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Doctor Who Serial 072 – Death To The Daleks

Another episode I’m not fond of. The Doctor finds himself on a planet where the Daleks and a human expedition must team up to strip the natural resources from a planet without the forethought to ask the native inhabitants, the Exxilons. Obviously the Exxilons don’t like this. The show is ridiculous, and The Doctor has work his way through a maze and prove his intelligence, with the Daleks close behind. It’s kinda like that episode of Stargate SG-1 where Merlin has some puzzles that Humans must solve to be able to gain access to his knowledge and they’re basic logic puzzles, like the one where you have to put the… Read More »Doctor Who Serial 072 – Death To The Daleks

Doctor Who Serial 071 – Invasion Of The Dinosaurs

Season 11 seems to have picked up some of the momentum that I hadn’t been feeling during most of Pertwee’s run. This second serial I quite liked, even though it was ridiculous. Some of the worst puppets are invading London! They look like someone had a fever-dream and tried to make a dinosaur. They did something slightly clever with the first episode, it was just named “Invasion” as the cliffhanger was the first reveal of the dinosaurs. The Doctor and Sarah Jane return to London and find it abandoned. They are arrested, and eventually freed, and then discover there are dinosaurs in London. It turns out that someone who works… Read More »Doctor Who Serial 071 – Invasion Of The Dinosaurs

Doctor Who Serial 070 – The Time Warrior

Wow, this is much better and what Doctor Who should be like. We have fun, we have silly, we have mind control1, we have Sarah Jane Smith, we have English people being so fucking English. Where should we start. Maybe with Sarah Jane Smith. This episode introduces a new companion for The Doctor, Sarah Smith. She introduces herself, and The Doctor introduces himself to her as John Smith. Yet, later in the episode she calls him just The Doctor. I don’t get it, but who cares. She’s smart, inquisitive, and funny. She sneaks into the TARDIS and The Doctor departs and heads to the middle ages. In the middle ages we… Read More »Doctor Who Serial 070 – The Time Warrior

Doctor Who Serial 069 – The Green Death

Farewell season ten and farewell Jo Grant. In these last six episodes of season 10 we see The Doctor, Jo and UNIT investigating a chemical plant and an abandoned mine in South Wales where a scientist is playing with mushrooms. Things get trippy maggots attack miners and cause a green death to infiltrate them. In the end, Jo saves the day with the brown cure. Jo tells The Doctor that she’s not joining him on his next adventure, but instead staying with the scientist who wants to take her with him on his next adventure… and get married? They just met! But everyone seems happy for them, they even sing… Read More »Doctor Who Serial 069 – The Green Death

DOCTOR WHO SERIAL 068 – Planet Of The Daleks

I got tired of Doctor Who and as such, I stopped watching it for a bit between episodes 5 and 6 of “Planet of the Daleks.” It wasn’t a very good episode, and I’m very tired of Jon Pertwee. I never loved him as The Doctor and I’m ready for Tom Baker. Except I still have 32 more episodes of the Pertwee era. The one thing that should’ve kept me interested in this serial is the fact that The Doctor and his co-conspirators dress up like Sesame Street monsters to hide from the Daleks. This might sound strange, but here’s the thing. There’s another creature in this story, who ally themselves… Read More »DOCTOR WHO SERIAL 068 – Planet Of The Daleks

DOCTOR WHO SERIAL 067 – Frontier In Space

This six part season 10 serial, starring Jon Pertwee is a lot of fun, but it’s also ridiculous and makes very little sense. The Doctor finds himself in Earth’s future when Earth is one of the superpowers in the known universe. They are colonizing the galaxy, but as are the Draconians1. The Draconians, as pictured above, are at a precarious peace with Humanity. There are some space raids here and there, but the Draconian empire is xenophobic and ready to attack, as are the Humans. The Doctor and Jo find themselves on a ship that is being attacked. The Humans think they see Draconians attacking them, but The Doctor sees… Read More »DOCTOR WHO SERIAL 067 – Frontier In Space

DOCTOR WHO SERIAL 066 – Carnival Of Monsters

The Doctor and his ever annoying companion, Jo, set their TARDIS down inside a peep show machine. This machine has the capabilities shrink matter, and store an entire ship, it’s crew and passengers. And that’s in only one compartment. The machine is topped with a beautiful CRT television, which allows those on the outside to watch what’s happening on the inside. A traveling pair of entertainers or swindlers arrives on a planet with their machine in tow. They are penniless and ready to entertain the people of this planet with their machine of wonders. Unfortunately the people on the planet don’t care. Unfortunately for the writers, nor do I. It… Read More »DOCTOR WHO SERIAL 066 – Carnival Of Monsters

Doctor Who Serial 065 – The Three Doctors

Happy 10th season! To celebrate the start of Doctor Who‘s 10th anniversary, the producers put together “The Three Doctors,” an adventure featuring Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton, and William Hartnell all in the role of The Doctor. The Time Lords are facing an energy drain. They must get help from The Doctor, but The Doctor is not enough, they cannot spare any other Time Lords, so they get The Doctor to help The Doctor. In comes Patrick Troughton. William Hartnell, however, was too ill as such, his Doctor got caught in a “time eddy” and provided help via the TARDIS’ built-in CRT television. Brigadier General Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart is an idiot. He… Read More »Doctor Who Serial 065 – The Three Doctors

DOCTOR WHO SERIAL 064 – The Time Monster

This might be the greatest episode of television history. The Doctor has a nightmare… The Master is near. Lethbridge-Stewart invites The Doctor to attend a scientific presentation. The Doctor refuses, and goes off with Jo Grant to find The Master. Well, it ends up that they all come together. It seems The Master is heading this new scientific research, which does many things. It leads to humanity’s better understanding of the space-time continuum; it brings Cronus to the modern time; it helps The Master (and The Doctor following) to travel back in time to Atlantis1. We see such beauty, such as a dude in a pure white bird costume, flap-flap-flapping… Read More »DOCTOR WHO SERIAL 064 – The Time Monster

DOCTOR WHO SERIAL 063 – The Mutants

In this episode of Doctor Who, we find humans in the year 3000 who have dominion over the planet Solos. The native Solonians are subjugated. Earth is planning to leave Solos, but Earth’s Marshall of Solos is a maniacal genocidal asshole. The Solosians are mutating into insect-like creatures. Of course they don’t know what’s going on, and The Doctor has to tell the Solosnigans that it’s a natural occurrence. They were trying to do something interesting… talk about colonial issues, but unfortunately they never quite hit the nail on the head. The native population is talked down to by everyone, Earthlings and Time Lords alike. The Solosians are not listened to… Read More »DOCTOR WHO SERIAL 063 – The Mutants