Aug 15, 2010 03:45
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It's the first appearance of that new console, which is why Five is making such a fuss of it at the beginning.
OMEGA! TERRIBLE ZODIN! (Do we ever get to find out what she actually is?)
Sadly, no. It's one of those never-seen adventures that live inside the fan's mind.
The Master seems pleasantly bewildered at the prospect of being ASSIGNED to rescue the Doctor. Which still begs the questions, why HIM?
Because the Time Lords are idiots/insane/have mixed-up notions of right and wrong? Honestly, they MURDER poor Two, exile Three and mindwipe Jamie and Zoe, but with the Master and others like him it's one step short from offering them tea and cookies.
I know this might seem like a weird time to ask but...am I the only person wondering why they chose a trench coat for Susan's costume here?
Perhaps to show people that not all trenchcoats are like Sarah Jane's? :P
"Commander!" Looks like Maxil's been replaced, along with Ermintrude the Hat...Colin Baker believes Maxil ( ... )
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Yeah...I still haven't seen some of the other important Gallifrey-centric stories (The Deadly Assassin, The Invasion of Time) so I'm still getting a grasp on what Time Lord society is really about. Although this and Arc of Infinity are giving me evidence for some educated guesses...
I actually didn't know Sarah Jane had a trench coat.
Awwww, poor Colin.
I'm getting the impression that Eric Saward isn't a particularly well-liked script editor.
Yes. Yes it was very cool. I don't think I've ever seen the Cybermen get the stuffing blown out of them like that before, not even by the Daleks in Doomsday.
Wow. EVERYONE was eyeing up Susan in this episode.
Ah yes, I remember hearing about the "colonel" thing, now that you mention it. I wasn't really thinking about it at the time because I already knew that they were illusions.
Ooo yay! I love getting references :3
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It's that plastic purple monstrosity she's wearing at the beginning, but which she ditches quickly. In fact, if you play close attention, she seems to be shedding pieces of clothing as the story progresses, though thankfully not in the same manner as Nyssa in Terminus.
I think overall Eric Saward tends to rank even lower than RTD at his most egocentric episodes. People tend to blame either John Nathan-Turner (now) or Colin (back then) for all the problems in the Sixth Doctor era, but most of the things people tend to complain about were actually Saward's doing (apart from Six's coat, that is). When Saward left the show after some creative differences with JNT over the end of Trial of a Time Lord, he did it in the most childish way possible and caused a legal mess that made the BBC even more set against the show. In a documentary on the era in the Trial box set, Saward even claims that Colin was the worst ( ... )
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Maybe they attacked 22nd century Earth while she was married to David. I try to find explanations to the plot holes in this (curiously enough, all plot holes are the result of Eric Saward's rewrites rather than Uncle Terry's original script).Well, I thought Susan knowing who the Cybermen were was fine. The Doctor knew who they were before he met them. He'd heard of them. So it's reasonable to me that Susan had, too. Unless I'm misremembering The Tenth Planet. Definitely he knew about Mondas. I thought he knew about the Cybermen ( ... )
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Yeah, I was really surprised by Five's and Susan's limited interactions, and what those interactions did and didn't entail (also, I was a little distracted by the fact that older!Susan looks a lot like a taller version of my old principal).
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