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SPOILERS TOTAL. You've been warned. | SPOILERS TOTAL. You've been warned. | ||
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037: '''The Tomb of the Cybermen''' | 037: '''The Tomb of the Cybermen''' | ||
*''[[]] [[]]'' | *''[[1967]] [[September 2]]'' | ||
*''[[]] [[]]'' | *''[[1967]] [[September 9]]'' | ||
*''[[]] [[]]'' | *''[[1967]] [[September 16]]'' | ||
*''[[]] [[]]'' | *''[[1967]] [[September 23]]'' | ||
(First watched 2014-07-09, -10, -08-14, -15) Hey, it's nice to see some actual moving film footage again. | (First watched 2014-07-09, -10, -08-14, -15) Hey, it's nice to see some actual moving film footage again. | ||
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The Doctor pretending to go along with the villain's plain in such an overblown manner was great. A scene I could see showing up nearly unchanged in a Matt Smith episode. | The Doctor pretending to go along with the villain's plain in such an overblown manner was great. A scene I could see showing up nearly unchanged in a Matt Smith episode. | ||
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038: '''The Abominable Snowmen''' | 038: '''The Abominable Snowmen''' | ||
* | *''[[1967]] [[September 30]]'' | ||
* | *''[[1967]] [[October 7]]'' | ||
* | *''[[1967]] [[October 14]]'' | ||
* | *''[[1967]] [[October 21]]'' | ||
* | *''[[1967]] [[October 28]]'' | ||
* | *''[[1967]] [[November 4]]'' | ||
(First watched 2014-08-21, 2016-06-13, -14, -15, -16, -17) | (First watched 2014-08-21, 2016-06-13, -14, -15, -16, -17) | ||
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039: '''The Ice Warriors''' | 039: '''The Ice Warriors''' | ||
* | *''[[1967]] [[November 11]]'' | ||
* | *''[[1967]] [[November 18]]'' | ||
* | *''[[1967]] [[November 25]]'' | ||
* | *''[[1967]] [[December 2]]'' | ||
* | *''[[1967]] [[December 9]]'' | ||
* | *''[[1967]] [[December 16]]'' | ||
(First watched 2016-06-20, then totally forgot about and rewatched for the first time 2023-11-27, -29, -30, -12-04, -06, -08) | (First watched 2016-06-20, then totally forgot about and rewatched for the first time 2023-11-27, -29, -30, -12-04, -06, -08) | ||
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So far Victoria has accused the ice warriors of murder three times from seeing them knock people down, but has only been right on one count. | So far Victoria has accused the ice warriors of murder three times from seeing them knock people down, but has only been right on one count. | ||
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040: '''The Enemy of the World''' | 040: '''The Enemy of the World''' | ||
* | *''[[1967]] [[December 23]]'' | ||
* | *''[[1967]] [[December 30]]'' | ||
* | *''[[1968]] [[January 6]]'' | ||
* | *''[[1968]] [[January 13]]'' | ||
* | *''[[1968]] [[January 20]]'' | ||
* | *''[[1968]] [[January 27]]'' | ||
(First watched 2024-01-12, -14, -16, -17, -19, -21) | (First watched 2024-01-12, -14, -16, -17, -19, -21) | ||
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Other times the Doctor's actor has had a dual role, there's usually some clear story reason. Something is copying the Doctor, or bringing out some different aspect of him, whatever. In this case it's just... some unrelated guy who happens to look a lot like him. Though given things that have been established in more recent years (the TARDIS taking the Doctor where he needs to be, the Doctor sometimes picking faces for reasons he doesn't consciously understand), today we might interpret it as the Second Doctor looking like he does because he was meant to stop Salamander. | Other times the Doctor's actor has had a dual role, there's usually some clear story reason. Something is copying the Doctor, or bringing out some different aspect of him, whatever. In this case it's just... some unrelated guy who happens to look a lot like him. Though given things that have been established in more recent years (the TARDIS taking the Doctor where he needs to be, the Doctor sometimes picking faces for reasons he doesn't consciously understand), today we might interpret it as the Second Doctor looking like he does because he was meant to stop Salamander. | ||
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041: '''The Web of Fear''' | 041: '''The Web of Fear''' | ||
* | *''[[1968]] [[February 3]]'' | ||
* | *''[[1968]] [[February 10]]'' | ||
* | *''[[1968]] [[February 17]]'' | ||
* | *''[[1968]] [[February 24]]'' | ||
* | *''[[1968]] [[March 2]]'' | ||
* | *''[[1968]] [[March 9]]'' | ||
(First watched 2024-01-23, -24, -30, -31, -02-03, -06) | (First watched 2024-01-23, -24, -30, -31, -02-03, -06) | ||
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I like how in this serial there's not just the weird effects on the show intro, but a different type of weird effects for the end credits, showing the web/fungus. | I like how in this serial there's not just the weird effects on the show intro, but a different type of weird effects for the end credits, showing the web/fungus. | ||
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042: '''Fury from the Deep''' | 042: '''Fury from the Deep''' | ||
* | *''[[1968]] [[March 16]]'' | ||
* | *''[[1968]] [[March 23]]'' | ||
* | *''[[1968]] [[March 30]]'' | ||
* | *''[[1968]] [[April 6]]'' | ||
* | *''[[1968]] [[April 13]]'' | ||
* | *''[[1968]] [[April 20]]'' | ||
(First watched 2024-02-07, -09, -11, -13, -16) | (First watched 2024-02-07, -09, -11, -13, -16) | ||
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So the main enemy in this one is some kind of seaweed that can infect people and bring them into its group consciousness. But they often talk about the danger of "the weed" such that it sometimes sounds like anti-drug propaganda. | So the main enemy in this one is some kind of seaweed that can infect people and bring them into its group consciousness. But they often talk about the danger of "the weed" such that it sometimes sounds like anti-drug propaganda. | ||
The Doctor flying the helicopter was pretty great. I like how the conversation basically went "Do you know how to fly this?" "Remember? We watched someone else do it a few episodes back." | |||
I knew Victoria was leaving, but I wondered how. I mean, they have a general lack of control of the TARDIS, so would it take the TARDIS being sympathetic for a change to get her home? But as it turns out, she wouldn't be comfortable back home anyway and just decides to stay in whatever future Earth time they'd ended up on. These early years really had companions shuffling all across history, didn't they? | |||
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043: '''The Wheel in Space''' | |||
*''[[1968]] [[April 27]]'' | |||
*''[[1968]] [[May 4]]'' | |||
*''[[1968]] [[May 11]]'' | |||
*''[[1968]] [[May 18]]'' | |||
*''[[1968]] [[May 25]]'' | |||
*''[[1968]] [[June 1]]'' | |||
(First watched 2024-02-27, -03-03, -05, -06, -12) | |||
Showing up on a drifting crewless spaceship reminded me of the recent Wild Blue Yonder. The TARDIS is currently screwed up due to lack of mercury... that seems like a pretty easy point of failure that could strand someone pretty bad. Nice bit of continuity, though, looking for mercury to fix the same thing was the same excuse the First Doctor used to get everyone else to agree to explore the Dalek city before they knew it was the Dalek city. Considering the TARDIS has deemed this area unsafe and there are no people around, they sure seem to take it pretty easy. Jamie's just like "Aight, I'm gonna take a nap." I like that their meal is non-food pills, but with flavor and apparently a sense of filling. | |||
Another no-Doctor episode in there. Kind of impressed, Mr. 18th century had to make his own attempts to get the attention of people on the Wheel, obfuscate their origins, and find a way to disable a laser to keep the TARDIS safe... even if he's still 18th century enough to be confused by someone making an audio recording a couple episodes later. | |||
The scienceyness here seems half-baked. They talk about dangers from stars going nova including meteorites? Come on, son. | |||
This story... just felt like it didn't have much meat on its bones. I found myself thinking about what had happened so far, and being surprised I was already through 5 of 6 episodes. It wasn't until almost the end that most people on the Wheel even started seeing Cybermen and not half thinking the Doctor was a crazy person. | |||
Some of the 1960s effects were pretty goofy. Like the Cybermen moving through space with a goofy walk. | |||
So Zoe has decided to join up, and the Doctor tries to warn her what she's getting into with a Dalek clip show. This is the end of the season and I have to assume all the actors/sets will have been long gone by the time the next serial starts. So I wonder if they ever acknowledge the people left behind and say Zoe told them what she was doing, or if they're just left thinking the Doctor and Jamie abducted her. | |||
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