Doctor Who Season 2

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Doctor Who Season 1

SPOILERS TOTAL. You've been warned.

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009: Planet of Giants

(First watched 2007-07-30, -31, -08-01) Very cool.  Were it a modern episode a Honey, I Shrunk the Kids comparison would be appropriate, but this episode predates that movie by a quarter century.  Considering that and a BBC budget, it was done well.  Great to see something really goofy go wrong with the TARDIS, other than just ending up in an inconvenient place or time.  The background drama going on wasn't very remarkable, but it kept the environment of hour protagonists from being static... and somehow gave them a way to save many lives, even on modern Earth as inch-high versions of themselves.  The villain trying to disguise his voice with a piece of cloth, though... yikes, what a crappy trick.  I think this is the first time I remember seeing that cliche in something other than a completely parodic manner.

This episode made me want to play Pikmin.

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010: The Dalek Invasion of Earth

(First watched 2007-08-04, -05, -06, -07, -08, -09) The Doctor said their previous run-in with the Daleks was "a million years" in the future as an explanation to why they were still around.  I won't take that as an accurate measurement, but... the Daleks they saw before seemed to have come into being on that planet, and seemed bound to the planet.  Are we now to take it that they were just some remaining sect, and the others had long since gone off planet to conquer?

Goodbye Susan.  Boy, that'll make things awkward for Ian and Barbara if they ever get back home.  They disappear at the same time as a student, and turn back up without her.

I think it speaks to British-Gallifreyan conceptions of maturity and ages of consent when they can get away with the Doctor dumping off his ~16-year-old granddaughter in a devastated world to get married to someone she's just met.

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011: The Rescue

Not bad.  A short one, mostly an excuse to pick up another traveler in Vicki, but the question of what happened on the planet was a change, too.  No, not an Earth-Dido conflict or the Didoans becoming aggressive... but just a human mass-murderer trying to make it appear that way as a cover story.

(First watched 2007-10-07, )

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