DWM Mighty 200 - Top Ten Watchathon: The Talons of Weng-Chiang (#4) Reaction Post
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This week's story is the six-part 'Talons of Weng-Chiang'. (I feel I ought to apologise for the fake Chinese men in this story - though they're no fault of mine!)
Clearly inconspicuous means something quite different on Gallifrey, if this is Four's idea of inconspicuousness!
- Henry Gordon Jago LOVES to play with words. And so, presumably, does Robert Holmes, judging by the number of alliterative sentences he gets into the opening of the first part! (Shame he never got to write for Audio!Six, who loves word play and excessive verbiage!)
- The Doctor's talking about him and Leela being inconspicuous - aside from their outfits (see screencap above), does he actually know HOW to inconspicuous?
- Okay, I can buy Four looking like the popular conception of Sherlock Holmes (especially given the storyline), but Leela's outfit? I can't help wondering if he was just taking the piss!
- That old woman at the riverside is repulsive on so many levels (and a horrible caricature as well).
- Heh! The Doctor starts to tell Leela off for using a Janus thorn on the Chinese man - until she tells him that the dead man was about to try to kill him.
- Yikes that really IS a giant rat!
- What the hell is a pixelated Leprechaun?
- Okay, Mr Chang's eyes are flashing white light in order to hypnotise someone. That can't be good!
- The Doctor tells Professor Litefoot that Leela was found floating down the Amazon in a hatbox - is her middle name Moses?!
- I laughed at Leela's 'Why are you making fire in your mouth?' You may well ask!
- 'Sharp as a trout' - What? Why not 'Sharp as knife'? Trout aren't known to be sharp!
- Chang's going to 'distil the essence' of two girls to 'feed' his Lord? Eww!!
- Chang's looking for a 'Time Cabinet' - is that anything like a TARDIS?
- Hee! I can't help laughing at Litefoot deciding to join Leela in eating the meat straight from the bone.
- Leela jumps through the window, losing her hat in the process, and then she's suddenly wearing it again.
- Oh, and now she's leaping up to cling onto the back of the disappearing carriage! It doesn't seem to occur to her that the Doctor's not necessarily going to know where she's disappeared off to!
- Yay! It's the 'Sleep is for tortoises' line!
- I've a feeling Litefoot's not going to be too impressed at the Doctor drawing a map on his tablecloth (nor the housekeeper, for that matter!)
- The Doctor one caught an enormous salmon and ate it with the Venerable Bede. Is Four the incarnation most fond of name-dropping?
- Leela thinks Chang's hypnotism is the 'spell of the shaman'.
- Sooner Leela than me, going into the sewers in just her undergarments!
- There's Jago and his 'oopizootics' again!
- Argh! Leela's been caught by the giant rat!
- This moment is priceless:
The Doctor catches sight of Leela in the dress which Professor Litefoot selected for her, and is rendered speechless.
- Jago refers to the Doctor as 'a man of a thousand faces' when Casey says that Four doesn't look like a detective.
- Why exactly does Chang involve the Doctor in his stage act?
- Jago's using alliteration again: epicanthic eyebrows.
- It's never a good sign when a villain cackles with laughter, and then howls like an animal!
- I'm not sure how Litefoot doesn't end up dead during this story!
- Chang's supposed ventroliquist's dummy is actually the 'Peking Homunculus', and it's got the cerebral cortex of a pig (so that's where RTD got the idea from for the pig alien pilot in Aliens of London/World War III.
- Aw, bless! Litefoot keeps trying to protect Leela, not realising that she's more than capable of protecting him.
- Jago's planning a 'Phantom of the Opera' style tour of his theatre.
- I giggled at Litefoot wearing an apron while clearing up the broken crockery.
- Jago claims the Doctor solves half of Scotland Yard's cases and then lets them claim the credit: shades of Sherlock Holmes!
- Oh look! The Doctor's doing the old 'knock the key out of the keyhole onto a piece of paper and pull it back under the door' trick.
- I'm surprised that Chang managed to survive the giant rat.
- LOL at Litefoot and Jago trying to escape via the dumbwaiter.
- Ugh! Magnus Greel's an ugly brute - no wonder Leela calls him 'Bent Face'!
- This exchange made me laugh:
Leela: We must trap them in the crossfire.
Doctor: What crossfire? Hazelnuts? Bread pellets?
- And this one made me smirk:
Doctor: What have you done to her [Leela]?
Greel: Nothing - yet.
Doctor: Take my advice - don't!
- Oh look, the Doctor's emptying his pockets!
- Phew! Everyone's survived! And the Doctor's offering to buy them all muffins for breakfast.
- I'm amused by Litefoor telling Leela all about tea.
Litefoot and Jago: an unlikely pair.
Feel free to add your thoughts/comments below. Next week's Watchathon episode will be 'Genesis of the Daleks' with Four, Sarah Jane and Harry.
This week's story is the six-part 'Talons of Weng-Chiang'. (I feel I ought to apologise for the fake Chinese men in this story - though they're no fault of mine!)
Clearly inconspicuous means something quite different on Gallifrey, if this is Four's idea of inconspicuousness!
- Henry Gordon Jago LOVES to play with words. And so, presumably, does Robert Holmes, judging by the number of alliterative sentences he gets into the opening of the first part! (Shame he never got to write for Audio!Six, who loves word play and excessive verbiage!)
- The Doctor's talking about him and Leela being inconspicuous - aside from their outfits (see screencap above), does he actually know HOW to inconspicuous?
- Okay, I can buy Four looking like the popular conception of Sherlock Holmes (especially given the storyline), but Leela's outfit? I can't help wondering if he was just taking the piss!
- That old woman at the riverside is repulsive on so many levels (and a horrible caricature as well).
- Heh! The Doctor starts to tell Leela off for using a Janus thorn on the Chinese man - until she tells him that the dead man was about to try to kill him.
- Yikes that really IS a giant rat!
- What the hell is a pixelated Leprechaun?
- Okay, Mr Chang's eyes are flashing white light in order to hypnotise someone. That can't be good!
- The Doctor tells Professor Litefoot that Leela was found floating down the Amazon in a hatbox - is her middle name Moses?!
- I laughed at Leela's 'Why are you making fire in your mouth?' You may well ask!
- 'Sharp as a trout' - What? Why not 'Sharp as knife'? Trout aren't known to be sharp!
- Chang's going to 'distil the essence' of two girls to 'feed' his Lord? Eww!!
- Chang's looking for a 'Time Cabinet' - is that anything like a TARDIS?
- Hee! I can't help laughing at Litefoot deciding to join Leela in eating the meat straight from the bone.
- Leela jumps through the window, losing her hat in the process, and then she's suddenly wearing it again.
- Oh, and now she's leaping up to cling onto the back of the disappearing carriage! It doesn't seem to occur to her that the Doctor's not necessarily going to know where she's disappeared off to!
- Yay! It's the 'Sleep is for tortoises' line!
- I've a feeling Litefoot's not going to be too impressed at the Doctor drawing a map on his tablecloth (nor the housekeeper, for that matter!)
- The Doctor one caught an enormous salmon and ate it with the Venerable Bede. Is Four the incarnation most fond of name-dropping?
- Leela thinks Chang's hypnotism is the 'spell of the shaman'.
- Sooner Leela than me, going into the sewers in just her undergarments!
- There's Jago and his 'oopizootics' again!
- Argh! Leela's been caught by the giant rat!
- This moment is priceless:
The Doctor catches sight of Leela in the dress which Professor Litefoot selected for her, and is rendered speechless.
- Jago refers to the Doctor as 'a man of a thousand faces' when Casey says that Four doesn't look like a detective.
- Why exactly does Chang involve the Doctor in his stage act?
- Jago's using alliteration again: epicanthic eyebrows.
- It's never a good sign when a villain cackles with laughter, and then howls like an animal!
- I'm not sure how Litefoot doesn't end up dead during this story!
- Chang's supposed ventroliquist's dummy is actually the 'Peking Homunculus', and it's got the cerebral cortex of a pig (so that's where RTD got the idea from for the pig alien pilot in Aliens of London/World War III.
- Aw, bless! Litefoot keeps trying to protect Leela, not realising that she's more than capable of protecting him.
- Jago's planning a 'Phantom of the Opera' style tour of his theatre.
- I giggled at Litefoot wearing an apron while clearing up the broken crockery.
- Jago claims the Doctor solves half of Scotland Yard's cases and then lets them claim the credit: shades of Sherlock Holmes!
- Oh look! The Doctor's doing the old 'knock the key out of the keyhole onto a piece of paper and pull it back under the door' trick.
- I'm surprised that Chang managed to survive the giant rat.
- LOL at Litefoot and Jago trying to escape via the dumbwaiter.
- Ugh! Magnus Greel's an ugly brute - no wonder Leela calls him 'Bent Face'!
- This exchange made me laugh:
Leela: We must trap them in the crossfire.
Doctor: What crossfire? Hazelnuts? Bread pellets?
- And this one made me smirk:
Doctor: What have you done to her [Leela]?
Greel: Nothing - yet.
Doctor: Take my advice - don't!
- Oh look, the Doctor's emptying his pockets!
- Phew! Everyone's survived! And the Doctor's offering to buy them all muffins for breakfast.
- I'm amused by Litefoor telling Leela all about tea.
Litefoot and Jago: an unlikely pair.
Feel free to add your thoughts/comments below. Next week's Watchathon episode will be 'Genesis of the Daleks' with Four, Sarah Jane and Harry.