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SPOILERS TOTAL. You've been warned. | SPOILERS TOTAL. You've been warned. | ||
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028: '''The Smugglers''' | |||
*''[[1966]] [[September 10]]'' | *''[[1966]] [[September 10]]'' | ||
*''[[1966]] [[September 17]]'' | *''[[1966]] [[September 17]]'' | ||
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"We have arrived at the coldest place in the world!" Well, which world? | "We have arrived at the coldest place in the world!" Well, which world? | ||
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029: '''The Tenth Planet''' | |||
*''[[1966]] [[October 8]]'' | *''[[1966]] [[October 8]]'' | ||
*''[[1966]] [[October 15]]'' | *''[[1966]] [[October 15]]'' | ||
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Bye-bye, Hartnell. | Bye-bye, Hartnell. | ||
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030: '''The Power of the Daleks''' | |||
* ''[[]] [[]]'' | *''[[1966]] [[November 5]]'' | ||
*''[[1966]] [[November 12]]'' | |||
*''[[1966]] [[November 19]]'' | |||
*''[[1966]] [[November 26]]'' | |||
*''[[1966]] [[December 3]]'' | |||
*''[[1966]] [[December 10]]'' | |||
(First watched) | (First watched 2011-06-22, -23, -24, -25, -26, -27) So weird. From what I'd read of the First->Second "renewal" previously, I thought it was going to be less of a change than most of the consecutive regenerations I've seen. But boy, Two really seems different already. Even Ben talks about how he acts differently. And he says things like "The Doctor had a journal, didn't he?", like he's a very separate guy. Gotta say, though, loving that flute. | ||
Apart from new Doctor stuff, I love that they show up on a planet called Vulcan. | |||
I really wish there were clips in here that weren't shitty and 2 seconds long. This Doctor ''sounds'' a lot more energetic than the previous, so I'd like to ''see'' how he acts, too. | |||
I'm liking this story. It reminds me of [[Doctor Who Series 5|Victory of the Daleks]], but less goofy. | |||
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031: '''The Highlanders''' | |||
* ''[[]] [[]]'' | *''[[1966]] [[December 17]]'' | ||
*''[[1966]] [[December 24]]'' | |||
*''[[1966]] [[December 31]]'' | |||
*''[[1967]] [[January 7]]'' | |||
(First watched) | (First watched 2011-06-28, -29, -30, 07-01) While I'm not sorry to see the pure historicals go, this one sure does have an added flair with a Doctor willing to put on accents, dress in drag, and manhandle his captor. | ||
Polly continues to be full of herself, trashing the people of the past for being people of the past. | |||
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032: '''The Underwater Menace''' | |||
*''[[1967]] [[January 14]]'' | |||
*''[[1967]] [[January 21]]'' | |||
*''[[1967]] [[January 28]]'' | |||
*''[[1967]] [[February 4]]'' | |||
--- | (First watched 2011-07-02, -03, -04, -05) "Polly, you speak foreign. Go and talk to him, ask him where we are!" Bright, Ben. | ||
The Doctor signed his note "Dr. W"? They really were going with Who as a name at this time. | |||
Zaroff is really quite the generic evil scientist. Going forward with a plan to destroy Earth, because it would be the ultimate scientific achievement. | |||
Polly, so useless. An unarmed Zaroff goes to grab a weapon and ends up killing the other person guarding him, and what's she doing? Screaming at the side. | |||
The fish people may be the silliest thing since the bee people. | |||
I like the conversation at the end that goes something like "Doctor, can you actually make the TARDIS go where you want it to?" "I could... but I never wanted to." "Buuuuullshit." | |||
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033: '''The Moonbase''' | |||
* ''[[]] [[]]'' | *''[[1967]] [[February 11]]'' | ||
*''[[1967]] [[February 18]]'' | |||
*''[[1967]] [[February 27]]'' | |||
*''[[1967]] [[March 4]]'' | |||
(First watched) | (First watched 2011-07-06, -07, -09, -11) More Polly stupid. | ||
Polly: You've definitely landed us on Mars, Doctor! | |||
Me: How can she know that, of all the places in the universe? | |||
Ben: I don't think that's Mars. | |||
Polly: How would you know, you've never been there! | |||
Me: ARGH. | |||
I wondered if they'd use some stock shots of, say, the Apollo landers. Then I remembered this ''predates'' that. I wasn't thinking fourth dimensionally. | |||
I like the Doctor's declarations here: | |||
"Because there is something evil here, and we must stay." | |||
"Evil? Don't be daft." | |||
"Evil is what I meant. There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things. Things which act against everything that we believe in. They must be fought." | |||
So the Cyberman's hiding spot nobody could find after searching the entire base was... under a friggin' blanket. | |||
Oh wow. The Cybermen don't sound like Daleks on autotune anymore, but like a bored Peter Frampton. | |||
--- | Credit where it's due: Polly's idea of using something like nail polish removed to weaken the Cyberman plastic was a good one. But their idea of mixing together all the available chemicals to be sure to include something that would harm the Cybermen seems like an accidental death waiting to happen. | ||
I wonder if it was intentional to use phrases like "What on Earth!" several times during a serial not set on Earth. | |||
From an in-universe point of view it makes sense that the Cybermen changed over the course of a century, but from a production poitn of view it's interesting they went through such radical revisions when there were only three serials between this and their original appearance. | |||
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034: '''The Macra Terror''' | |||
*''[[1967]] [[March 11]]'' | |||
*''[[1967]] [[March 18]]'' | |||
*''[[1967]] [[March 25]]'' | |||
*''[[1967]] [[April 1]]'' | |||
(First watched 2012-11-23, 2013-01-16, -17, -19) | |||
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035: '''The Faceless Ones''' | |||
*''[[1967]] [[April 8]]'' | |||
*''[[1967]] [[April 15]]'' | |||
*''[[1967]] [[April 22]]'' | |||
*''[[1967]] [[April 29]]'' | |||
*''[[1967]] [[May 6]]'' | |||
*''[[1967]] [[May 13]]'' | |||
(First watched 2013-01-20, -21, -22, -23, -24, -25) So Ben and Polly resume their lives on Earth the same day they left. This means for the last day or so there's been both First and Second Doctor facing crazy threats in London? And the authorities working with either didn't seem to know about the other threat. | |||
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036: '''The Evil of the Daleks''' | |||
*''[[1967]] [[ May 20]]'' | |||
*''[[1967]] [[May 27]]'' | |||
*''[[1967]] [[June 3]]'' | |||
*''[[1967]] [[June 10]]'' | |||
*''[[1967]] [[June 17]]'' | |||
*''[[1967]] [[June 24]]'' | |||
*''[[1967]] [[July 1]]'' | |||
(First watched 2013-01-27, -08-12, 2014-01-27, -28, 07-02, -04, -05) It's fine with me the Daleks barely show up in the first episode; a guy who seems out of time as an artifact seller and who knows exactly how to pull the Doctor's strings is kind of interesting. | |||
So these Victorian guys invented time travel by messing with static electricity and accidentally summoned Daleks? Huh. Interesting to see the Daleks want to study humanity to see if there's something about them that lets them keep beating Daleks--usually the Daleks I see are so stuck on race purity they'd never consider such a thing. WELL, except that crazy Dalek/human thing from a recent series... | |||
The Doctor seems to be going along with the Daleks' hostage-taking of the TARDIS. Does he have a plan? | |||
I guess the closest thing the Doctor has to a plan is to try and teach the Daleks that part of the "human factor" they're looking for includes things like mercy? | |||
Hey, the Doctor mentioned a positronic brain--not something I often hear outside of [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|TNG]]. | |||
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