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(First watched 2024-10-29, -30, -) So though the Doctor is still exiled to Earth, since they wanted to do a far-out adventure for a change they just have him being manipulated by the Time Lords unknowingly. 500 years in the future, where colonists fear... images of giant iguanas. And the Master is mixed up in this somehow, but... so far don't know what he hopes to gain. There's a mining company hoping to scare off the colony so they can have all the resources, at least their aims are clear. Though I don't understand why it has to be either or? I mean, the Earth sustains a huge population AND a lot of mining. I wouldn't think there'd be a problem with a few small colonies coexisting with a mining operation, unless they'd built right over the motherlode or something. | (First watched 2024-10-29, -30, -11-03, -05, -06, -08) So though the Doctor is still exiled to Earth, since they wanted to do a far-out adventure for a change they just have him being manipulated by the Time Lords unknowingly. 500 years in the future, where colonists fear... images of giant iguanas. And the Master is mixed up in this somehow, but... so far don't know what he hopes to gain. There's a mining company hoping to scare off the colony so they can have all the resources, at least their aims are clear. Though I don't understand why it has to be either or? I mean, the Earth sustains a huge population AND a lot of mining. I wouldn't think there'd be a problem with a few small colonies coexisting with a mining operation, unless they'd built right over the motherlode or something. | ||
The Master's plan seemed... a bit overly complicated, though doesn't it usually? So he wanted to find the superweapon of a formerly powerful civilization, which he knew about thanks to Time Lord records. And he has no better way to find the specific location than to pose as an Earth Adjudicator, mix himself up in the colonist/IMC dispute, and eventually get one side to lead him to the location of the Primitives' city? Also interesting that the Master could've picked any time or place, but it was still a time almost exactly 500 years into the future relative to the Doctor and Jo on Earth. Hell, maybe his TARDIS has a time knob that goes in 500 year increments. | |||
Not sure what exactly to make of Jo's reaction to the smaller aliens. She'd been fine with the Primitives, but ones that are shorter and paler suddenly cause her to scream? Unsure if that's on her or the effects people not being able to pull off as extreme a look as they wanted. | |||
The end solution wasn't totally satisfying to me for a few reasons. The superest of priests determined it was in the best interests of everybody for the weapon to be destroyed... but that could only be done by taking the city with it apparently. But why did he not take any steps to evacuate the city? These were a people who did not remember their old ways, killing them all off wasn't exactly protecting any secrets. Second, it turns out radiation from this superweapon was causing the crop growth problems of the colonists. But it seems like if you've got a very radioactive weapon and destroy it... that's if anything going to make the spread worse? But I don't know, maybe it entirely vaporized, this is sci-fi. | |||
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059: '''The Dæmons''' | 059: '''The Dæmons''' | ||