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 *''[[1971]] [[June 19]]''
-(First watched 2024-11-09, -, -, -, -) Interesting to see the beginning with the Doctor mocking non-scientific things as impossible, when "Hey, impossible non-scientific things are happening!" was the basis of much of the [[Doctor Who Series 14|most recent series]]. But for all that, he sure recognized _something_ from the archaeological dig on TV that he knows is dangerous. A bit irresponsible to not tell the other UNIT folks _any_ details before he goes running off with Jo. Aaaaaand there's the Master... summoning something in a ritual? What won't that guy get up to.
+(First watched 2024-11-09, -10, -12, -13, -15) Interesting to see the beginning with the Doctor mocking non-scientific things as impossible, when "Hey, impossible non-scientific things are happening!" was the basis of much of the [[Doctor Who Series 14|most recent series]]. But for all that, he sure recognized _something_ from the archaeological dig on TV that he knows is dangerous. A bit irresponsible to not tell the other UNIT folks _any_ details before he goes running off with Jo. Aaaaaand there's the Master... summoning something in a ritual? What won't that guy get up to.
+During the ritual the Master said something like "Doing my will is the whole of the law", which made me laugh. I'm well familiar with "Do as thou wilt is the whole of the law", and that is a fun play on it.
+The uhh... living Gargoyle or whatever looks pretty silly with his tongue perma stuck out. They also wisely kept the effects budget down by only IMPLYING a creature that's dozens of feet tall, but never showing anything more than footprints.
+So what the archaeological dig was getting into was... a spaceship, or at least a sort of spaceship hangar with a very condensed spaceship. I wonder what the Doctor recognized from outside that made him realize this.
+So for a hundred thousand year the people of Earth have been being manipulated by daemons who are the basis of many religions and superstitions, and who may decide to wipe out the Earth if whatever their plans are don't come to fruition... and the Doctor never thought to bring that up in the last decade we've been watching him!?
+Technical guy is a Sergeant Osgood. Definitely the naming of the Osgood from the 50th anniversary and after is a reference to this, though Google tells me that an in-universe connection beyond that is more iffy and contradictory based on various non-TV sources.
+The Doctor being attacked by a bunch of evil Morris dancers? That is 200% on brand Doctor Who, love it. Though I don't really get the Doctor (and friends) tricks to get him out of that situation. So they fake him having magical powers to claim he's a powerful wizard... but they were already planning on burning him as a witch, so how is that any different? Except wizards they apparently don't want to piss off with attempted burning.
+Incredibly British of the Brigadier to refer to a living gargoyle as "chap with the wings there".
+The ending... meh. Azal the super Daemon was defeated by being shocked at Jo trying to sacrifice herself for the Doctor? It felt like a bad Star Trek resolution, either of the "Kirk blows up computer with illogic" or "alien race impressed/confounded by Humanity" type. Not that Jo's offer made much sense to begin with. I mean, it's not just that they were looking for any old killing where one death could take the place of another. When person A wants to kill person B... they want to kill person B!
+The shooting location of this serial worked out nicely. Having like an entire small village to be used as extras? Gave more scope than the average story.
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