Yes it was our eightieth meet-up for Doctor Who (Oooo! Well done us! Not that we realised at the time!) AND only a couple of weeks since the last one. Mind you we all knew September would be a no-go for all of us trying to meet-up! Even this month's Sundays were a no-go so, to SQUEEZE this story in, we had decided to all meet up on a Friday night! Here is what happened...
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MJ: *Singing* "Paint the whole world with a Rainbow!" *Normal voice* "See I've started now! It's Friday night, we're around Leigh's and we're watching The Android Invasion." *Jason half-heartedly cheers* "Which I've never seen!" *Jason half-heartedly cheers*
Shaun: *To Leigh* "Yeah, can I have a water please?"
Leigh: "Yes."
Shaun: "Make sure you leave that in the edit!" *Your wish is my command, Shaun!*
MJ: "And you join us on the day that 'Good game, good game, I'm dead'."
Jason: "Is he!??"
MJ: "Yes, Bruce Forsythe has died."
Jason: "Awww I didn't know that!"
MJ: "Yeah. It was nice to see him, to see him, nice."
Shaun: *To Jason* "Give me a hug. Come here. Come here."
Mark: "Oh a happier note, Leigh's going to move to America where he can then major in something!"
MJ: *Smiling* "Yeah, 'cos then we can say 'Leigh Majors in... whatever it is!' Doesn't matter what it is because the whole point is the pun! So thanks for reminding me, Mark, for the recording. And this will be the last time we meet around Leigh's house before he moves out, so..."
Jason: "He'll get another house!"
MJ: "No but I mean THIS has been the bachelor pad!"
Mark: "I expected more things to be boxed-up by now."
Shaun: "I expected NONE of that!"
Leigh: *Laughing* "Hey! I'm partway done!"
MJ: I expected Leigh to be boxed-up!"
*Some more nonsense chat*
Shaun: "Why do I hang-out with you scum?! I don't even LIKE Doctor Who!!"
Leigh: "NOBODY likes Doctor Who!!"
*Laughter*
MJ: "We like the quest - no we don't, we just getting to.... I don't know why we're here!?"
Jason: "We've started it, so we've got to finish it now!"
MJ: *Laughing* "We've started and God dammit...!"
Shaun: "Leigh, this one has extra Sarah Jane!"
Leigh: "Oh good. Is she dead yet!?"
Shaun, Mark & MJ: "No!"
Leigh: "But she dies soon, right?"
MJ: "No....errrrr....yeah....."
Jason: "She doesn't die!"
Shaun: "Just look forward to when we're going to watch The Sarah Jane Adventures!"
MJ: "Have we met since Victoria died - the actress Deborah Watling?"
Jason: "I think we have, I think we mentioned it."
Shaun: "I don't remember that."
Mark: "What?"
Jason: "I pretty sure you mentioned it last time."
Mark: "What happened?"
MJ: "The Victorian assistant - Patrick Trougton's Victoria, she died in real-life, yeah."
Leigh: "Oh yeah, 'cos she went to live on an oil-rig."
MJ: *Smiling at Leigh's remembrance of the completely missing story Fury From The Deep that we watched with re-cons* "That's right!"
Leigh: "For seven years!!"
MJ: *Laughs* "Yeah, so Leigh's last time, Bruce Forsyth's last gasp - The Android Invasion! Let's see what it's about!"
Jason: "Mark, Mike TV!"
MJ: *Not knowing why he said it but I repeat after him!* "Mike TV!"
Jason: "Four of them!"
MJ: "So, The Android Invasion! Never seen it - let's see what it's about!"
Jason: "May have seen it - may not have seen it. Don't know."
Leigh: "From, erm whatsit, Willy Wonka."
Mark: "Oh yes, because of the...."
MJ: "What!!?"
Leigh: "Mike TV! From Willy Wonka!"
MJ: *Still no clue* "Oh."
Jason: "They looked a bit Oopma-Loopa or Mike TV-like! I was going with Mike TV."
MJ: *Still no clue* "Fair enough."
Jason: "Only there's four of them."
Leigh: *To MJ* "But you agreed with the Mike TV thing!!? Why did you agree if you didn't know what it was about!?"
Jason: "Because he thought it was his own TV show I was talking about!!" (Yeah the 'M' in MJ is short for Michael/Mike if you didn't know!)
Leigh: *Laughing* "Ohh right!"
MJ: "Yeah! Mike TV!"
Jason: "THIS is Mike TV! We're living in it!"
Mark: "He just answers to his own name!"
Leigh: "Like The Truman Show?"
Shaun: "Yeah. Only MUCH worse!"
*MJ and Mark laugh*
Jason: *Reading Episode One titles - which have just started* "Terry Nation!"
MJ: "Terry Nation non-Dalek story!"
Leigh: "I used to live in Terry Nation."
Jason: "I lived on Terry-Nation Street..."
Mark: "Is this because he was trying to replace the Daleks by having a sitcom with them?"
MJ: *Seeing a soldier on-screen in a familiar uniform* "UNIT! So UNIT are back."
Shaun: "So this is going to START with UNIT dying!?"
MJ: "Fantastic!"
Leigh: "No. It's clearly a robot!"
MJ: "Okay. Well let's see - Part One."
Photo 1: At Leigh's house.
Mark (eyes closed), MJ (with the sign),
Jason (pulling a great face with the DVD case)
& Leigh (eyes also closed).
Mark (eyes closed), MJ (with the sign),
Jason (pulling a great face with the DVD case)
& Leigh (eyes also closed).
*EPISODE ONE GETS WATCHED*
Jason: "Good face!"
MJ: "Good face, yeah." *Reading end credits* "Milton Johns."
Jason: "Milton Johns gives good face."
MJ: "He's in it with an eye-patch. He's been in many Doctor Who's before (actually he was only in one Patrick Troughton story before - and he will be in another Tom Baker in the future!) - that was a cracking first episode! I really enjoyed that one!"
Jason: *Smiling* "I can't tell if you are being sarcastic!?"
MJ: "No I'm not! No I really did! I thought it was good."
Jason: "It was alright."
Shaun: "I enjoyed it until they got to the military installation and then I kind of lost interest."
MJ: "So UNIT's mentioned - but they're not actually in it."
Jason: "But their office is!"
MJ: "Yeah, Lethbridge-Stewart -"
Shaun: "- I'm assuming the eye-patch guy (Guy Crayford - played by Milton Johns) is UNIT?"
MJ: "I don't know? He seemed quite bad."
Jason: "Well, we shall see!"
Shaun: "We shall!"
Jason: "At the moment we don't know!"
MJ: "There's a village pub full of - well, we assume androids as it's called The Android Invasion!"
Jason: "No, they're just anti-social arseholes!"
*Shaun laughs*
MJ: "They froze and then - "
Shaun: "Well that's a typical country pub!"
Jason: "At eight o'clock they come to life!"
MJ: "Yes, at eight o'clock they came to life."
Jason: "Happy hour."
MJ: "And Sarah Jane TRIED to make conversation but they weren't interested. So, pretty much, yeah."
Jason: "She tried to not fall off a mountain."
MJ: *Laughing* "Oh yes! And failed. Ridiculous!"
Jason:*Laughing* "Well, I say 'mountain'. I mean 'verge'!"
MJ: *Laughing* "A slight incline!
Jason: "Part Two!"
Photo 2: At Leigh's house.
Mark (looking at DVD case), Shaun (with the sign),
Jason & Leigh (with Cthulhu).
Photo 2: At Leigh's house.
Mark (looking at DVD case), Shaun (with the sign),
Jason & Leigh (with Cthulhu).
*EPISODE TWO GETS WATCHED*
MJ: "End of Part Two and Sarah Jane's face fell off!!" *Leigh laughs* "Like in that film Face Off!" *Laughs*
Jason: "JUST like in the film..." *Reading end credits* "Milton Johns!"
MJ: "But it wasn't really Sarah Jane it was an android who had taken her over - but I think we all knew that."
Jason: "We don't know that!!"
*Laughter*
MJ: "We do know! We've SEEN it!!"
Shaun: "No! She was an android all along!!"
Jason: "Yes!"
MJ: "Oh I see what you mean!"
Jason: "She comes storming into a UNIT centre liked she runs the place - ages ago. Some story about her Aunt!"
*MJ laughs*
Shaun: "What?!"
Jason: "That's how she got into UNIT in the first place! 'Cos her Aunt worked there. Aunt something."
Leigh: "Aunt Mildred?"
Jason: "Aunt Flo. Anyway..." *Reading end credits* "Philip Hinchcliffe! Barry Letts."
Leigh: "The important thing is, that Sarah's face just fell off!"
*Laughter*
MJ: "Face Off!"
Jason: "She didn't have gun-hand - as we discussed."
Leigh: "No, instead she had a gun, in her hand!" *Laughs*
Jason: "Or was it a lighter!? Who knows?"
MJ: "Or gammy hand."
Jason: "I'm enjoying it!"
MJ: "I am!"
Jason: "I know I've seen it before - but it's good. Can't remember how it ends though."
MJ: "I was really pleased to see Harry back in it! Even if it is an android Harry."
Jason: "Can't tell the difference!"
MJ: "And Benton, of course! I knew it was UNIT but I didn't know who was going to be in it. I didn't THINK the Brigadier was going to be in it." *Going outside and seeing Leigh's fence is down* "Oh it's like that film: Fence Off!" *Laughs*
Jason: "I wonder if we see Benton again - or if THAT'S his only contribution to this saga?"
MJ: "Probably." *To Leigh, about the fence* "So what happened there? Well next door's garden looks wild so it's probably attacking. Is it Triffids?"
Leigh: "Triffids - yeah."
MJ: "Yeah, it usually is."
Leigh: "Can't move for them around here."
MJ: "Bastards."
Leigh: "They are."
Jason: "We seem to have lost a Mark, but gained a cat!"
Shaun: "Two."
Shaun: "Two."
Jason: "Two cats?"
Shaun: "There's one in the bush over there."
Shaun: "There's one in the bush over there."
Jason: "I said bush - that's not a cat."
Leigh: "You can tell the difference?"
MJ: "You remind me of the 'Why My Cat Is Sad' cat."
Jason: "But you have a dog?"
MJ: "No there's a thing: 'Why My Cat Is Sad' - it's a meme thing. Anyway -" *Laughs* "Are you enjoying this so far, Shaun?"
Jason: *Misunderstanding for comic effect* "It's a great cigarette!"
Shaun: "It's all right."
Jason: "What's not to like? It's the right side of crap for me!"
Shaun: "Oh fair enough - it's not quite there for me."
MJ: "I'm really enjoying this one."
Leigh: "I'm enjoying Sarah Jane's face falling off!"
*MJ laughs*
Shaun: *Smiling* "I liked that!" *Leigh laughs* "One of my favourite things so far, right, you've got two aliens, right, and one of them has got quite a closed mouth and the other one has quite an open mouth. Through the open mouth you can ACTUALLY see the actor's mouth and beard underneath it!"
Jason: "No, that's like the alien from Alien!"
Shaun: "No it isn't! No, it isn't." *Laughter*
Jason: "Just happened to look like Double-Mouth Man."
MJ: *Laughing* "Wasn't he in Happy Days?! Mouth Mouth!?"
Jason: "Ralph Mouth?"
MJ: *Laughing* "Oh Ralph Mouth - not Mouth Mouth!"
Shaun: "I liked the first episode a lot more than the second."
Jason: "Fun fact for you - do you remember what Ralph Mouth's dad was called in Happy Days?"
MJ: "No I don't?"
Leigh: "Alf."
Jason: "Mickey."
MJ: "Mickey Mouth!?" *Laughing* "Thath great!"
Jason: "He was a dentist. We've talked a lot about Happy Days in this story!"
*Leigh laughs*
Shaun: "It's because the Fonz was in, erm, horse nose!" (I honestly have NO idea what that sentence even means!!) I was hoping it was going to go a lot more Plan 9 From Outer Space (a 1959 Ed Wood horror/sci-fi movie) from there, but it didn't. 'Cos that acting was awful."
Jason: "Well I like it so far, because like a lot of episodes I can see what they are trying to do and I appreciate that. And the things they are not quite achieving I'm finding very funny."
MJ: "Mm."
Jason: "Like... walking!" *Laughter* "Falling down a hill."
Mark: "Yeah."
Jason: "Emoting. Keeping her face on."
MJ: "I think the secondary characters are amusing me - all the people who are androids. I dunno, I like it."
Jason: "The Pub Landlord - he's alright."
MJ: "How about you, yourself, Mark? Are you enjoying this story at all?"
Mark: "Erm, yes in the same way Jason is actually!" *Laughs*
Shaun: "Ahh dammit! It needs to be, like, another three percent crapper and then I would like it! I mean if one of those skeletal androids starts walking then I am a hundred percent into this! Nine out of ten!"
*MJ Laughs*
Mark: "That's right."
Shaun: *Smiling* "But it just needs one of them to walk and I am back in the room!"
*Mark Laughs*
MJ: "I mean Sarah being an android - I think we guessed that quite early on. I had seen that cliffhanger on a clip-show, so i knew that was coming, unfortunately. But I think it is quite obvious throughout that she was going to be."
Mark: "It was quite obvious from the start, yeah. And, like, their attempt at not letting you know who's who -"
Shaun: "- Was terrible."
Mark: "Was terrible, yeah. 'Cos they didn't actually show her getting captured - but she was obviously captured."
MJ: "Yeah, yeah."
Mark: "They could have had her on a stretcher and be like 'Oh has she been captured? Is that another one? Did she actually escape?'"
Jason: "You've got to have a mystery for a second! There was a bit of a mystery!"
Mark: "Yeah but then they tied her down! Why would you do that to an android?..."
Shaun: "My favourite thing, so far, has been me and Mark likening this to other sci-fi - BETTER sci-fi!"
*Laughter*
Jason: "Hang about - what about denim guy? Eye-patch, denim guy (Guy Crayford)?"
MJ: "Oh yeah, Milton Johns!"
Jason: "Yeah, he was trapped first - and he wasn't happy about it. So did they (the aliens) re-programme him or something?"
Mark: "Yeah they were taking, like, aggression from his mind, or something."
*MJ Laughs*
Mark: "That's right."
Shaun: *Smiling* "But it just needs one of them to walk and I am back in the room!"
*Mark Laughs*
MJ: "I mean Sarah being an android - I think we guessed that quite early on. I had seen that cliffhanger on a clip-show, so i knew that was coming, unfortunately. But I think it is quite obvious throughout that she was going to be."
Mark: "It was quite obvious from the start, yeah. And, like, their attempt at not letting you know who's who -"
Shaun: "- Was terrible."
Mark: "Was terrible, yeah. 'Cos they didn't actually show her getting captured - but she was obviously captured."
MJ: "Yeah, yeah."
Mark: "They could have had her on a stretcher and be like 'Oh has she been captured? Is that another one? Did she actually escape?'"
Jason: "You've got to have a mystery for a second! There was a bit of a mystery!"
Mark: "Yeah but then they tied her down! Why would you do that to an android?..."
Shaun: "My favourite thing, so far, has been me and Mark likening this to other sci-fi - BETTER sci-fi!"
*Laughter*
Jason: "Hang about - what about denim guy? Eye-patch, denim guy (Guy Crayford)?"
MJ: "Oh yeah, Milton Johns!"
Jason: "Yeah, he was trapped first - and he wasn't happy about it. So did they (the aliens) re-programme him or something?"
Mark: "Yeah they were taking, like, aggression from his mind, or something."
Jason: "So he developed a conscience or something?"
Mark: "Yeah, no..."
MJ: "I think he might be a real person (as opposed to an android)."
Mark: "He was a real person 'cos he disappeared. He went into space and he disappeared."
Jason: "I thought he was an alien - not an alien, an android."
MJ: "I don't think that this is Earth because they say the trees are plastic."
Mark: "It's not Earth."
MJ: "Yeah, so it looks like Earth but it's not."
Jason: "I think it's The Doctor having a laugh!" *MJ laughs* "'Cos we all know oak trees only grow on Earth."
MJ: *Laughs* "Even plastic ones? You can make them and put them anywhere! You can put them on Uranus if you want..." *Laughs* "Although you can't, 'cos it's a gas giant and it would just...."
Jason: "What, my anus?!"
Mark: *Laughing* "His anus!?"
*Laughter*
Shaun: "We've all smelled it Jason - don't pretend!"
MJ: "I have to sit next to you, so..." *Laughter* "Banter."
Jason: "From little acorns...big gusts do form!"
MJ: "AND The Doctor's drinking ginger beer, so there you go."
Jason: "Which is lovely apparently."
MJ: "Which is made by Jason. It's beer, made by Jason. Ginger. Beer. And on THAT bomb-shell, I'm going to stop."
Shaun: "No, no wait!"
Shaun & MJ together: "I have an important Doctor Who thing to say!"
Shaun & MJ together: "I have an important Doctor Who thing to say!"
*Laughter*
Shaun: "And I actually DO this time!"
Leigh: "No you actually don't!"
Shaun: "I do! I do!"
Mark: "It's not important is it?"
Shaun: *Smiling* "It IS a legitimately important Doctor Who thing to say!"
Mark: *Laughing* "Is it legitimately important?"
Shaun: "YES! Will you all ALLOW me to say - "
Jason: "- You have to give it a level of importance. Legitimate importance."
Shaun: "Oh, it's off the scale - it's OVER nine thousand! It's well off the scale!"
MJ: *Laughs and does a Mavic Chen impression* "You Daleks don't believe that Shaun is the TRUE master!" *Normal voice* "I'm doing a Mavic Chen."
Shaun: "He is. Now are people going to be quiet and let me say my important Doctor Who thing!?"
MJ: "Yes."
Shaun: "We done? Right..... we're watching Doctor Who today!"
MJ: "Right. Brilliant. Brilliant. I could see you lot didn't believe him but I was actually thinking 'He probably DOES have something important to say... but no, he's an arse!"
*Laughter*
Shaun: "I got two minutes out of that!" *Then some nonsense talk about my hair and a play I was going to be I'm. But Shaun then ACTUALLY talks about Doctor Who!* "Speaking of Doctor Who, actually, me and Jason were having a debate as to whether we liked Sarah Jane's outfit."
Jason: "Oh!"
Shaun: "'Cos we like The Doctor's new coat -"
MJ: "- Yeah that was quite smart!"
Mark: "Yeah we DO like The Doctor's new coat."
Jason: "I like his coat. Her outfit? I'm not keen on the colour." (Which was pink)
Shaun: "Oh yeah, yeah. No, no, I thought you were talking about his coat."
Jason: "If it was a blue or a white or a -"
Shaun: "- Green."
Jason: "Less green! No, 'cos I'd never see her then!"
Shaun: *Laughing* "Yeah, in all those trees!"
Jason: "She's just be a head!"
MJ: "Oh, so you don't like the pink colour? No I don't think it's all that great."
Jason: "No I've never been a fan of fleshy-coloured clothing."
Shaun: "To be fair, Jason makes a good point, that it makes her stand out against the background a lot. It's probably why they gave The Doctor a light coat as well."
MJ: "I don't see Sarah Jane as someone who would wear pink things. I don't know..."
Shaun: "But she's wearing a pink thing! So, YES she would! Your statement is incorrect!"
Jason: "She has in the past and she does in the future as well."
MJ: "This is MANLY Doctor Who chat!" *Laughs*
Mark: "The character's whatever the writer's done that day."
Shaun: "Yeah."
MJ: "No, no I'm not on about the character I'm on about the costume really."
Mark: "Yeah she wouldn't wear pink, but she is a girlie character this time around."
Jason: "She is the most fashion-concious one we ever get."
Shaun: "What about Dodo? For the three minutes she was in it! She was supposed to be a proper hip young girl."
Jason: "Prior to probably Clara, she probably got more outfits in the end."
Shaun: "Yeah, Clara got a lot of outfits. Well Amy Pond got a lot of outfits including the police kissagram one..."
MJ: "It's only later that companions (in the classic series) that seem to stick to one outfit. Okay then, Part Three."
*EPISODE THREE GETS WATCHED*
Photo 3: At Leigh's house.
Mark (eyes nearly closed), MJ (with the sign),
Jason (eyes closed with the DVD case)
& Leigh (with Cthulhu).
Mark (eyes nearly closed), MJ (with the sign),
Jason (eyes closed with the DVD case)
& Leigh (with Cthulhu).
MJ: "End of Part Three and Roy 'Skeleton' (Skelton) was in it! Erm, and then a rocket and Sarah's pulling a face 'cos of g-force."
Jason: "Such pulling a Wallace face." (From the animated "Wallace And Gromit" films)
Jason: "Such pulling a Wallace face." (From the animated "Wallace And Gromit" films)
MJ: "But that's not ALL that happened! There was other stuff!"
Shaun: "There were NO other things!"
*Leigh laughs*
Jason: "There were other things."
Shaun: *Smiling* "We just watched twenty-five minutes of her pulling a g-force face!"
Leigh: "There was a long debate about shoes... and socks... and where did they go..."
Jason: *Laughs* "She had stripey stockings or socks or tights or something."
MJ: "We had stock-footage of a rocket! What more do you want!?" *Laughs*
Leigh: "Which we know, from sixties movies, means 'sex'!"
*Laughter*
Jason: "There was electrical conducting."
MJ: "There was!"
Shaun: "Electrical shenanigans."
Jason: "Oh yes."
Shaun: "There was a virus!"
MJ: "There was, errr -"
Jason: "- There was a tray!" *Laughter* "Cocktails - she really drank the water, but then she DIDN'T drink the water!" *Laughter*
MJ: *Laughing* "Don't need to say more - that was brilliant! Part Four"
*Leigh laughs*
Jason: "There were other things."
Shaun: *Smiling* "We just watched twenty-five minutes of her pulling a g-force face!"
Leigh: "There was a long debate about shoes... and socks... and where did they go..."
Jason: *Laughs* "She had stripey stockings or socks or tights or something."
MJ: "We had stock-footage of a rocket! What more do you want!?" *Laughs*
Leigh: "Which we know, from sixties movies, means 'sex'!"
*Laughter*
Jason: "There was electrical conducting."
MJ: "There was!"
Shaun: "Electrical shenanigans."
Jason: "Oh yes."
Shaun: "There was a virus!"
MJ: "There was, errr -"
Jason: "- There was a tray!" *Laughter* "Cocktails - she really drank the water, but then she DIDN'T drink the water!" *Laughter*
MJ: *Laughing* "Don't need to say more - that was brilliant! Part Four"
*EPISODE FOUR GETS WATCHED*
Photo 4: At Leigh's house.
Mark (looking at DVD case), Shaun (hiding behind the sign),
a blurry Action-Jason & Leigh (with Cthulhu).
Mark (looking at DVD case), Shaun (hiding behind the sign),
a blurry Action-Jason & Leigh (with Cthulhu).
MJ: "And that was The Android Invasion! That was good fun. Did you enjoy that?"
Jason: "I need to get tissues, excuse me."
MJ: "I said it was 'Fun' - I didn't say it was THAT fun!"
*Mark chuckles*
Jason: "Yeah. I enjoyed that more than I thought I was going to!"
MJ: "Mm. Me too."
Jason: "Yeah it was alright."
Leigh: "It was fine. Wasn't Earth-shattering, was it!?"
Jason: "It did! It shattered my Earth! I enjoyed it a LOT, actually! I'm going to give it quite a high score! I found it entertaining, I thought the bad bits were funny and the good bits were enjoyable."
MJ: "I enjoyed the confusion as to whether he was the real Doctor or not."
Jason: *Smiling* "There was NO confusion at all!"
*Leigh laughs*
MJ: "No I seemed to guess it straight away. But, err, Benton was in it!" *The DVD menu is re-playing scenes* "I'm glad we didn't watch this before as it would have given it away!"
Mark: "It would have ruined it!"
Jason: "And that! He dives through a window!!"
Shaun: "Yeah the diving through the window, with the terribly over-the-top stock glass-shattering sound in it!"
MJ: "Ohhh yeah! That's right. That was funny."
Shaun: "That was great."
Mark: "That was great. I always like someone diving through a window."
MJ: *Smiling* "It's always like when you hear the ricochet sound when people are firing guns (in old TV shows and films)."
Jason: "Good set-design. Apart from that fire-escape. That was a bit rubbish."
*Leigh sniggers*
MJ: "What about the aliens, with the little rhino-horns and stuff?"
Jaosn: "Forget the aliens! What about the cream phones?!"
Leigh: *Ignoring Jason, in a bored voice* "They were fine."
Jason: "They were great!"
Leigh: "They were FINE!"
Jason: "They were really - I mean, yes you could see it was a mask, but for THAT time!"
Shaun: "No! That is a step-down from a lot of what we have had."
Jason: "That is almost up there with, err -"
MJ: "Your mum."
*Mark laughs*
Jason: "Oh why can't I think of words!?? I keep wanting to say Zoolander! The Zygons! And the other ones which look a bit sh*t but kind of work is the Potato Head ones."
Mark: "The Sultanas..."
Shaun: *Laughing* "'Sultanas', yeah!"
Leigh: "It is better than The Sultanas - I'll give you that!"
Mark: "No, the Sultanas were better than those rhino-things."
Jason: "The Sontarans they look a bit, you know, 'mongy' and they look like they've got a mask on but then you go 'Look it's a clone - they're supposed to look a bit sh*t'."
MJ: "You can't say 'mongy'!"
Jason: "But I would put them between Zoolanders and Sultanas!"
*Laughter*
Leigh: "That a good scale you have here!"
Jason: "I thought they were pretty good! I liked the fact that the MORE I looked at them, the MORE I liked them! Elephant Man, Rhino horn, bit Planet of The Apes - "
MJ: "- Yes! With the talking! -"
Jason: "- Little bit Muppet."
Mark: "Are you talking TV show Planet of The Apes? 'Cos the film was actually better make-up. The TV show it was just crap."
Jason: "You can still see the - I mean they're talking through the mask with the lips not quite going, yeah?"
Mark: "Yeah."
Jason: "Except for, obviously Roddy McDowall. He had the proper mask."
MJ: "And then we had one-eyed Milton Jones - who I can't think what his name was in this story - no, not Milton Jones! He's a comedian, isn't he?"
Mark: "Yeah."
Shaun: "Yes."
Leigh: "Milton Johns!"
Jason: *Smiling* "He SHOULD have been played by Milton Jones!"
MJ: *Laughs* "He wasn't blind in the end - well in one eye - he didn't really need the eye patch. He was pretending." (Well he was tricked by the aliens that it was missing! He wasn't aware!)
Mark: "And he never took it off for two years!"
MJ: *Laughing* "Never took it off for two years! He hadn't realised!"
Mark: "He'd not washed behind there..."
Jason: "He did, but only at night!"
Mark: *Laughing* "Only at night, when it was dark!"
Jason: "He didn't want to get soap in his eyes so he always shut his eyes when he did that!"
Mark: *Laughing* "But he didn't have an eye to get soap in?!"
Jason: "He had an eye!"
Mark: "No, but he DID have an eye but he didn't THINK he had an eye to get soap in!"
Leigh: "No he had TWO eyes!"
Mark: "What!!?"
Leigh: "There was ONE eye and then there was the eye under the eye patch - that's two eyes!"
Mark: "Yes I know! He had two eyes! But he thought he had one!"
MJ: "But how did he smell!? Oh no that's...." *Laughter* "But yes I thought that was great - I think if I watched it again I would enjoy it even more."
Photo 5: At Leigh's house.
Mark, MJ (with the sign),
Jason (with the blurry DVD case)
& Leigh (with Cthulhu).
Jason: "Well I've seen this before so I've enjoyed it even more!"
Shaun: *Laughing* "Yes we keep banging on over the top of it!"
Leigh: *Laughing* "About whether spots and stripes got together!"
*MJ laughs*
Jason: "Well, they don't! That's the answer to that! Particularly in flesh colours!"
Shaun: "The Fashion Five!"
Mark: "It's possible, without us talking over the top, there was a reason why they had two plans."
Shaun: "Yeah."
Leigh: "They didn't have two plans?"
Mark: "Yeah, they had the virus plan and the android plan. And the android plan is like pointless when you've got the virus plan!"
*Leigh laughs*
MJ: "Yeah that's a good point, because the aliens were going to release a virus on Earth, so why - "
Mark: "- Did they need the androids?"
Leigh: "The androids were there to make them biscuits and tea."
Mark: *Chuckling* "Well that makes sense - that's fine!"
*Leigh laughs*
Jason: "No, because they made the fake English village to test it - "
Mark: "- In which they spent TWO YEARS testing the android plan!"
Jason: "Well if you're going to test an English village you've got to make fake people to go in an English village to test it on the fake people! So they thought 'Oh we'll just use those'."
Leigh: "Yeah, so why did they take the fake people? I'm with Mark now! I don't think there WAS two plans! If there clearly was two plans then one was superfluous!"
Jason: "'Cos now you've got some fake people you may as well use them!"
MJ: "Yeah..."
Jason: "To infiltrate the ACTUAL people!"
Mark: "I mean they've wasted two years of their lives..."
Leigh: "Couldn't they drop the virus from space?"
Jason: "No, 'cos it doesn't work on that kind of virus - it's slush. It's a Slush Puppy that they have to physically roll in!"
*Laughter*
Shaun: *Smiling* "I did notice that!"
MJ: "Could they not have abducted some real humans and put them into a fake village, without them realising? And have them live their life?"
Leigh: "Well they did abduct a real human."
Mark: "Yeah."
MJ: "Just one."
Leigh: "Yeah. Well there weren't that many in space at the time..." *Laughs*
Jason: "What they could have done was make a proper virus, abduct one real human, give them the virus and put THAT human BACK on Earth again."
Shaun: "Yeah. I thought their thing was going to be, like, they give him (Guy Crayford) the virus - once he is getting redy to get back to Earth they give him the virus and when he gets out.... but no, they just drop those robots down and -"
Jason: "- No 'cos they'd put him in quarantine.... I don't know if that's an answer."
MJ: "Well, I'd like to say I'm really impressed with that!"
*Laughter*
Jason: "I'm not saying there are no flaws! But I did enjoy it! In fact I'll give it more because of the flaws! It opened up with someone rolling down a SLIGHT incline!"
*Laughter*
Leigh: "FALLING down a slight incline!"
Mark: "No, fell down a cliff!"
Jason: "And hanging."
Leigh: "Lying!"
Jason: "Gripping, whilst lying! And being saved from such a slight ramp! So my expectations were lowered and everything after that was just Muppets galore!"
*Laughter*
Photo 6: At Leigh's house.
MJ: "I'm going to give that a nine!"
Shaun: "F**king hell!?"
MJ: "I know!"
Shaun: "A nine??!"
Jason: "I have been tempted to say 'nine'. I'm going to go..." *Slowly* "...eight...point...seven."
MJ: *Laughing* "Okay!"
Jason: "I enjoyed it!"
MJ: "No, I did too!"
Shaun: "Fair enough. I'm going to go five."
MJ: "Five? Oo you didn't at all."
Shaun: "It was fine." *Someone boos and Shaun smiles and shouts back* "No, that is perfectly acceptable!!" *Mark laughs*
Jason: "Average."
Mark: "It's average - it's in the middle."
Shaun: "It's not that I DIDN'T enjoy it at all! It's that it's average - right in the middle. Wasn't great - wasn't bad!"
MJ: "I can't think what you gave to Pyramids Of Mars now?"
Shaun: "One hundred and seven out of five!"
*Laughter*
MJ: "Leigh and Mark?"
Mark: "Erm, I give that a seven."
MJ: "Seven, that's good, yeah."
Jason: "Better than average!"
Leigh: "I'm going to give it six and that's only because of Milton Johns."
*Laughter*
Jason: "Yeah I like Milton Johns in everything."
MJ: "Yes he's always good fun. What does The Book say, Jason?"
Jason: *Dropping The Book* "Oh f**k!"
Shaun: "The Book says 'Oh f**k'?! It's aggressive this week!"
Mark: *Chuckling* "It IS aggressive this week!"
Jason: "Seventeen Milton Johns were used."
*Laughter*
MJ: "Oh it just says 'Milton Johns' over and over again!"
*Jason spends ages to find the page - then gets to it, pauses and sighs*
Leigh: *Laughing* "Jason's forgotten how to read!"
Shaun: *Smiling* "It's alright! This is valuable recording MJ can be doing!"
Jason: *Reading from The Book* "'The quaint English village of Devesham seems to be populated by alien-controlled zombies - dot, dot, dot. East Hagbourne and the nearby National Radiological Protection Board of Harwell, both in Oxfordshire, stood in for Devesham and the Space Defence Station. Three rhinocerotic (although Jason reads it as 'Rhinocentric'!) Kraal costumes were made'-" *Cheers from group* "-'with masks sculpted by Lauri Warburton.'"
MJ: "Oh. Never heard of them! Is he in-bread?...."
Jason: "I think it's a female." *Reading from The Book* "'Verdict: Eeerie, with a tangible sense of dislocation, this is an effective stab at something other than Gothic horror'."
Shaun: "What?!"
Leigh: "Yeah, you can't move for Gothic Horror!"
Jason: *Reading from The Book* "'Unfortunately, any mystery is made redundant by the title. Seven out of ten!'" *Slams The Book shut*
MJ: "Oh okay. Well then, join us next time for another story!"
Jason: "The Brain Of Morbius!"
MJ: "The Brain Of Morbius - I think you'll probably like that one."
Shaun: "I already like it - that is a GOOD title!"
MJ: "If you like Frankenstein-esque kind of things then you should."
Jason: "I like SOME-bius. But I like MOR-bius..."
Leigh: "God!"
Jason: "I'm going to do that joke again next time!"
*Shaun laughs*
MJ: "And on THAT joke! Bye bye for now!"
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So that was that then! Always end on a joke! Except that we add my dry bit about scores - which were:
Which
gave us an average 7.14 of out of 10.
So average to good for that one. And the end of an era as it was the last story we would watch at Leigh's house. He has since moved into a new house with his lady, Jemma (who watched Planet of The Daleks with us!). Okay I write this end bit as we have finished this season! So I'd best scoot and start typing up those....
Until then I shall return, yes, I shall return...
Jason: "I need to get tissues, excuse me."
MJ: "I said it was 'Fun' - I didn't say it was THAT fun!"
*Mark chuckles*
Jason: "Yeah. I enjoyed that more than I thought I was going to!"
MJ: "Mm. Me too."
Jason: "Yeah it was alright."
Leigh: "It was fine. Wasn't Earth-shattering, was it!?"
Jason: "It did! It shattered my Earth! I enjoyed it a LOT, actually! I'm going to give it quite a high score! I found it entertaining, I thought the bad bits were funny and the good bits were enjoyable."
MJ: "I enjoyed the confusion as to whether he was the real Doctor or not."
Jason: *Smiling* "There was NO confusion at all!"
*Leigh laughs*
MJ: "No I seemed to guess it straight away. But, err, Benton was in it!" *The DVD menu is re-playing scenes* "I'm glad we didn't watch this before as it would have given it away!"
Mark: "It would have ruined it!"
Jason: "And that! He dives through a window!!"
Shaun: "Yeah the diving through the window, with the terribly over-the-top stock glass-shattering sound in it!"
MJ: "Ohhh yeah! That's right. That was funny."
Shaun: "That was great."
Mark: "That was great. I always like someone diving through a window."
MJ: *Smiling* "It's always like when you hear the ricochet sound when people are firing guns (in old TV shows and films)."
Jason: "Good set-design. Apart from that fire-escape. That was a bit rubbish."
*Leigh sniggers*
MJ: "What about the aliens, with the little rhino-horns and stuff?"
Jaosn: "Forget the aliens! What about the cream phones?!"
Leigh: *Ignoring Jason, in a bored voice* "They were fine."
Jason: "They were great!"
Leigh: "They were FINE!"
Jason: "They were really - I mean, yes you could see it was a mask, but for THAT time!"
Shaun: "No! That is a step-down from a lot of what we have had."
Jason: "That is almost up there with, err -"
MJ: "Your mum."
*Mark laughs*
Jason: "Oh why can't I think of words!?? I keep wanting to say Zoolander! The Zygons! And the other ones which look a bit sh*t but kind of work is the Potato Head ones."
Mark: "The Sultanas..."
Shaun: *Laughing* "'Sultanas', yeah!"
Leigh: "It is better than The Sultanas - I'll give you that!"
Mark: "No, the Sultanas were better than those rhino-things."
Jason: "The Sontarans they look a bit, you know, 'mongy' and they look like they've got a mask on but then you go 'Look it's a clone - they're supposed to look a bit sh*t'."
MJ: "You can't say 'mongy'!"
Jason: "But I would put them between Zoolanders and Sultanas!"
*Laughter*
Leigh: "That a good scale you have here!"
Jason: "I thought they were pretty good! I liked the fact that the MORE I looked at them, the MORE I liked them! Elephant Man, Rhino horn, bit Planet of The Apes - "
MJ: "- Yes! With the talking! -"
Jason: "- Little bit Muppet."
Mark: "Are you talking TV show Planet of The Apes? 'Cos the film was actually better make-up. The TV show it was just crap."
Jason: "You can still see the - I mean they're talking through the mask with the lips not quite going, yeah?"
Mark: "Yeah."
Jason: "Except for, obviously Roddy McDowall. He had the proper mask."
MJ: "And then we had one-eyed Milton Jones - who I can't think what his name was in this story - no, not Milton Jones! He's a comedian, isn't he?"
Mark: "Yeah."
Shaun: "Yes."
Leigh: "Milton Johns!"
Jason: *Smiling* "He SHOULD have been played by Milton Jones!"
MJ: *Laughs* "He wasn't blind in the end - well in one eye - he didn't really need the eye patch. He was pretending." (Well he was tricked by the aliens that it was missing! He wasn't aware!)
Mark: "And he never took it off for two years!"
MJ: *Laughing* "Never took it off for two years! He hadn't realised!"
Mark: "He'd not washed behind there..."
Jason: "He did, but only at night!"
Mark: *Laughing* "Only at night, when it was dark!"
Jason: "He didn't want to get soap in his eyes so he always shut his eyes when he did that!"
Mark: *Laughing* "But he didn't have an eye to get soap in?!"
Jason: "He had an eye!"
Mark: "No, but he DID have an eye but he didn't THINK he had an eye to get soap in!"
Leigh: "No he had TWO eyes!"
Mark: "What!!?"
Leigh: "There was ONE eye and then there was the eye under the eye patch - that's two eyes!"
Mark: "Yes I know! He had two eyes! But he thought he had one!"
MJ: "But how did he smell!? Oh no that's...." *Laughter* "But yes I thought that was great - I think if I watched it again I would enjoy it even more."
Photo 5: At Leigh's house.
Mark, MJ (with the sign),
Jason (with the blurry DVD case)
& Leigh (with Cthulhu).
Jason: "Well I've seen this before so I've enjoyed it even more!"
Shaun: *Laughing* "Yes we keep banging on over the top of it!"
Leigh: *Laughing* "About whether spots and stripes got together!"
*MJ laughs*
Jason: "Well, they don't! That's the answer to that! Particularly in flesh colours!"
Shaun: "The Fashion Five!"
Mark: "It's possible, without us talking over the top, there was a reason why they had two plans."
Shaun: "Yeah."
Leigh: "They didn't have two plans?"
Mark: "Yeah, they had the virus plan and the android plan. And the android plan is like pointless when you've got the virus plan!"
*Leigh laughs*
MJ: "Yeah that's a good point, because the aliens were going to release a virus on Earth, so why - "
Mark: "- Did they need the androids?"
Leigh: "The androids were there to make them biscuits and tea."
Mark: *Chuckling* "Well that makes sense - that's fine!"
*Leigh laughs*
Jason: "No, because they made the fake English village to test it - "
Mark: "- In which they spent TWO YEARS testing the android plan!"
Jason: "Well if you're going to test an English village you've got to make fake people to go in an English village to test it on the fake people! So they thought 'Oh we'll just use those'."
Leigh: "Yeah, so why did they take the fake people? I'm with Mark now! I don't think there WAS two plans! If there clearly was two plans then one was superfluous!"
Jason: "'Cos now you've got some fake people you may as well use them!"
MJ: "Yeah..."
Jason: "To infiltrate the ACTUAL people!"
Mark: "I mean they've wasted two years of their lives..."
Leigh: "Couldn't they drop the virus from space?"
Jason: "No, 'cos it doesn't work on that kind of virus - it's slush. It's a Slush Puppy that they have to physically roll in!"
*Laughter*
Shaun: *Smiling* "I did notice that!"
MJ: "Could they not have abducted some real humans and put them into a fake village, without them realising? And have them live their life?"
Leigh: "Well they did abduct a real human."
Mark: "Yeah."
MJ: "Just one."
Leigh: "Yeah. Well there weren't that many in space at the time..." *Laughs*
Jason: "What they could have done was make a proper virus, abduct one real human, give them the virus and put THAT human BACK on Earth again."
Shaun: "Yeah. I thought their thing was going to be, like, they give him (Guy Crayford) the virus - once he is getting redy to get back to Earth they give him the virus and when he gets out.... but no, they just drop those robots down and -"
Jason: "- No 'cos they'd put him in quarantine.... I don't know if that's an answer."
MJ: "Well, I'd like to say I'm really impressed with that!"
*Laughter*
Jason: "I'm not saying there are no flaws! But I did enjoy it! In fact I'll give it more because of the flaws! It opened up with someone rolling down a SLIGHT incline!"
*Laughter*
Leigh: "FALLING down a slight incline!"
Mark: "No, fell down a cliff!"
Jason: "And hanging."
Leigh: "Lying!"
Jason: "Gripping, whilst lying! And being saved from such a slight ramp! So my expectations were lowered and everything after that was just Muppets galore!"
*Laughter*
Photo 6: At Leigh's house.
Mark (eyes closed), MJ (with the sign),
Jason (with the DVD case)
& Leigh (waving with Cthulhu).
Jason (with the DVD case)
& Leigh (waving with Cthulhu).
MJ: "I'm going to give that a nine!"
Shaun: "F**king hell!?"
MJ: "I know!"
Shaun: "A nine??!"
Jason: "I have been tempted to say 'nine'. I'm going to go..." *Slowly* "...eight...point...seven."
MJ: *Laughing* "Okay!"
Jason: "I enjoyed it!"
MJ: "No, I did too!"
Shaun: "Fair enough. I'm going to go five."
MJ: "Five? Oo you didn't at all."
Shaun: "It was fine." *Someone boos and Shaun smiles and shouts back* "No, that is perfectly acceptable!!" *Mark laughs*
Jason: "Average."
Mark: "It's average - it's in the middle."
Shaun: "It's not that I DIDN'T enjoy it at all! It's that it's average - right in the middle. Wasn't great - wasn't bad!"
MJ: "I can't think what you gave to Pyramids Of Mars now?"
Shaun: "One hundred and seven out of five!"
*Laughter*
MJ: "Leigh and Mark?"
Mark: "Erm, I give that a seven."
MJ: "Seven, that's good, yeah."
Jason: "Better than average!"
Leigh: "I'm going to give it six and that's only because of Milton Johns."
*Laughter*
Jason: "Yeah I like Milton Johns in everything."
MJ: "Yes he's always good fun. What does The Book say, Jason?"
Jason: *Dropping The Book* "Oh f**k!"
Shaun: "The Book says 'Oh f**k'?! It's aggressive this week!"
Mark: *Chuckling* "It IS aggressive this week!"
Jason: "Seventeen Milton Johns were used."
*Laughter*
MJ: "Oh it just says 'Milton Johns' over and over again!"
*Jason spends ages to find the page - then gets to it, pauses and sighs*
Leigh: *Laughing* "Jason's forgotten how to read!"
Shaun: *Smiling* "It's alright! This is valuable recording MJ can be doing!"
Jason: *Reading from The Book* "'The quaint English village of Devesham seems to be populated by alien-controlled zombies - dot, dot, dot. East Hagbourne and the nearby National Radiological Protection Board of Harwell, both in Oxfordshire, stood in for Devesham and the Space Defence Station. Three rhinocerotic (although Jason reads it as 'Rhinocentric'!) Kraal costumes were made'-" *Cheers from group* "-'with masks sculpted by Lauri Warburton.'"
MJ: "Oh. Never heard of them! Is he in-bread?...."
Jason: "I think it's a female." *Reading from The Book* "'Verdict: Eeerie, with a tangible sense of dislocation, this is an effective stab at something other than Gothic horror'."
Shaun: "What?!"
Leigh: "Yeah, you can't move for Gothic Horror!"
Jason: *Reading from The Book* "'Unfortunately, any mystery is made redundant by the title. Seven out of ten!'" *Slams The Book shut*
MJ: "Oh okay. Well then, join us next time for another story!"
Jason: "The Brain Of Morbius!"
MJ: "The Brain Of Morbius - I think you'll probably like that one."
Shaun: "I already like it - that is a GOOD title!"
MJ: "If you like Frankenstein-esque kind of things then you should."
Jason: "I like SOME-bius. But I like MOR-bius..."
Leigh: "God!"
Jason: "I'm going to do that joke again next time!"
*Shaun laughs*
MJ: "And on THAT joke! Bye bye for now!"
Photo 7: At Leigh's house.
Mark (with the DVD case)
& Evil Shaun (with the sign).
& Evil Shaun (with the sign).
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So that was that then! Always end on a joke! Except that we add my dry bit about scores - which were:
Shaun: 5
MJ: 9
Jason: 8.7
Leigh: 6
Mark:7
Mark:7
So average to good for that one. And the end of an era as it was the last story we would watch at Leigh's house. He has since moved into a new house with his lady, Jemma (who watched Planet of The Daleks with us!). Okay I write this end bit as we have finished this season! So I'd best scoot and start typing up those....
Until then I shall return, yes, I shall return...
MJ - 27/10/2017
