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|epname = The Mutants | |epname = The Mutants | ||
|epdate = 1972-04-08, 1972-04-15, 1972-04-22, 1972-04-29, 1972-05-06, 1972-05-13 | |epdate = 1972-04-08, 1972-04-15, 1972-04-22, 1972-04-29, 1972-05-06, 1972-05-13 | ||
|firstwatched = 2024-12-11, -?, -?, -30, | |firstwatched = 2024-12-11, -?, -?, -30, -31, 2025-01-01 | ||
|thoughts = They're really starting to trot out the Time Lords as an excuse to get the TARDIS back into action without REALLY changing the status quo. In this case there's a special message box the Doctor is supposed to deliver... which it seems like they could've just sent to the destination right away? Of course they really need the Doctor to intervene in the situation, but do they really think he can improvise through an unknown situation better than any of them can deal with it with much greater knowledge and precise time travel available? As viewers we know this to be true, but the Time Lords aren't supposed to view themselves as so impotent, are they? | |thoughts = They're really starting to trot out the Time Lords as an excuse to get the TARDIS back into action without REALLY changing the status quo. In this case there's a special message box the Doctor is supposed to deliver... which it seems like they could've just sent to the destination right away? Of course they really need the Doctor to intervene in the situation, but do they really think he can improvise through an unknown situation better than any of them can deal with it with much greater knowledge and precise time travel available? As viewers we know this to be true, but the Time Lords aren't supposed to view themselves as so impotent, are they? | ||
60 years into the franchise the history of the future is very inconsistent, but just this far in there's a lot less to get in the way. Last year we saw the Doctor and Jo go 500 years into the future and saw a period of Earth civilization in great expansion, both from colonists living on new planets and corporations mining them for resources. Now we've jumped another 500 years forward and Earth civilization has spread itself too thin with bad decisions. Ruining the livability of Earth and other planets in their influence with too much dirty tech. Too much abusing of other species they "partner" with on colonies. But even here where Earth is trying to disentangle itself from this particular planet, the greed of the colonial administrators is forcing the situation to continue. | 60 years into the franchise the history of the future is very inconsistent, but just this far in there's a lot less to get in the way. Last year we saw the Doctor and Jo go 500 years into the future and saw a period of Earth civilization in great expansion, both from colonists living on new planets and corporations mining them for resources. Now we've jumped another 500 years forward and Earth civilization has spread itself too thin with bad decisions. Ruining the livability of Earth and other planets in their influence with too much dirty tech. Too much abusing of other species they "partner" with on colonies. But even here where Earth is trying to disentangle itself from this particular planet, the greed of the colonial administrators is forcing the situation to continue. | ||
Episode 4 things start to get interesting. A long lost professor hidden in the caves makes for an appropriate person to talk with the Doctor on a more or less even level on knowledge of this planet. And their realization that the planet's 500 year long seasons leads to large-scale metamorphosis of the inhabitants as they adjust to forms appropriate for the new seasons is pretty novel.}} | Episode 4 things start to get interesting. A long lost professor hidden in the caves makes for an appropriate person to talk with the Doctor on a more or less even level on knowledge of this planet. And their realization that the planet's 500 year long seasons leads to large-scale metamorphosis of the inhabitants as they adjust to forms appropriate for the new seasons is pretty novel. | ||
OK... so by the end of the serial the metamorphosis thing has lost me again. That the inhabitants of Solos have different forms appropriate for different seasons, OK. But... their summer form is like all-powerful magic psychic glowing form. I have to wonder why it would be advantageous for them to go from that back to standard-humanoid later on. Of course, I could come up with some BS possibility if I really wanted to, science fiction has taught me ''something''. | |||
Y'know, for a guy who was supposed to be more or less a regular at this time and who is supposed to grow to being one of the Doctor's closest friends, we sure haven't seen much of the Brigadier this season.}} | |||
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