The TARDIS showing up on RADAR seems like it breaks a lot of Doctor Who.
Was there snow on the ground when the TARDIS was hovering over Heathrow?
How did the plane lane on that landscape? Oh, wow they answered that.
How is the makeup on Doctor Who so bad? It’s the 1980s. Even original Trek did better than this 20 years prior. I don’t know if that bad guy is a racist caricature, all I know is let’s assume it is… classic Who hasn’t has a great track record.
Part Two
Yeah, now that I see the facial hair in more detail and the robe, yes it is a racist caricature.
Oh, there’s Adric, I was wondering why he was listed on Wikipedia.
Oh, racist caricature is just a racist Master.
Part Three
Uh oh, the Master stole the TARDIS.
I think the good ole’ TARDIS has seen better days, the door is rather loose.
The Doctor could try to stop the Professor with more than just a casual “stop.”
Part Four
The Concord is taking off, and you can see the buildings in the background. It’s not in the Jurassic period, it’s at an airport.
I guess we’re really done with Tom Baker, and it’s time for Peter Davison.
Part One
Some military police arrive and stop our heroes from rescuing the Doctor. Tegan and Nyssa steal an ambulance, drive it 3 metres to the TARDIS and leave Adric behind. Then the Master shows up, laughs, disappears, Adric is behind the Master’s TARDIS, comes into the TARDIS, they leave, the Master’s TARDIS shows up, the Master laughs, the Master’s TARDIS disappears.
That was… something.
Davison has a terrible haircut, but I enjoy him tearing apart his scarf.
“I wonder boy, what would you do if you were me,” he asks with his hands in his suspenders like William Hartnell used grip his vest’s lapels. So far I’m enjoying some Davison.
And now he’s doing a mediocre Patrick Troughton.
The Master’s moustache twirling villainry is tiring. And why does the Doctor have a Cricket locker room in the TARDIS? That’s a stupid question, the Doctor has everything. Oh, Adric is captured by the Master.
I think you mean universe when you said galaxy, Nyssa. But hey, Big Bang, sounds good. Just make sure you don’t end up on the Big Bang Theory.
Part Two
Disembodied Master head!
I love that the Doctor doesn’t have a fancy futuristic wheelchair, nope he has one from the ’80s.
Well, there’s some Pertwee nod, “reverse the polarity of the neutron flow.”
Why are Adric and the Master on the set for the music video for “The Rest Of My Life?”
Also, the Master is holding an original series tricorder.
After watching so many regeneration stories, I’m really happy that they restarted the show in 2005 without a regeneration. As much as I love Paul McGann, I didn’t need to see him to know that Eccelston was the new Doctor.
This is the problem with classic Doctor Who, so much wasted time as characters wander around.
Part Three
Very kind of the Doctor to leave a trail of blood for Tegan and Nyssa to follow.
Those Castravulvaians look like the eggmen, goo goo g’joob.
Oh! Celery! But he ate it, didn’t decorate with it.
Part Four
I enjoy the M.C. Escher building.
I feel like this story does not have much story for it. It could have easily been half the length. Maybe a quarter. It’s just a regeneration story, but usually there’s some plot outside of the Doctor’s regeneration.
We’re here. The final Tom Baker story. I’m gonna take a Doctor Who break soon. After this I’m going to watch K-9 and Company, which is the next Doctor Who item to air. Then I’ve got two serials that were animated that I didn’t watch before. After that I’m not sure how long it’ll be before I start up Peter Davison’s era. Maybe a year, maybe a day. Who knows. This past week seems like it was a whole year with this pandemic.
Part One
Oh that’s the Master’s TARDIS, just so happened to masquerade as a police box.
The Doctor doesn’t do a great job of communicating with people.
HAHAHA! The machine code they use makes the TARDIS draw like I used to do on my Commodore 64.
15 minutes of this episode was dedicated to fixing a flat tire and measuring a police box.
Part Two
Aunt and copper dolls!
If the Doctor is going to put a creepy garden in his TARDIS, he should make it less creepy. Also, how many people do you think from the hundreds of years of the Doctor’s life is roaming around in the TARDIS that never met the Doctor and are just trapped.
We have the same mind!
Why do British people pronounce “omega” so strangely.
The Doctor has an ominous stalker. If I recall correctly, the Watcher never gets explained. Maybe if they didn’t spend 15 minutes on flat tires (or tyres) then we wouldn’t be here. Watching Doctor Who makes me think that maybe Stephen Moffat’s bad writing when he was head writer is just normal Doctor Who.
Now there’s someone named the Monitor. Doctor, Master, Monitor, Watcher.
I really don’t understand why it’s so urgent that the Doctor head to Logopolis to have his TARDIS reconfigured.
Also, why is the advanced technology of Logopolis computers from the ’80s?
Part Three
So the TARDIS shrinks. Adric panics as the Doctor is in there… why should that matter? The external dimensions are not linked to the internal dimensions.
I feel like the only thing Ainsley is doing in this episode is laughing at the camera.
If the TARDIS is shrunk, why is it shot with fisheye?
Poor Tegan, she has nothing to do to help.
Really Doctor, that’s how you tell Tegan that Auntie Vanessa died? You’re a prick.
Part Four: The Final Part
Aww, I miss the sound of dot matrix printers.
This is the funkiest Doctor Who music ever.
More Masterial laughter.
Tom Baker deserved a better finale. But hello Peter Davison!
I started the episode, and then I got distracted by online grocery shopping. So that’s ten minutes of the episode without any commentary.
Cassia’s hair and eye shadow are on fleek, is that what the youngin’s say now… on fleek? I’m hip. It reminds me of Working Girl, which I watched last night.
“It looks almost alive,” says Adric as he approaches a stone like man who looks in no way alive.
Damn, that’s bad timing for the Keeper to shout out “EVIL!” as soon as he see Doc and Adric.
Part Two
“I had no idea your science was this far advanced,” Adric says as he stares at CRT monitors and racks of equipment with blinking lights.
What the fuck was this:
Part Three
I love falling nets.
I like the guy with the moustache. He just seems so tired of everyone’s shit.
“Only the Doctor can destroy our plans,” duh.
Stone man made a TARDIS sound as it faded away.
OH MY THE STONE TARDIS IS BACK! THE STONE TARDIS IS THE KEEPER OF TRAKEN!
Part Four
Doctor, it’s the Master, obviously.
Also, I love ROCK TARDIS!
Oh shit, Shit master’s got the new master body captured!
I went looking for a YouTube clip of “why not just waporize them?” from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. I couldn’t find it. Imagine it’s here. [↩]
