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Maybe they were active, but in the interest of time the episode could only show those who managed to get anywhere. Off screen maybe 80 year old Ian and Barbara are trying to toss a blanket over a Dalek. | Maybe they were active, but in the interest of time the episode could only show those who managed to get anywhere. Off screen maybe 80 year old Ian and Barbara are trying to toss a blanket over a Dalek. | ||
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40X2: '''The Next Doctor''' ''[[]] [[]]'' | |||
(First watched 2009-01-06) Nice. Much cooler than last year's Christmas special. Gives you an interesting what-if for a while, wondering if the man really is a (potential) future version of The Doctor, though as things came to light I began to get a sense of what had happened to him except for the exact how of him coming about the fractured knowledge. I wonder how long he had been going around as The Doctor trying to fight Cybermen? | |||
Those Cybermen from another reality must be just like the ones the Doctor knew even though they had a different origin, because he immediately recognized their iron giant as a specific class of vehicle. | |||
Their plan to start up the thing seemed unnecessarily complicated, though. First, kill one man to get a funeral. Then, capture four important guys at the funeral. Then, mechanize those guys and have them lead groups of children to one location. Then... use those children for short-term manual labor? Shouldn't there have been a much simpler way? Were the Cybermen ''that'' short of power that they couldn't rotate a few gears and shovel some coal themselves? | |||
Tethered Aerial Release Developed In Style. Ha! | |||
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40X3: '''Planet of the Dead''' ''[[]] [[]]'' | |||
(First watched 2009-05-15) I kind of liked how almost the entire show went by without an appearance by the TARDIS, and even then it was just an exterior--no need for fancy dancy equipment. Otherwise this one just felt like kind of a long episode, not as grand as some of the other 90 minute ones. Also seemed a cop-out that he refused to bring along the thrill-seeking thief because he was no longer bringing ANYONE along, rather than because she was a thrill-seeking thief. | |||
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40X4: '''The Waters of Mars''' ''[[]] [[]]'' | |||
(First watched 2009-11-20) Wow, the Doctor really went too far this time. Eventually all but saying "Fuck the laws of time! I'm the Doctor!" I'm surprised he didn't go for a less drastic solution sooner, though. I mean, sure, the explosion there was important to history. But were the forensics results of any possible remains left after a nuclear blast important? Evacuate them to a distant part of time and/or space and they'd be alive while leaving the original flow of history intact. | |||
Also, gotta say that Adelaide's end solution seemed a bit off. So she was convinced the timeline should've been left as it originally was, and wanted to put things closer. But... a strange in-home suicide is not exactly going to have the same effect as a mysterious death on Mars. | |||
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