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(First watched 2024-01-12, -14, -16, -17) | (First watched 2024-01-12, -14, -16, -17, -19, -21) | ||
Man, the Second Doctor is goofy fun. Lands on a beach, immediately goes for a swim and wants to make sand castles. Until the dudes in the hovercraft start shooting him. They get in a helicopter and from some markings inside can see the year is something near 2018. Troughton has a dual role in this serial, as he's also playing the man the Doctor has been mistaken for: the incredibly-similar-looking-but-with-a-different-accent-and-hair-comb, Salamander. | Man, the Second Doctor is goofy fun. Lands on a beach, immediately goes for a swim and wants to make sand castles. Until the dudes in the hovercraft start shooting him. They get in a helicopter and from some markings inside can see the year is something near 2018. Troughton has a dual role in this serial, as he's also playing the man the Doctor has been mistaken for: the incredibly-similar-looking-but-with-a-different-accent-and-hair-comb, Salamander. | ||
Part 4, what is Salamander up to? I briefly thought it was some sort of "surface dwellers vs underground people" thing where Salamander could be viewed as a hero to his own people, but it seems like he's playing them too. They seem to think there's been a nuclear war above ground or something, so they're not safe to return? But really he's just got them stuck down there causing "natural" disasters he can use to further his goals upstairs. | Part 4, what is Salamander up to? I briefly thought it was some sort of "surface dwellers vs underground people" thing where Salamander could be viewed as a hero to his own people, but it seems like he's playing them too. They seem to think there's been a nuclear war above ground or something, so they're not safe to return? But really he's just got them stuck down there causing "natural" disasters he can use to further his goals upstairs. | ||
OK, so in the end this one was a lot of fun. Patrick Troughton getting to be the villain with a silly accent. A near future (for the time) Earth. A story that moved along quickly enough. | |||
What a sudden ending. It would've been really something if the Doctor had been left behind, but Salamander improperly starting up the TARDIS and getting sucked out into the vortex is quite a way to go! | |||
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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