Doctor Who Season 4
SPOILERS TOTAL. You've been warned.
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028: The Smugglers
(First watched 2011-06-13, -14, -15, -16) Boy oh boy. A reconstruction. A historical. The group split up, and at least some of them jailed. It's like my least favorite formats and clichés have joined forces. Really the only thing a bit interesting about this one is thanks to a 2011 episode which seems to link to this one a bit by way of "Captain Avery".
"We have arrived at the coldest place in the world!" Well, which world?
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029: The Tenth Planet
(First watched 2011-06-17, -18, -20) December 1986! The future!
These Cybermen have outfits only slightly more advanced than the cheap plastic Halloween costumes for kids. Also, Polly seems a biiiit narrow-minded. I mean, I know the Cybermen are being jerkoffs and everything, but get mad about the right stuff. More than once she went on about how they couldn't get along because they were different. Way to love diversity there, Polls.
So it's Hartnell's last complete episode as the Doctor... and all he does is collapse at the beginning and lay in bed? Will we see him do anything at all again before regenerating?
The singsongy but roboty sound of the Cybermen is like autotune gone horribly horribly wrong. Melting Mondas... well, good thing having an Earth-sized planet melting nearby has NO detrimental effects.
The whole thing vaguely reminds me of the Star Trek: Enterprise episode with the Borg left over from Star Trek: First Contact. Human-machine mix, at a remote snowy base, and the Cybermen were even saying things like "Resistance is useless."
Bye-bye, Hartnell.
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030: The Power of the Daleks
(First watched 2011-06-22, -23, -24, -25, -26, -27) So weird. From what I'd read of the First->Second "renewal" previously, I thought it was going to be less of a change than most of the consecutive regenerations I've seen. But boy, Two really seems different already. Even Ben talks about how he acts differently. And he says things like "The Doctor had a journal, didn't he?", like he's a very separate guy. Gotta say, though, loving that flute.
Apart from new Doctor stuff, I love that they show up on a planet called Vulcan.
I really wish there were clips in here that weren't shitty and 2 seconds long. This Doctor sounds a lot more energetic than the previous, so I'd like to see how he acts, too.
I'm liking this story. It reminds me of Victory of the Daleks, but less goofy.
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031: The Highlanders
(First watched 2011-06-28, -29, -30, 07-01) While I'm not sorry to see the pure historicals go, this one sure does have an added flair with a Doctor willing to put on accents, dress in drag, and manhandle his captor.
Polly continues to be full of herself, trashing the people of the past for being people of the past.
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032: The Underwater Menace
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(First watched 2011-07-02, -03, -04) "Polly, you speak foreign. Go and talk to him, ask him where we are!" Bright, Ben.
The Doctor signed his note "Dr. W"? They really were going with Who as a name at this time.
Zaroff is really quite the generic evil scientist. Going forward with a plan to destroy Earth, because it would be the ultimate scientific achievement.
Polly, so useless. An unarmed Zaroff goes to grab a weapon and ends up killing the other person guarding him, and what's she doing? Screaming at the side.
The fish people may be the silliest thing since the bee people.
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