Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead

[beccaelizabeth]

I like this one.
Twisty plot, time travel, mistaken identity, doubles, moral dilemmas, and introduction of a character who could end up doing anything. He's in trouble and he could be trouble and also he's way mysterious. Got to love that.

Brigadier*2 is kind of fun. Apparently tidier=younger. I liked the little bits about what people were doing now - used car salesman or hushhush research. Maths teacher is still weird. Losing his memory must have been odd for everyone that knew him. Kind of fun.

I like it how they managed to threaten all the Doctor's lives at once. It takes a bit more arranging. Hitting him with a big rock, whilst sometimes tempting, is unlikely to be effective. Well, sufficiently big rock that stays on him, maybe, but generally you'd just get a series of new and potentially more annoying versions.

I liked it when Nyssa and Tegan got youthed. That was amusing. Because clearly going backwards has the opposite effect! That's what reversing the polarity will get you. *nods*

Nyssa's outfit wasn't ugly. That's new.

The Brigadier wasn't very nice. Being bossy when he is in fact the boss is much easier to take than randomly telling people to stay in the car when he's not the boss at all.

The moral dilemma bit - die so that 8 other people can die when they want to = no, die so that 2 other people can live when they want to = yes. Or, possibly, die to help 8 strangers = no but 2 friends = yes. Or it could be a boy-girl thing. Several layers of problem there.
Or, of course, it could be 'die to remove source of potential infection from universe'.

But then universe arranged it so he didn't die, which is handy.
This is what happens when the writers are on your side!
... observer effect, not that lucky when we aren't watching? ;-)

He wouldn't have died right away, he'd have just run out of being a Time Lord. Which is apparently synonymous with being able to regenerate. Hmmm.

The Doctor's habit of picking up random teenagers just never stops looking dodgy.
School uniform!
... which, looking at the other guys, wasn't a very uniform uniform. I mean they mostly had hats and ties but the rest was a bit mixnmatch.

I liked the car at the beginning.

The random bird on the head of the black guardian is a bit offputting. I mean it's hard to take a guy seriously even if he has grand cosmic powers if he also has a bird on his head.

I think the Doctor suspects something is up. Making predictions for things I've probably seen already is a bit wonky but there were certainly a bunch of clues. Like with Rose and knowing things she shouldn't ought to.

Now the TARDIS has 3 people with alien level knowledge and one person who reduces complex physics to 'zap'. Accurate as this is, it isn't going to make her look good.



I should probably do some real world stuff now. Like shopping. Yesterday's cupboard clean out left that rather necessary.
Also I have to make some decisions about who to interview for that companion job.
I hadn't previously considered the thing where I'd get guilty for not just employing everyone.
I know it doesn't work
and yet
*facepalm*

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[ryttu3k.livejournal.com]

I love Turlough. You know that, right? ;)

Hee. Zap.

[beccaelizabeth]

might has noticed :)