Doctor Who Season 6
SPOILERS TOTAL. You've been warned.
044: The Dominators
(First watched 2024-03-15, -17, -19, -20, -22) Well, no mention of the Wheel, so abducting Zoe it is I guess. The people on this planet sure seem to very easily believe what the Doctor says. They say they're easily willing to accept facts placed before them, but they don't seem to consider many alternatives first. Some more nice 1960s effects with the weapon the Quarks use on people.
I like how the Dominators basically stop paying attention to the Doctor because he managed to convince them he was part of a stupider species on the planet.
I like Jamie, man. Stuck without any technology and just falling back on his 18th century tactics... smash a robot with a boulder! And the Doctor is immediately like "Yep, only one person on the island crazy enough to be doing that!" I do wonder if there was any pushback at the time to him talking about things like killing redcoats?
Last episode had some weird stuff. Grenades made from the contents of a first aid kit?
Copying the last lines from a transcript. Love Troughton's silliness, and he and Frazer Hines really play off of each other well, so it's no surprise they kept them together so long.
JAMIE: Doctor, come on, will ye? The whole place is going to blow up.
DOCTOR: Oh, it's quite all right, Jamie. The planet is quite safe. There's just going to be a localised volcanic eruption. It'll only affect the island.
JAMIE: Maybe so, but we happen to be on the island.
DOCTOR: Oh, my word!
045: The Mind Robber
(First watched 2024-03-26, -27, ) So trying to get away from that lava fast enough just in case the TARDIS can't handle it, they end up outside of time and space. As portrayed in the first two episodes anyway, I feel it is a bit more fanciful and abstract than the 60s TV production values can properly portray. There are times when they're clearly supposed to be walking through nothingness, but you can still see where the gray-white nothing floor becomes the gray-white nothing wall.
In episode 2 Jamie is replaced by a different actor. Without checking I wouldn't know if this was part of the original episode plan or something thrown in, but it was handled pretty well. And probably even a simpler explanation to follow than when the Doctor himself changed faces a few years back. It's actually pretty funny, the Doctor is given possible parts of Jamie's face to put back correctly and he just... blows it. (Checking now, I see Frazer Hines apparently had chicken pox for a few episodes.)
A few times "The Master" has been mentioned. My knowledge of the old show is limited, so I wonder if this is really the long-running character "The Master"? Or just someone else using a similar name. Most of the early Master stuff I've heard of has to do with the Third Doctor era but I couldn't tell you his first appearance. You might expect a lot of Masters and Rulers and Leaders to pop up. The Doctor doesn't seem to register any recognition upon hearing the name, but maybe The Master wasn't going by The Master the last time he knew him. (Checking now, it isn't. Just another Master.)
046: The Invasion
- 1968 November 2
- 1968 November 9
- 1968 November 16
- 1968 November 23
- 1968 November 30
- 1968 December 7
- 1968 December 14
- 1968 December 21
047: The Krotons
048: The Seeds of Death
049: The Space Pirates
050: The War Games
- 1969 April 19
- 1969 April 26
- 1969 May 3
- 1969 May 10
- 1969 May 17
- 1969 May 24
- 1969 May 31
- 1969 June 7
- 1969 June 14
- 1969 June 21