Project Classic!Who 2010: 058 - Colony in Space
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The Colony in Space
The TARDIS takes the Doctor and Jo to the desolate planet Uxarieus in the year 2472. There they become involved in a dispute between some beleaguered colonists and the crew of an Interplanetary Mining Corporation (IMC) spaceship over the ownership rights to the planet. The Doctor learns that the indigenous Primitives and their High Priests worship a large machine tended by a creature called the Guardian.
The Master meanwhile arrives in the guise of an Adjudicator sent from Earth to decide the fate of the planet. He forces the Doctor to take him to the Primitives' underground city, where they learn that the machine is in fact the Doomsday Weapon, capable of destroying entire planets. Its radiation emissions have brought about the decline of the Guardian's race and are also responsible for the crop failures that the colonists have been experiencing.
The Doctor persuades the Guardian to destroy the Weapon rather than let it fall into the Master's hands. The two Time Lords get clear just in time as the machine explodes, and the Master then escapes in his TARDIS. The colonists, meanwhile, attack the IMC men and force them to surrender.
The Time Lords are evil sons of bitches. "As long as it serves our purpose." Of course.
Jo really works my nerves sometimes. And clearly she works the Doctor's, too, or he wouldn't be trying to impress her with his TARDIS.
"Similar to Earth before the invention of the motorcar." Is that supposed to be a hidden environmental message?
Apparently it's not even hidden, if everyone has to leave earth due to pollution and overpopulation and a fascist government. I love when Doctor Who has an agenda.
"There's no animal life, just a few birds and insects." Because birds and insects aren't animals.
Jo took a course in escapology? Can someone tell me where I can find a class like this? I want to major in it. And then get myself arrested multiple times so I can escape and become famous for it. And I also want to know what led to Jo taking this course. Does she have a criminal background? A fascination with Houdini?
The Master as a mediator cannot be a good thing. There is nothing good that could possibly come of this.
This brain creature thing is the best thing ever.
AHAHAHA, the Doctor's magic tricks. ♥
Mm, mud wrestling. Very manly and not at all homoerotic.
I love that the Doctor actually hesitates before saying, "No. Absolute power is evil." He is totally Dumbledore.
The Brig is my favorite person in the world. "You'll never get that thing working properly."
I loved this one. I love the Master. I love Three. I love the story. I love the little brain alien things. I loved it. I really didn't have many comments, though, apparently. I'll work on being a little more detailed for the next ones.
Up next is The Daemons!