed by women - which is to say, it's something special. Not because women are inherently better or worse at the things, but to make it in the 80s you had to be the best you were at what you did (and then some) to overcome the hiring bias of the day. For a long time, it was the only episode of any Who to be so - but I think a couple of episodes now have that distinction. I definitely think that's why it stands out so much, as being something unusual and different, and putting a lot more thought into how it explores the world than most episodes.
Are you a Blake's 7 person? Fiona Cumming directs all the best episodes of that show too. She's a real hero of mine, capable of taking all sorts of lousy scripts and cheap shows to another level of excellence.
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Date: 2018-03-13 08:53 pm (UTC)Enlightenment is the only Classic Who episode to both be written and directed by women - which is to say, it's something special. Not because women are inherently better or worse at the things, but to make it in the 80s you had to be the best you were at what you did (and then some) to overcome the hiring bias of the day. For a long time, it was the only episode of any Who to be so - but I think a couple of episodes now have that distinction. I definitely think that's why it stands out so much, as being something unusual and different, and putting a lot more thought into how it explores the world than most episodes.
Are you a Blake's 7 person? Fiona Cumming directs all the best episodes of that show too. She's a real hero of mine, capable of taking all sorts of lousy scripts and cheap shows to another level of excellence.