Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll

Romana: "Doctor, sometimes I don't think you're quite right in the head."

little does she know

both groups of locals think he's nuts too. The ones with tech keep calling him crazy, the Swampies say "your mind is bent"
which amuses.

costumes: Green body paint, straps, and a couple of bits of cloth. 100% male though. Yet they recognised a woman. Why don't they ever arrive on some planet and have all the locals be worried about the lumps on her chest? Noooo, it's always "woman! capture and sacrifice!"
:eyeroll:

Now there's three of them tied to a bed... okay, a plank thingy that's expanding very slowly and killing them by stretching, but, amusement.

I think I've got this one in little book form. It's failing to surprise anyways. But, big tentacle monsters FTW.

Romana costume: Orange again. Blah.

The bad guys on the refinery are wearing white and blue. And possibly carpet.


Heh, when Romana screams it turns out to be a fake monster, when the Doctor 'screams' he breaks the window and saves everyone. That couldn't be Romana's trick? That would be much funnier.

Romana:
"My nose has stopped itching. All the time I was tied up..."
"It's a textbook example of displacement anxiety"

:-)


The futuristic computers are always funny. They've got these big switches and wiggly lines on the screen. Soooooo useful.

This one must have been such fun to film (/sarcasm)
they're running around in mud up to at least their ankles
the Doctor has those boots that go all up your thighs.


being good worshippers of the Great One
good enough to eat!

*mad acting skillz of being dragged off by giant squid tentacle*

And then the solution to it all was for the Doctor to put his special stick in the squid.

... I make *absolutely no comment*. None. Nope.




I have decided I don't like the 4th Doctor as much as quite a lot of other Doctors. Which seems weird because so many people think he's their favourite.
It's possible he's just less fun all in a row like this.

Next: Even more purple princess dresses! Yaays!

Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor

The bit with the twin planets and the war is somewhat predictable. Because nobody on Doctor Who has the kind of war you just win except if it's historical.

You know the thing with K9 is you kind of have to accept he's a very small and coincidentally dog shaped person, or else the thing where the Doctor jumps in the furnace after him is really rather insane.
Except the bit where he comes out utterly unscathed.



Theta Sigma, Theet for short, class of '92
... I am amused.

Drax, another Time Lord. Sort of. With the failing part.
So he gets a different accent ?!?!
I am amused and *facepalm* at once.

"Who's a little tin dog then?"
"Your silliness is noted."

It's interesting though to have a different career path on show.


Costumes: Romana's little white dress with the vvv edges is nice, except I don't generally wear white.
But I do have a skirt almost like that. Not the same, but close enough, maybe. Hmmm.

Princess Astra has a lilac and yellow ensemble that perhaps needs some work, though I like the shapes.

So why is it the spooky skull heads are always bad guys? They can't ever fake out and have them be good guys?

Oh, while I'm here - computers with TAPES??!?
Obviously these are highly futuristic tapes that are in no way ridiculous in a world with interstellar travel.



This is the funnest in terms of plot twists. They've had the whole bit on the planets at war and now they've got a sort of different thing with them running around in the Shadow world and it's all one story but it's all kinds of twisty cause new things keep getting dropped in. And then it's back to the war thing again because everything pulled together. And then close up the whole multi story arc! Eversomuch fun! I like it :-)

Wanna watch again!


Would have been even funner if I didn't know most of the endings already :-/
Is the only problem with Doctor Who - just a teensy bit not-new, these episodes.



Romana to Doctor: "You have absolutely no sense of responsibility whatsoever! You're capricious, arrogant, self-opinionated, irrational, and you don't even know where we're going!"
Doctor: "Exactly!"

Yup, that's pretty well accurate ;-)


I'm never surprised when companions leave, just that they stick it out for any length of time in the first place.
Not that I don't *like* him, just... insane people rarely make good flatmates / travelling companions, you know?



Now the only problem is deciding what to watch next. Neat.