Doctor Who Season 2
SPOILERS TOTAL. You've been warned.
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009: Planet of Giants
- Planet of Giants 1964 October 31
- Dangerous Journey 1964 November 7
- Crisis 1964 November 14
(First watched 2007-07-30, -31, -08-01) Very cool. Â 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. Â Considering that and a BBC budget, it was done well. Â Great to see something really goofy go wrong with the TARDIS, other than just ending up in an inconvenient place or time. Â 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. Â The villain trying to disguise his voice with a piece of cloth, though... yikes, what a crappy trick. Â 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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002: The Dalek Invasion of Earth
- World's End 1964 November 21
- The Daleks 1964 November 28
- Day of Reckoning 1964 December 5
- The End of Tomorrow 1964 December 12
- The Waking Ally 1964 December 19
- Flashpoint 1964 December 26
(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. Â 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. Â 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. Â Boy, that'll make things awkward for Ian and Barbara if they ever get back home. Â They disappear at the same time as a student, and turn back up without her.
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