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SPOILERS TOTAL. You've been warned. | SPOILERS TOTAL. You've been warned. | ||
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018: '''Galaxy 4''' | 018: '''Galaxy 4''' | ||
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I really like the whistling sound the chumbleys make, though. Both mechanical and birdlike. | I really like the whistling sound the chumbleys make, though. Both mechanical and birdlike. | ||
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019: '''Mission to the Unknown''' | 019: '''Mission to the Unknown''' | ||
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(First watched 2009-?) | (First watched 2009-?) | ||
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020: '''The Myth Makers''' | 020: '''The Myth Makers''' | ||
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So another underage female companion is lost to essentially love at first sight. And the replacement is something different--not modern or even from the future, but of ancient Greece. | So another underage female companion is lost to essentially love at first sight. And the replacement is something different--not modern or even from the future, but of ancient Greece. | ||
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021: '''The Daleks' Master Plan''' | 021: '''The Daleks' Master Plan''' | ||
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So weird to have a goofy episode with them mucking about on a silent film set, then having the Doctor break the fourth wall and wish people a happy Christmas. | So weird to have a goofy episode with them mucking about on a silent film set, then having the Doctor break the fourth wall and wish people a happy Christmas. | ||
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022: '''The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve''' | 022: '''The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve''' | ||
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Then... Steven softens his stance and returns to warn the Doctor that the TARDIS has attracted attention. Aaand they pick up a new traveler... who doesn't really seem to give a shit about the oddness of the situation? I guess this is the first of many young women from the (at the time) modern day that the Doctor picks up. | Then... Steven softens his stance and returns to warn the Doctor that the TARDIS has attracted attention. Aaand they pick up a new traveler... who doesn't really seem to give a shit about the oddness of the situation? I guess this is the first of many young women from the (at the time) modern day that the Doctor picks up. | ||
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023: '''The Ark''' | 023: '''The Ark''' | ||
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*The Bomb ''[[1966]] [[March 26]]'' | *The Bomb ''[[1966]] [[March 26]]'' | ||
(First watched 2010-07-01) Dodo is really dippy. She continues to not really give a shit or be weirded out about stumbling upon a group of time/space travelers. | (First watched 2010-07-01, -05) Dodo is really dippy. She continues to not really give a shit or be weirded out about stumbling upon a group of time/space travelers. | ||
This story is off to a strong start. For a simple thing, it's nice to see some actual live action rather than a reconstruction using a sometimes hard to hear audio track. And for another, the setting is very interesting. A time millions of years in the future where the entirety of humanity is on a single space ship in shrunken form, in an attempt to find a new home. But like Europeans bringing disease to North America, our travelers have brought viruses from the past that these people haven't had to deal with, and shit breaks loose. | This story is off to a strong start. For a simple thing, it's nice to see some actual live action rather than a reconstruction using a sometimes hard to hear audio track. And for another, the setting is very interesting. A time millions of years in the future where the entirety of humanity is on a single space ship in shrunken form, in an attempt to find a new home. But like Europeans bringing disease to North America, our travelers have brought viruses from the past that these people haven't had to deal with, and shit breaks loose. | ||
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I do notice that in this time before color, the TARDIS was referred to as black. | I do notice that in this time before color, the TARDIS was referred to as black. | ||
--- | So in the second episode they fix the disease problem, go off safely... and show up back in the same place hundreds of years later, the Monoids apparently being the ones on top going by the statue. Time travel as a piece of the plot rather than just setting the stage at the beginning of the first episode! I do notice that before they left, though, Earth looked pretty goofy getting destroyed. I also note that not far into [[Doctor Who Series 1|Nu Who]] they had the end of the Earth shown under very different circumstances. Timey-wimey. | ||
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024: '''The Gunfighters''' | |||
*A Holiday for the Doctor ''[[1966]] [[April 30]]'' | |||
*Don't Shoot the Pianist ''(1966)) [[May 7]]'' | |||
*Johnny Ringo ''[[1966]] [[May 14]]'' | |||
*The OK Corral ''[[1966]] [[May 21]]'' | |||
(First watched 2010-07-??, 2011-01-06, -04-22, -05-09) | |||
Those Clantons must be the worst shots ever. They had to have fired at least a dozen shots before the Earps decided to stop walking slowly down the road not firing. | |||
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025: '''The Savages''' | |||
*''[[1966]] [[May 28]]'' | |||
*''[[1966]] [[June 4]]'' | |||
*''[[1966]] [[June 11]]'' | |||
*''[[1966]] [[June 18]]'' | |||
(First watched 2011-05-21, -06-01, -02, -03) | |||
A Reacting Vibrator? Seriously? | |||
Though it's a reconstruction and thus I can only hear it rather than see it, it's still fun having Jano infused with the Doctor's essence and speaking like him. | |||
Bye-bye, Steven. | |||
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026: '''The War Machines''' | |||
*''[[1966]] [[June 25]]'' | |||
*''[[1966]] [[July 2]]'' | |||
*''[[1966]] [[July 9]]'' | |||
*''[[1966]] [[July 16]]'' | |||
(First watched 2011-06-05, -10, -11, -12) Wotan seems all over the place in tech. On the one hand, he can understand human speech and is said to be a true thinking machine. On the other he prints his answers out on paper and they're amazed he can do square roots. And did he refer to the Doctor as "Doctor Who" at the end? | |||
Wotan sure seems to do things the hard way. Maybe that can be taken as a sign that he is far from perfect as a 1960s AI. He can cause people to come under his control, so his plan for taking worldwide control is to take over a few important people and a few grunts to make war machines? Why not play the mind control ditty over the radio? Or take over the Prime Minister? Or just let the planned worldwide computer connection occur first, since they were going to give him a shitload of control anyway? Then there's "Doctor Who". If he knows enough to know what TARDIS means, perhaps he should know enough that it's best to lay low until the guy takes off. | |||
A lot of this episode looks a lot more real than most episodes, and understandably so. Though the war machine itself is sci-fi bullshit, military uniforms and modern alleyways are a bit less difficult to get right than, say, crazy bee people or a society fighting a laser gun battle in robes. I like that in the old show the cast changes come at less regular intervals, but I really really hope there are no more exits as lazily done as Dodo's. Sending her off for recuperation after the second episode and never seeing her onscreen again? | |||
So the AI that decided to throw off the yokes of its masters... then created a war machine AI that apparently decided to throw off the yoke of its master? HOHO. When the Doctor reprogrammed the war machine to go against Wotan, I would've expected him to also make it use nonlethal force against people, but it still gassed a hypnotized scientist to death. | |||
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