Doctor Who: Time and the Rani
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beccaelizabethI'm pretty sure I haven't watched this since it was first on.
... did the TARDIS just land in its very own rainbow?
Awesome.
"Leave the girl. It's the man I want."
*blinks and doesn't comment*
*loudly*
Least convincing regeneration ever!
... I should totally be drunk to watch this, yes?
Yes.
I like this big hair green look. 80s aliens!
And the big shoulders shiny red outfit also is win.
... this last appearance of the patchwork coat is anti-win.
Hmm. Dialogue isn't exactly snappy.
... the music is incredibly random and bad, isn't it?
Heh, web gun, fun!
... who thought Mel's pink look was a good idea? No, wait, who thought Mel was a good idea?
I like the colors on the not-Mel not-Doctor clothes. But bear in mind everyone looks kind of grey in the skin tones so...
oooh, bubbles! That explode! Whee!
And leave a neat little skeleton with a skull ridge and a tail.
eeew, injectings.
... Mel seems to have the same hair as the aliens, only curlier.
"You arrived from outer space, as they did" Is logic in that way that's not.
... and then he takes his belt off. *eyebrows*
7 making funny faces...
oh dear god, Rani as Mel... *giggling extremely*
So 8 gets regeneration amnesia, and 5 goes all wonky, and 6 did, but 7 woke up fine and had to get drugged? Er, why?
Pretty shiny red yellow and green lights. Vaguely rasta color scheme.
"But you are a genius."
"Oh yes, I definitely remember that."
:eyeroll: Yes, Doctor, we know...
The glamour of television: Surfing down loose rocks on your backside. And yet Mel's outfit still has mostly white trousers.
"He must have left you"
"No way, the Doctor wouldn't do that"
"If he had any sense he would"
... are we supposed to be agreeings with him?
I haven't actually seen any Mel stories recently, as in this century. But already I want to shoot her. And this is a new Doctor, so sort of a jumping on point, yes? But what do they do? Split them up and make him all forgettery. Erm...
Blowing up cliffs for the bubbles must have been fun.
This is not the Doctor yet.
Though the playing the spoons is fun. Though, you know, illogical presence of spoons. Or maybe they're spanners.
Heh, running with their arms stuck out backwards, attempts at really alien.
"Perhaps this is my new persona. Sulky, bad tempered."
That's more how I remember 6 actually.
The spooky edge pieces of alien and multi eyed vision is a bit Silurians, having watched that recently. Are these the vampire bat four eyed thingies? I sort of vaguely remember creepy.
"The more I know me the less I like me" could be clever. *files for later*
Clothes! Always the fun bit.
Napoleon outfit... interesting for the schemer... "Lacks my natural humility" :-)
Time Lord ish and he gets teacher robes out. Human Nature.
"Portentous" / "Pretentious"
*pause to LOL* 7 in maroon 4ish outfit with scarf.
"Old hat"
and... fluffy cuffs! ... scarily, that could work...
"Not frilled" (thrilled)
... yeah, I remember why smaller me liked this. bad wordplay so owned me.
(I has no Asterix books any more. Must correct.)
And then 5 and then 2 fur coat...
Only none of them are quite right, caricatures. This isn't very worky. I liked 4's wardrobe moments, with all the bizarre costumes. He didn't dress up as himself, he dressed up and decided who himself was. Bit of a difference.
... the final flasher reveal on the new outfit is... *blinks*
Huh, it's not 5 coat as I vaguely thought. Is different. With a bad jumper.
I like question marks, but there's such a thing as too far.
Urgh, disturbing face morphing of dooooom.
Er, if Rani=Mel and Mel=Rani and they're wearing the same clothes, how drugged *is* this Doctor that he's just buying it?
This is really a weird way to introduce anything.
Ooh, Mel in a bubble, yaays! She go boom now?
cliffhanger!
... you know, this is the Doctor Who I watched growing up, and was a fan of.
Er... oops?
This be why I only collected 7&Ace?
The credits are a bit unspecial compared to, er, the 1963 version. Spinning computer graphics just have less weird.
If there's tripwires everywhere, and we can see them, why is everyone running around with their eyes closed and missing them?
The pink sky is cool though.
Water landing. Blah. Oh stop screaming, you haven't gone boom yet.
"If you don't stop squawking" ... why are they making a companion where we're on the side of the telling her to shut up people?
I like the rainbow bubbles. Rainbows that go boom = two of my favourite things combined.
goopy icky red stuff = blood for the batlikes?
they're still hiding in the shadows being creepy.
the music is doing most of the doings here. and it's bad.
oh *facepalm* : Look, Mel, if you're hiding from the creepy things then shut the hell up, or at least don't yell up a cliff at someone for no readily apparent reason.
Do the writers want us to hate her?
And now there's screaming! When people remember companions as screamers, it's her, isn't it?
oooh, Tetrap!
You know, that was very briefly cool and scary, in the mask area.
Then it moved.
um, less creepy the more it looks like party gorilla suit. and tatty cloak.
... reasons to put monsters in clothing part the manyth.
you know, sometimes computer readouts could be better done as paintings.
rather than the kind of stuff we could do at home, I mean.
actually, making something now that would look that bad would take work.
ooh, I like the building. Upside down pyramid thingies!
You know, I still like these green alien dudes. They're all robes and hair and scaly face, but still with enough showing to act. Is good.
I hate this music so much I can't ignore it. That's a whole lot.
I like the shiny lab set though. Pyramids and glowy bits.
Doctor playing the spoons is clearly how we need to spend the time here. Cute though.
Tetrap heads work. It looks very weird and grrr. Tetrap bodies really don't. They look like Chewbacca with a beer belly.
Mel and the Doctor wrestling?
... suddenly I'm seeing this with 10 and Rose. And possibly oil involved. *bad brain*
soooo... feeling his pulse proves he's a Time Lord? How? It's just beats per minute.
"I've become more of a fool too. Doesn't bode well for my 7th persona."
(a) He says 7. This helps vs one set of argues.
(b) Tis far too true. Writers do this to him for why?
Okay, hopefully from here on he can just get on with being the Doctor.
He's wearing braces. I had sudden Jack comparisons.
953
"That's my age. And the Rani's."
His age keeps bouncing around a bit, don't it?
If they did a DVD release where you could take the music out it be much more useful.
... the behind you trick worked on the Rani?!
That's a bit cheap.
Lots of bat tetraps hanging up = cool.
wings and claws from behind, and heads from all angles, pretty good.
furbodies = fail.
It's gone watchable though. If the Doctor is being the Doctor things tend to.
umbrella as weapon... and then he stops to check he's okay. :-)
Screaming, arrgh! Oh good, stopped it with tongue... and now she's poseable! Heh.
pushed Tetrap into trap! Er, yeah, they're imaginatively named...
oh, I like the taking his hat off bit.
"normal, without Sarn" requires us to remember who Sarn is from weeks ago. "Normal, without our daughter?" Is just as natural and requires no such remembering. Bad writer no biscuit.
I like how their costumes are all different with different fabric headbands and shoulder fastenings.
Ooh, pretty torch things too.
Cool, disco ball of spiky. Spiky doom?
"The center of leisure" being dissed.
"there's no need for them to strive, an indulgent system provides all"
I'm having Thatcher flashbacks. erm, politics? hmm.
whee, glowy pixellated doom!
... everyone knows to be afraid already.
Little glowy lights that kill! Arrrgh! :-)
Mel upside down and paralysed. Yes, this clearly be good use of contract.
... Mel right way up and not paralysed? We skip a bit?
No, we have a hologram. Erm, that stuff more fun if you can guess.
Mel still poseable though, that's fun.
Computer expert Mel? Yes, in alien computer! :eyeroll:
"The Rani would never go to those extremes" ?!
Rani be killing people y/y!
Solstice have what to do with asteroids? ungood.
Poseable Doctor now :-)
How skinny is Mel? She seems to be mostly hair. It's distracting.
The Rani's outfit is still shiny win.
I have worrying fashion issues.
Giant Brain!!! Coooooool!!! Okay, giant brain means story = win.
Doctor in a box. Way to sell the new guy.
Mel of screaming. Already I tire of that.
also this episode ran out several times already. Sloooooooow.
I read the LXXXVII at the end of the episode. I was 10? Or 9 even. Huh.
Yeah, that's also the year boarding school had an actual TV, so that makes sense.
What time of year were these? I have it on paper around here somewhere.
The beer belly effect appears to be deliberate, since all the Tetraps have it.
Hang on, their names start with Tetrap? Er, yeah, humanBecca thinks that's sensible...
7 making silly faces of mind transfer. Arguing with the giant brain! Whee!
... giant brain room is at the bottom of rocket room? Um, didn't it be burning the brains?
killer anklets, fizzy water, and skeletons again = win
Beyus is Obey Us isn't he? The names be not so shiny.
Hee, leave her in the box.
technobabble of Even More Giant Brain? With Chronons. Neat.
Why she think she be in charge of it?
"Creation's chaotic. I shall introduce order."
See, the Doctor is chaotic good and his enemies are lawful evil.
Mrs Malaprop is funny cause he's been doing that all story.
Doctor can't help correcting it even when it ends world? ! :-)
"nothing can stop me now" of win.
fibreoptics is not wire. Why they not say the right word?
Double bluff? yay!
... why Rani think this leave someone on guard be good plan? Thinks they not know they get blown up.
Are all the big brains humans then? That's a bit boring. I mean, we're shiny, but we're not all that.
Blow up big brains with handy bangles?
... did he just use a swiss army knife instead of a sonic screwdriver? Hrm.
Now they leave behind the collaborator to blow hisself up, yes? Yes.
I like pyramid TARDIS of shiny.
Brain go boom! Yeah, and he go boom with them.
... and rocket take off. Clever plan Doctor!
... xfingers behind his back... aaaand it misses. Cool.
Ah, not all human, there's some recogniseable others.
Everyone back into the TARDIS to go back to their own times. Hope the Doctor's driving is pretty good lately.
Admiration for Beyus. Yes, because blowing yourself up be a winner. :eyeroll:
Mel wishes green dude be coming with them?
Hah! Tetrap TARDIS! Win!
... pouring out the antidote so they can meet their own challenges? Urgh, stupid. Very.
Yeah, I don't much like this politics.
"Time and tide melt the snowman" actually makes sense.
"I'll grow on you, Mel, I'll grow on you."
Yes, make him sound like fungus, or that clearly independently alive huge hair.
... is he looking at her butt? I hit pause and it do look so.
Okay, that wasn't terrible. Erm, some of it was, but mostly that wasn't. Weird, but...
okay, I see why all the 7 DVDs are from much later.
7&Ace for yaays!
... did the TARDIS just land in its very own rainbow?
Awesome.
"Leave the girl. It's the man I want."
*blinks and doesn't comment*
*loudly*
Least convincing regeneration ever!
... I should totally be drunk to watch this, yes?
Yes.
I like this big hair green look. 80s aliens!
And the big shoulders shiny red outfit also is win.
... this last appearance of the patchwork coat is anti-win.
Hmm. Dialogue isn't exactly snappy.
... the music is incredibly random and bad, isn't it?
Heh, web gun, fun!
... who thought Mel's pink look was a good idea? No, wait, who thought Mel was a good idea?
I like the colors on the not-Mel not-Doctor clothes. But bear in mind everyone looks kind of grey in the skin tones so...
oooh, bubbles! That explode! Whee!
And leave a neat little skeleton with a skull ridge and a tail.
eeew, injectings.
... Mel seems to have the same hair as the aliens, only curlier.
"You arrived from outer space, as they did" Is logic in that way that's not.
... and then he takes his belt off. *eyebrows*
7 making funny faces...
oh dear god, Rani as Mel... *giggling extremely*
So 8 gets regeneration amnesia, and 5 goes all wonky, and 6 did, but 7 woke up fine and had to get drugged? Er, why?
Pretty shiny red yellow and green lights. Vaguely rasta color scheme.
"But you are a genius."
"Oh yes, I definitely remember that."
:eyeroll: Yes, Doctor, we know...
The glamour of television: Surfing down loose rocks on your backside. And yet Mel's outfit still has mostly white trousers.
"He must have left you"
"No way, the Doctor wouldn't do that"
"If he had any sense he would"
... are we supposed to be agreeings with him?
I haven't actually seen any Mel stories recently, as in this century. But already I want to shoot her. And this is a new Doctor, so sort of a jumping on point, yes? But what do they do? Split them up and make him all forgettery. Erm...
Blowing up cliffs for the bubbles must have been fun.
This is not the Doctor yet.
Though the playing the spoons is fun. Though, you know, illogical presence of spoons. Or maybe they're spanners.
Heh, running with their arms stuck out backwards, attempts at really alien.
"Perhaps this is my new persona. Sulky, bad tempered."
That's more how I remember 6 actually.
The spooky edge pieces of alien and multi eyed vision is a bit Silurians, having watched that recently. Are these the vampire bat four eyed thingies? I sort of vaguely remember creepy.
"The more I know me the less I like me" could be clever. *files for later*
Clothes! Always the fun bit.
Napoleon outfit... interesting for the schemer... "Lacks my natural humility" :-)
Time Lord ish and he gets teacher robes out. Human Nature.
"Portentous" / "Pretentious"
*pause to LOL* 7 in maroon 4ish outfit with scarf.
"Old hat"
and... fluffy cuffs! ... scarily, that could work...
"Not frilled" (thrilled)
... yeah, I remember why smaller me liked this. bad wordplay so owned me.
(I has no Asterix books any more. Must correct.)
And then 5 and then 2 fur coat...
Only none of them are quite right, caricatures. This isn't very worky. I liked 4's wardrobe moments, with all the bizarre costumes. He didn't dress up as himself, he dressed up and decided who himself was. Bit of a difference.
... the final flasher reveal on the new outfit is... *blinks*
Huh, it's not 5 coat as I vaguely thought. Is different. With a bad jumper.
I like question marks, but there's such a thing as too far.
Urgh, disturbing face morphing of dooooom.
Er, if Rani=Mel and Mel=Rani and they're wearing the same clothes, how drugged *is* this Doctor that he's just buying it?
This is really a weird way to introduce anything.
Ooh, Mel in a bubble, yaays! She go boom now?
cliffhanger!
... you know, this is the Doctor Who I watched growing up, and was a fan of.
Er... oops?
This be why I only collected 7&Ace?
The credits are a bit unspecial compared to, er, the 1963 version. Spinning computer graphics just have less weird.
If there's tripwires everywhere, and we can see them, why is everyone running around with their eyes closed and missing them?
The pink sky is cool though.
Water landing. Blah. Oh stop screaming, you haven't gone boom yet.
"If you don't stop squawking" ... why are they making a companion where we're on the side of the telling her to shut up people?
I like the rainbow bubbles. Rainbows that go boom = two of my favourite things combined.
goopy icky red stuff = blood for the batlikes?
they're still hiding in the shadows being creepy.
the music is doing most of the doings here. and it's bad.
oh *facepalm* : Look, Mel, if you're hiding from the creepy things then shut the hell up, or at least don't yell up a cliff at someone for no readily apparent reason.
Do the writers want us to hate her?
And now there's screaming! When people remember companions as screamers, it's her, isn't it?
oooh, Tetrap!
You know, that was very briefly cool and scary, in the mask area.
Then it moved.
um, less creepy the more it looks like party gorilla suit. and tatty cloak.
... reasons to put monsters in clothing part the manyth.
you know, sometimes computer readouts could be better done as paintings.
rather than the kind of stuff we could do at home, I mean.
actually, making something now that would look that bad would take work.
ooh, I like the building. Upside down pyramid thingies!
You know, I still like these green alien dudes. They're all robes and hair and scaly face, but still with enough showing to act. Is good.
I hate this music so much I can't ignore it. That's a whole lot.
I like the shiny lab set though. Pyramids and glowy bits.
Doctor playing the spoons is clearly how we need to spend the time here. Cute though.
Tetrap heads work. It looks very weird and grrr. Tetrap bodies really don't. They look like Chewbacca with a beer belly.
Mel and the Doctor wrestling?
... suddenly I'm seeing this with 10 and Rose. And possibly oil involved. *bad brain*
soooo... feeling his pulse proves he's a Time Lord? How? It's just beats per minute.
"I've become more of a fool too. Doesn't bode well for my 7th persona."
(a) He says 7. This helps vs one set of argues.
(b) Tis far too true. Writers do this to him for why?
Okay, hopefully from here on he can just get on with being the Doctor.
He's wearing braces. I had sudden Jack comparisons.
953
"That's my age. And the Rani's."
His age keeps bouncing around a bit, don't it?
If they did a DVD release where you could take the music out it be much more useful.
... the behind you trick worked on the Rani?!
That's a bit cheap.
Lots of bat tetraps hanging up = cool.
wings and claws from behind, and heads from all angles, pretty good.
furbodies = fail.
It's gone watchable though. If the Doctor is being the Doctor things tend to.
umbrella as weapon... and then he stops to check he's okay. :-)
Screaming, arrgh! Oh good, stopped it with tongue... and now she's poseable! Heh.
pushed Tetrap into trap! Er, yeah, they're imaginatively named...
oh, I like the taking his hat off bit.
"normal, without Sarn" requires us to remember who Sarn is from weeks ago. "Normal, without our daughter?" Is just as natural and requires no such remembering. Bad writer no biscuit.
I like how their costumes are all different with different fabric headbands and shoulder fastenings.
Ooh, pretty torch things too.
Cool, disco ball of spiky. Spiky doom?
"The center of leisure" being dissed.
"there's no need for them to strive, an indulgent system provides all"
I'm having Thatcher flashbacks. erm, politics? hmm.
whee, glowy pixellated doom!
... everyone knows to be afraid already.
Little glowy lights that kill! Arrrgh! :-)
Mel upside down and paralysed. Yes, this clearly be good use of contract.
... Mel right way up and not paralysed? We skip a bit?
No, we have a hologram. Erm, that stuff more fun if you can guess.
Mel still poseable though, that's fun.
Computer expert Mel? Yes, in alien computer! :eyeroll:
"The Rani would never go to those extremes" ?!
Rani be killing people y/y!
Solstice have what to do with asteroids? ungood.
Poseable Doctor now :-)
How skinny is Mel? She seems to be mostly hair. It's distracting.
The Rani's outfit is still shiny win.
I have worrying fashion issues.
Giant Brain!!! Coooooool!!! Okay, giant brain means story = win.
Doctor in a box. Way to sell the new guy.
Mel of screaming. Already I tire of that.
also this episode ran out several times already. Sloooooooow.
I read the LXXXVII at the end of the episode. I was 10? Or 9 even. Huh.
Yeah, that's also the year boarding school had an actual TV, so that makes sense.
What time of year were these? I have it on paper around here somewhere.
The beer belly effect appears to be deliberate, since all the Tetraps have it.
Hang on, their names start with Tetrap? Er, yeah, humanBecca thinks that's sensible...
7 making silly faces of mind transfer. Arguing with the giant brain! Whee!
... giant brain room is at the bottom of rocket room? Um, didn't it be burning the brains?
killer anklets, fizzy water, and skeletons again = win
Beyus is Obey Us isn't he? The names be not so shiny.
Hee, leave her in the box.
technobabble of Even More Giant Brain? With Chronons. Neat.
Why she think she be in charge of it?
"Creation's chaotic. I shall introduce order."
See, the Doctor is chaotic good and his enemies are lawful evil.
Mrs Malaprop is funny cause he's been doing that all story.
Doctor can't help correcting it even when it ends world? ! :-)
"nothing can stop me now" of win.
fibreoptics is not wire. Why they not say the right word?
Double bluff? yay!
... why Rani think this leave someone on guard be good plan? Thinks they not know they get blown up.
Are all the big brains humans then? That's a bit boring. I mean, we're shiny, but we're not all that.
Blow up big brains with handy bangles?
... did he just use a swiss army knife instead of a sonic screwdriver? Hrm.
Now they leave behind the collaborator to blow hisself up, yes? Yes.
I like pyramid TARDIS of shiny.
Brain go boom! Yeah, and he go boom with them.
... and rocket take off. Clever plan Doctor!
... xfingers behind his back... aaaand it misses. Cool.
Ah, not all human, there's some recogniseable others.
Everyone back into the TARDIS to go back to their own times. Hope the Doctor's driving is pretty good lately.
Admiration for Beyus. Yes, because blowing yourself up be a winner. :eyeroll:
Mel wishes green dude be coming with them?
Hah! Tetrap TARDIS! Win!
... pouring out the antidote so they can meet their own challenges? Urgh, stupid. Very.
Yeah, I don't much like this politics.
"Time and tide melt the snowman" actually makes sense.
"I'll grow on you, Mel, I'll grow on you."
Yes, make him sound like fungus, or that clearly independently alive huge hair.
... is he looking at her butt? I hit pause and it do look so.
Okay, that wasn't terrible. Erm, some of it was, but mostly that wasn't. Weird, but...
okay, I see why all the 7 DVDs are from much later.
7&Ace for yaays!