Project: Who - Earthshock 1
Earthshock episode 1
Written by Eric Saward
Directed by Peter Grimwade
In a quarry, a group of troopers are scanning for a lost group of palaeontologists who were researching fossils in caves.
Adric is in his room whining to the Doctor. He says he wants to go back to his people. In the console room, he begins plotting the course back into E-Space.
The humans are in the tunnels while the Tardis lands underground. They are on Earth, in the 26th century. Everyone but Adric goes exploring in the caves. Adric stays behind, moping, and computing the way back home.
The troopers start dying,their numbers quickly dwindling.
The trio meets the remaining troopers, who think the Doctor must have killed the rest.
Androids show up. The surviving paleontologist confirms that she recognizes the sounds made by the androids' weapons. It wasn't the Doctor after all (duh).
It's their masters ... the Cybermen!
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It's about time the Cybermen show up. They've been gone far too long.
The look of the story is ok, the script could use some work though. Adric moping? Yeah that's never happened. Oh, except for every story he's been in except for Black Orchid. Nyssa and Tegan seem superfluous here. Other than standing there to watch the Doctor and Adric fighting, they pretty much did nothing.
More Cybermen, please?