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(First watched 2024-06-12, -14, -16, -18, -26, ) The only serial to slap Doctor Who in the title like it's a novelization, I think? His new non-stolen car is more of a jalopy, but a good fit for him. Unless it rains, I guess. | (First watched 2024-06-12, -14, -16, -18, -26, -30, -07-05) The only serial to slap Doctor Who in the title like it's a novelization, I think? His new non-stolen car is more of a jalopy, but a good fit for him. Unless it rains, I guess. | ||
I'm with the Brigadier on this one, a scared man going nuts and drawing on the wall doesn't imply much... certainly not that he's reverted to a caveman state making cave drawings. Those caves down there must be pretty huge, though, to have room for what seemed like a pretty big dinosaur. | I'm with the Brigadier on this one, a scared man going nuts and drawing on the wall doesn't imply much... certainly not that he's reverted to a caveman state making cave drawings. Those caves down there must be pretty huge, though, to have room for what seemed like a pretty big dinosaur. | ||
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I already knew the gist of Silurians from Eleven-era episodes, but it is a very interesting one. A previously dominant species goes into hibernation, and takes so long to come out of it that a new intelligent species has evolved and taken over the planet. I don't think this jives with modern theory, but here they seem to explicitly connect the Silurians' hibernation as a reaction to the Moon appearing, which they did not expect to become a moon but to remove the planet's atmosphere and make it unlivable for a long period. | I already knew the gist of Silurians from Eleven-era episodes, but it is a very interesting one. A previously dominant species goes into hibernation, and takes so long to come out of it that a new intelligent species has evolved and taken over the planet. I don't think this jives with modern theory, but here they seem to explicitly connect the Silurians' hibernation as a reaction to the Moon appearing, which they did not expect to become a moon but to remove the planet's atmosphere and make it unlivable for a long period. | ||
So in the end the Silurians' attempt to kill humanity by disease fails, they're tricked to going back into hibernation, aaaaand UNIT seals them for what they hope is permanently. Though when the Doctor sees the explosions, he thinks they've killed them. Which one? Well, I kind of have to lean to the former, because it's much harder to imagine the Doctor going "Oh well, just gonna keep working with these people who have just committed genocide." | |||
Not something just with this serial, but about the Brigadier. As someone who's been watching Who in one form or another for nearly two decades now, he's been a name that has frequently come up but I haven't seen much of myself until lately, so I've been very curious to see what makes him such a big deal. I've previously noted his willingness to roll with the unbelievable when presented with it, but his unusual relationship with the Doctor must be another thing. Most people who spend much time interacting with the Doctor either become great friends or great enemies with him. Whereas the Brigadier is in an unusual position of being an ally who doesn't always agree with the Doctor, and thanks to having other loyalties and being part of a chain of command, sometimes goes directly against the Doctor's wishes as in this serial with the sealing in of the Silurians. | |||
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053: '''The Ambassadors of Death''' | 053: '''The Ambassadors of Death''' | ||