Project Classic!Who 2010: 066 - Carnival of Monsters
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Carnival of Monsters
The Doctor and Jo take the TARDIS on a test flight. They arrive on a cargo ship, the SS Bernice, that appears to be crossing the Indian Ocean in 1926 but is in fact trapped inside a Miniscope - a banned peepshow of miniaturised life-forms - on the planet Inter Minor. They enter another section of the scope but find themselves confronted by ferocious Drashigs.
The Doctor eventually breaks out of the scope and returns to full size. The device is owned by a pair of Lurman entertainers, Vorg and Shirna, who hope to make a quick profit from Inter Minor's hitherto reclusive natives. They have run into trouble, however, as the bureaucratic Minorians are dissatisfied with their credentials.
The Doctor's efforts to rescue Jo from the scope, which is on the point of breaking down, are hampered by the schemes of two Minorians, Kalik and Orum, who plan to dupe their superior, Pletrac, and overthrow the planet's president, Zarb, by allowing the Drashigs to escape.
Vorg destroys the Drashigs with an eradicator weapon and the Doctor, by linking the scope to the TARDIS, manages to return all the exhibits to their points of origin. Jo materialises beside the wrecked device, and she and the Doctor then depart in the TARDIS.
What gorgeous aliens. ARE THEY SANTA'S ELVES? Or gray orcs? WHAT.
Oh, I'm so glad the Doctor can use the TARDIS now. She's been neglected/used by the freaking High Council for far too long.
THOSE ARE THE GREATEST COSTUMES. The bobbly hair pieces. The colors. Where can I get one?
Why is it that aliens in the media are always technologically advanced compared to humans? And yet, humans are always depicted as the "superior" beings. Even the Silurians seem to be smarter than us. Why is this?
"Don't you ever admit that you're wrong?" "No, that's impossible, too." I missed the companions' jibes at the Doctor's TARDIS-driving/programming abilities. Although Jamie will always be the best at pushing his buttons. In more ways than one.
Fred Astaire IS marvelous, random, passing flapper girl. Wait one gosh-darned minute, I don't recall Fred Astaire being in any movies in the 20s. And imdb tells me his first film was Flying Down to Rio in 1933. SOMETHING FISHY IS GOING ON HERE. Not that the dinosaur wasn't a massive (har har, pun intended) hint or anything.
Jo is acting a lot like Stephen in The Time Meddler. ...and that just reminded me of the Gunslingers and THAT SONG WILL NEVER GET OUT OF MY HEAD.
Well, the second time around we heard more of the flapper's conversation and apparently it was a play, so that's more accurate. But I think we've got enough evidence that there really is something fishy going on, with or without that.
"Where's you're scientific curiosity, Jo? Don't you want to know what's going on?" "Not much, no." What a shit attitude for a companion. Just when I think she's finally grown on me, she has to go and say something like that. Also LOL AT A FREAKING HAND COMING DOWN AND TAKING THE TARDIS LIKE THE HAND OF GOD.
DALEKS. Do we get to see them, or was that just a passing reference? It's been so long since I've seen non-Power Ranger Daleks.
Violence is never amusing, guy whose name I've forgotten already. It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Or the Doctor whips out his Venusian Karate skills. Why does my spell check recognize Martian, but not Venusian? It thinks I mean Venison, and that is not even close to what I want.
If they wanted to make the Scope escape-proof, why did they put a knob on that door?
I've noticed that Jo says, "LOOK!" a lot. I can't say I would say something different in her place, but it is awful repetitive.
Um, I hate to break it to you, Doctor, but the people in there are actually not all human beings. And neither are the people you're talking to, so your pathos shouldn't work on them. That doesn't make them any less important, but still.
Despite the unfortunate absence of UNIT members, I enjoyed this one. :) It's actually been a while since I've seen one I didn't like. Yay Classic Who. ♥
Up next is Frontier in Space!