Classic!Who s6-The Mind Robber
Right. Review time. The Mind Robber-pretty fascinating episode :D Pretty tricky, quite inventive. In a way it gave me Celestial Toymaker vibes, with the fictional characters in lieu of toys, and the presence at the core, pulling the strings, playing with the team TARDIS' minds. There are also Space Museum vibes somehow, because tricky and clever. I really enjoyed the beginning with the unknown presence trying to lure Jamie and Zoe out, showing them their home planets on the screen, they were so obviously entranced and longing-they might be happy traveling with the Doctor, but the draw of home is still ever so strong. They were so caught, they couldn't even think rationally and realize it wasn't normal that each of them had seen their home planet, and it was obviously a trick…
The play on fiction in the world they landed in was just fascinating, all the more savoury for us fanfiction writers :D So cleverly handled-all the various characters they kept meeting with their various relevance, Gulliver only being able to speak the words Jonathan Swift gave him to say, the Doctor being required to write the story, but the tricks there-history vs. fiction, and if he tried to write his story before it happened, he would make himself a fictional character. This is neat :D I loved the story behind the Master of the Land of Fiction (I kept feeling weird that they called him the Master!), his being a human writer and the prisoner of the computer-and the writing battle with him was very nice too, fighting through fictional characters and all :)
Good, funny or interesting things:
- the beginning, with Two and Zoe being all enthusiastic about the lava and Jamie like "omfg stop being silly and GET US AWAY!!!" Jamie groping/clinging to the Doctor, nothing new there. And Two, you really don't need to insult the TARDIS controls.
- Zoe saves the day with slapping (Jamie). Precursor of the Those Girls Can Slap trend :D
- THE TARDIS EXPLODED AND I ALMOST HAD A HEART ATTACK. (It didn't though, all tricky mind things!)
- the Doctor spoke random French!
- the shenanigans about Jamie losing his face and the Doctor having to put it back together and getting it wrong XD AND SWITCHING ACTORS FOR THAT. Funniest way to deal with an actor being temporarily unavailable.
- all the fictional characters and settings; the children shouting riddles at the Doctor, his amused reaction to wishing wells, Jamie climbing Rapunzel's hair, the Minotaur and the unicorn Medusa and their having to cling to knowing those didn't really exist.
- Zoe having badass moments: figuring out the labyrinth, fighting the Karkus, then commanding him with a snap of her fingers :D You win, girl.
- Jamie and Zoe getting trapped in a book!
Not-fun but noteworthy lines:
Gulliver: He has articles of impeachment against you for treason and other capital crimes.
Two: Treason again. Really. [FORESHADOWING FOR THE TIME LORDS OR SOMETHING? WHAT?]
The Master [narrating]: Jamie and Zoe realised at last that the Doctor was in fact the most monstrous and cunning villain. There was no punishment too severe for the crimes that he had committed. [THIS IS NOT OKAY.]
Funny lines:
Two: But it moves the Tardis out of the time space dimension. Out of reality!
Jamie: Well, fine! Reality's getting too hot anyway!
Jamie: Well, I'm away to change, and I suggest you do the same. You look like a wee McLarty.
Zoe: A what?
Jamie: A ragamuffin, a… Oh, never mind.
Zoe: We're lost, aren't we?
Jamie: No, I wouldn't say that. We're just er. Well, we er. We just… You want to know something?
Zoe: What?
Jamie: I think we're lost.
Two: But when the writing comes first, that's fiction. If we'd have fallen into the Master's trap, we would have become fiction!
Zoe: Oh, that's horrible! [Aw, it isn't, bb!]
Zoe [about the Karkus]: You've been in the year 2000, haven't you?
Two: Yes, but I hardly had time to follow the strip cartoons.
Zoe: Well, you better start following this one. He's half way up that cliff. [And I love how 2000 is mentioned as something in the far future to them, too :D]
The play on fiction in the world they landed in was just fascinating, all the more savoury for us fanfiction writers :D So cleverly handled-all the various characters they kept meeting with their various relevance, Gulliver only being able to speak the words Jonathan Swift gave him to say, the Doctor being required to write the story, but the tricks there-history vs. fiction, and if he tried to write his story before it happened, he would make himself a fictional character. This is neat :D I loved the story behind the Master of the Land of Fiction (I kept feeling weird that they called him the Master!), his being a human writer and the prisoner of the computer-and the writing battle with him was very nice too, fighting through fictional characters and all :)
Good, funny or interesting things:
- the beginning, with Two and Zoe being all enthusiastic about the lava and Jamie like "omfg stop being silly and GET US AWAY!!!" Jamie groping/clinging to the Doctor, nothing new there. And Two, you really don't need to insult the TARDIS controls.
- Zoe saves the day with slapping (Jamie). Precursor of the Those Girls Can Slap trend :D
- THE TARDIS EXPLODED AND I ALMOST HAD A HEART ATTACK. (It didn't though, all tricky mind things!)
- the Doctor spoke random French!
- the shenanigans about Jamie losing his face and the Doctor having to put it back together and getting it wrong XD AND SWITCHING ACTORS FOR THAT. Funniest way to deal with an actor being temporarily unavailable.
- all the fictional characters and settings; the children shouting riddles at the Doctor, his amused reaction to wishing wells, Jamie climbing Rapunzel's hair, the Minotaur and the unicorn Medusa and their having to cling to knowing those didn't really exist.
- Zoe having badass moments: figuring out the labyrinth, fighting the Karkus, then commanding him with a snap of her fingers :D You win, girl.
- Jamie and Zoe getting trapped in a book!
Not-fun but noteworthy lines:
Gulliver: He has articles of impeachment against you for treason and other capital crimes.
Two: Treason again. Really. [FORESHADOWING FOR THE TIME LORDS OR SOMETHING? WHAT?]
The Master [narrating]: Jamie and Zoe realised at last that the Doctor was in fact the most monstrous and cunning villain. There was no punishment too severe for the crimes that he had committed. [THIS IS NOT OKAY.]
Funny lines:
Two: But it moves the Tardis out of the time space dimension. Out of reality!
Jamie: Well, fine! Reality's getting too hot anyway!
Jamie: Well, I'm away to change, and I suggest you do the same. You look like a wee McLarty.
Zoe: A what?
Jamie: A ragamuffin, a… Oh, never mind.
Zoe: We're lost, aren't we?
Jamie: No, I wouldn't say that. We're just er. Well, we er. We just… You want to know something?
Zoe: What?
Jamie: I think we're lost.
Two: But when the writing comes first, that's fiction. If we'd have fallen into the Master's trap, we would have become fiction!
Zoe: Oh, that's horrible! [Aw, it isn't, bb!]
Zoe [about the Karkus]: You've been in the year 2000, haven't you?
Two: Yes, but I hardly had time to follow the strip cartoons.
Zoe: Well, you better start following this one. He's half way up that cliff. [And I love how 2000 is mentioned as something in the far future to them, too :D]