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*''[[1969]] [[March 1]]'' | *''[[1969]] [[March 1]]'' | ||
(First watched 2024-04-26, ) A future Earth where space travel was abandoned once T-Mat (transporter) technology allowed fast travel of goods and services around the world and even to the moon. I kept wondering what Zoe thought about this, but it wasn't addressed. The specific times of these future Earths are often left vague, but she was from a future where there were space stations and distant craft traveling around. So should this be the past for her, just one she was ignorant about even though she's so full of information? Doesn't seem it could be the future for her, I don't think _interstellar_ travel would be abandoned just because of the T-Mat. Also it seems a relatively near future since the engineers who worked on rocket travel are still around. | (First watched 2024-04-26, -28, -30, -5-01, -02, ) A future Earth where space travel was abandoned once T-Mat (transporter) technology allowed fast travel of goods and services around the world and even to the moon. I kept wondering what Zoe thought about this, but it wasn't addressed. The specific times of these future Earths are often left vague, but she was from a future where there were space stations and distant craft traveling around. So should this be the past for her, just one she was ignorant about even though she's so full of information? Doesn't seem it could be the future for her, I don't think _interstellar_ travel would be abandoned just because of the T-Mat. Also it seems a relatively near future since the engineers who worked on rocket travel are still around. | ||
Not the first time I've seen this sort of thing in fiction, but it's pretty unbelievable how the One Guy who was still stuck on rocket technology has apparently been building a new model rocket on his own and keeping it mostly secret. This just isn't the sort of thing any hobbyist can do. A hobbyist with billions of dollars who forms a company of thousands working on their goal? That's a different story. | Not the first time I've seen this sort of thing in fiction, but it's pretty unbelievable how the One Guy who was still stuck on rocket technology has apparently been building a new model rocket on his own and keeping it mostly secret. This just isn't the sort of thing any hobbyist can do. A hobbyist with billions of dollars who forms a company of thousands working on their goal? That's a different story. | ||
And the Ice Warriors again. The last time we saw them was on... yet another future Earth, that apparently didn't have much space travel going on or it would've been a bigger help against extinction when it came to that ice age. Future Earth, pick a lane! | |||
In the modern show the Doctor uses psychic paper to help convince people he's someone in authority or someone who can be trusted, but do we have to headcanon that back in these days the TARDIS was performing a similar task psychically? Because for there to be a worldwide disaster on a necessary transportation system, and only one rocket to attempt a rescue/repair mission... they send the three mysterious visitors they'd find no record of if they bothered to check? | |||
So the seeds of death finally show up, with the Ice Warriors spreading a fungus to uhhh... partially Marsform the planet. But the weakness of the fungus is... water? The most common thing on the planet? In the movie Signs I excuse a similar thing because conveying a realistically dangerous alien invasion really wasn't the point, but in a six episode serial all about such an invasion, it seems a goofier weakness. | |||
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*''[[1969]] [[April 12]]'' | *''[[1969]] [[April 12]]'' | ||
(First watched 2024-05-07, -08, -10, -12, -14, -15) Halfway through and this seems kind of an unusual serial in that the Doctor and crew have had relatively little contact with the varying factions in the story. Briefly ran into pirates/defenders, then were sealed off. Traveled with the grizzled prospector guy for a bit, then ditched them. Now they've briefly run into the pirates again and run away from them... | |||
I enjoyed the bit where they're on their separated segment of the space station, and the Doctor comes up with a plan that will either work or... not. "Doctor, if we don't know the proper polarization, instead of being drawn TO the next fragment we could be shot away!" "Zoe, don't be such a pessimist." | |||
Now writing more after the last three episodes... not finding much to say. Maybe more would be notable if I'd seen more than just reconstructions. BUT these are the LAST missing episodes, so that era is over. | |||
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*''[[1969]] [[June 21]]'' | *''[[1969]] [[June 21]]'' | ||
(First watched 2024-05-17, -19, -21, -22, -24, -26, -28, -29, -31, 06-02) When they show up in a ~World War I environment, I was thinking about how the time of the episode was closer to WWI than it was to me watching it. However, it now seems like it's not really WWI at all. But a "1917 Zone" full of captured people who've had their minds messed with. | |||
Several episodes in, I am a little unclear on EXACTLY how the world they're in is put together, but in practice it reminds me of a Time Odyssey book I read where different parts of Earth were how they were at different points in Earth's history. In this case they do seem to be using a TARDIS-like time/space machine to drop people off in the different zones, but it feels more like they're in an entirely not-Earth environment and the borders between zones just display fake horizons from either side. | |||
Episode six and for the first time, the Time Lords have been mentioned by name by some of the baddies. I knew they came in by the end of this serial, but I didn't know one (is it only one?) is involved in... whatever these people are hoping to accomplish with their fake wars. | |||
OK, so now we hear what the plan is and... it doesn't make much sense! OK, this group of aliens wants to take over the galaxy. And the best warriors they know of are humans. But seems like 18th, 19th, early 20th century soldiers would be pretty behind the times? Unless they would then have them using more advanced gear? And they'd have a very finite supply of humans taken from historical wars, at least without completely screwing up history and thus making the fighters from later wars possibly not even exist. And with this finite supply of humans they want to take over a hundred or a thousand planets or whatever they said and thus rule the galaxy? | |||
So in episode 9 the Doctor decides there's no choice but to call on the Time Lords, since only they can help get the kidnapped humans back to their original places and times. BUT since he's a fugitive from them, he doesn't want to stick around for it. So he sends a message, then tries to run for the TARDIS like a bat out of hell before they can show up, though other people slow him down. So for practical purposes, if he thought he could make an escape in the TARDIS, I'm wondering why he didn't wait until he was back to it, send his message, and be gone two seconds later with a pull on the controls? | |||
As a Star Trek fan it's kind of funny that the Time Lords essentially put the Doctor on trial for violating the Prime Directive. Their punishment seems pretty lenient considering how seriously they thought he'd been violating their laws, though. "Sure, keep on doing your interfering, just... limit it to this general place and time." It also stretched credulity that these master of space and time who had the power to choose his next appearance could only show the possibilities as crude sketches. | |||
Jamie and Zoe being returned to where they'd been taken from with their memories wiped feels a lot like what happened with Donna decades later, though they didn't have lives and personalities as lacking as she did pre-Doctor. | |||
Goodbye Troughton. Goodbye 1960s. Goodbye black & white. | |||
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