Project Classic!Who 2010: 052 - Doctor Who and the Silurians
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Doctor Who and the Silurians
Summoned by the Brigadier to an underground research centre at Wenley Moor, the Doctor and Liz Shaw learn from its director, Dr Lawrence, that work on a new type of nuclear reactor is being hampered by inexplicable power losses and by an unusually high incidence of stress-related illness amongst staff.
Investigating a nearby cave system, the Doctor discovers it is the base of a group of intelligent reptiles, termed Silurians, who went into hibernation millions of years ago but have now been revived by power from the research centre.
The Doctor strives for peace between reptiles and humans and manages to gain the trust of the old Silurian leader, but then a rebellious young Silurian seizes power and releases a deadly virus that threatens to wipe out humanity.
The Doctor finds an antidote, but the Silurians retaliate by taking over the research centre and preparing to destroy the Van Allen Belt, a natural barrier shielding the Earth from solar radiation harmful to humans but beneficial to reptiles. The creatures are tricked into returning to their caves when the Doctor overloads the reactor, threatening to cause a nuclear explosion. The Brigadier, to the Time Lord's disgust, then has the Silurian base blown up.
This would have been posted earlier, but I somehow accidentally deleted the last episode, so I had to wait until I got a chance to download it again. D:
Now that school's over, I can finally focus all my attention on Doctor Who!
"Now I wonder what that's for. Oh, well." The Doctor working on his car is adorable.
"Come on, Doctor Watson." Hah. Those two. ♥
Well, that is the least scary dinosaur type thing I have ever seen.
Oh, sexism in Doctor Who, will you never end? Well, I know EVENTUALLY the Doctor has no problem sending girls out into danger.
All monsters are clearly asthmatic.
I love how this guy finds a dinosaur in his haystack and calls for his wife.
I don't know if you're going to persuade anyone to trust you by breaking into their house, Doctor.
But then again, if they're dead, they're not going to be doing much trusting anyway.
That is the ugliest monster I have ever seen.
Don't you know, it's never safe to take the more direct route.
This music is so terrible. What I wouldn't give for a little Murray Gold right now.
The Silurians sound like something out of Power Rangers.
This one high pitched one sounds HILARIOUS. I am cracking up.
How do the Silurians even know what apes are? Haven't they been out of it for millions of years?
"Did it hurt?" "Did what hurt? ... Oh, yes. It was agony."
There is an absolute bloodbath going on over here.
Whyyy do the writers seem to think annoying, brain-melting beeping sounds cool and high-tech? Can't some alien kill you with weapons that sound like ocean waves?
Well. That was certainly not my favorite episode ever. But I did like that they attempted to parallel the Silurians with humans with whole, "They're different and hostile" when in fact each side was only being hostile because the others were as well. And then killing all the Silurians at the end because we humans are incapable of, well, humanizing other races.
But still, the beeping and the music were torture.
Up next is The Ambassadors of Death! Which is a very 1970s sci-fi cheesy title. I updated the downloads page, check it out.