Doctor Who Season 2: Difference between revisions

SPOILERS TOTAL. You've been warned.

009: '''Planet of Giants'''

This episode made me want to play [[Pikmin]].

010: '''The Dalek Invasion of Earth'''

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.

011: '''The Rescue'''

(First watched 2007-10-07, -08) 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.

012: '''The Romans'''

Rome?  BUUUUURNED.

013: '''The Web Planet'''

OK, so it did end up taking me half a year to see.  At this rate I'd never catch up.  But boy, from awful costumes to boring story, this is pretty much scraping the bottom of what I expected of the early years of this show.  We didn't even get much main character interaction beyond Vicki/Doctor, since they were all split up.

014: '''The Crusade'''

On the whole this one reminds me of a less eventful The Romans, or even The Reign of Terror.  These historical ones seem to have a bit of a pattern of Barbara getting imprisoned, Ian rushing off to find her, and the Doctor trying to use power to his advantage by playing a highfalutin role.

015: '''The Space Museum'''

So the Daleks know they were there, recognized them for who they were, and knew they took off again.  I know in the more recent Doctor Who series the Daleks are also known to be powerful in travel of time and space, but I think this is something new for the 1960s.

016: '''The Chase'''

Ian and Barbara head back home.  I shall miss them.  Really the Doctors of today have about as much in common with Ian as they do the First Doctor, since they also double as the Leading Man of Action.

017: '''The Time Meddler'''

So his goal is to make history "better", but the Doctor wants to prevent changes.  But... don't they go about changing shit all the time?  They just don't know what the future of the planets they meddle with would've been otherwise.  Also, doesn't it seem like a bad way to neutralize the threat of a man who wants to change history... is to leave him in the past?  Making it so his TARDIS doesn't adjust size is a neat trick, but it still seems like  he could squeeze in there and illy manipulate the controls if he wished.  At least get someplace other than 1066 Earth where he could have access to better means of repair.  So the Doctor guesses the Monk is from a time 50 years later than himself.  Is this due to just making a guess based on advances in a newer model TARDIS?

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