May 25

DW: The Underwater Menace

Hey Guys,

welcome to the 5th adventure of the 4th season of Doctor Who ‘The Underwater Menace’. Sadly there is half of the episodes missing. They recreated the first and fourth episode. Sadly not like the others with animation but just with photographs. If I had realized it I am not sure I would’ve still bought it. The picture give us not a real picture of the episode.

The first episode

Everyone who follows this blog knows that I love radio plays. Also I have Nick Briggs in my ear that he did this when he was young, just record the audio and than listen to it. Think it can be good. Maybe I don’t like it because the first episode was just bad. I really liked the start where Polly plays this little game with the other. ‘Let’s guess where and when we are.’ Like always that is what I love the most about Doctor Who are these little scenes between them. But after that most of the episode Polly is just screaming. In the three adventures she seemed a lot different. She start a discussion with a cybermen. But here he just seems to scream and being frightend.

New Companion

The second and third episode are … crazy. But it is also fun. The Doctor and the others got into costums and do a little roleplay to capture the mad scientist. Yep you read right. They land on Atlantis. The people there believe that a scientist can make Atlantis rise again. This scientist things it is a good idea to destroy the whole world. It is fun to see the four of the interact with each other. The best thing are the comments of the Doctor. There is something else new in this episodes. Finally Jamie is here. Jamie is diffently one of my favorites. They met him in ‘The Highlanders’ and he will develope are really great relationship with the Doctor. Jamie is the first companin that came from the past and he takes the time travel really well.

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May 18

DW: Power of the Daleks

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welcome to ‘Power of the Daleks’. It is the first adventure with the second Doctor and the 3rd adventure of the 4th season of Doctor Who. After the Doctor met before his death the cybermen, the first enemies he meet are the Daleks. Sadly all 6 episodes are missing. So they had reanimate all of them. The Daleks look great. But the animation itself is not really good. The motions are looking wrong and every character looks like they hate the world and want to kill everyone.

The earth future

Vulcan is a colony of the earth. The dating is difficult. In the story itself is no date given but in the trailer it is said 2020. Since none of the people knew what a Dalek is it has to be before ‘The Daleks Invasion of earth‘ which is in 2165. Maybe it just feels so wrong because we see it from our eyes.

Daleks and a murder

The Doctor is a little… he still is trying to find who he is now. Polly and Ben also have to find out how to deal with all this. When the arrived the Doctor finds a dead person and got attack. The Doctor is acting as if he has that dead person and takes the role to find out what is going on. The humans are working on capsule with three Daleks in it. The Daleks are out of Power and the people have nothing better to do than to give them power again. Even when the Doctor warned them.

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May 11

DW: The Tenth Planet – rewatch

Hey Guys,

welcome to the 2nd adventure of the 4th season of Doctor Who ‘The Tenth Planet’. The first Doctor is traveling with Polly and Ben. The 3rd season had a lot differnet Companions but in 4th season we got the biggest change. What actually for as makes Doctor Who what it is today. Willam Hartnells Doctor died and regenarted. ‘The Tenth Planet’ is the last adventure with the first Doctor. Polly and Ben will stay almost the whole season.
The story takes place in 1986 in Antartica and introduced another long lived enemy of the Doctor the Cybermen.

Mondas

The history of Mondas. Earth twin brother that drifted away. The story of the cybermen is not really different to the story of Daleks. There are a few mayor difference. The cybermen bringen Mondas back in our solar system to get the energie from earth. Pure survivle with no understanding for life or compassion. Polly tries to talk sense into the cybermen. That is something not many companions would do.

Polly and Ben saving the day

Sadly the Doctor don’t have much screen time. William Hartnell was ad bad health and has absend from most of the adventure. But so everything is up to Polly and Ben. There is no Doctor telling them what to do. They have to make the decissions on their own. They handle themself has good as the Doctor by messing everything up and get captured before they get out of there alive.

Reanimation

The last episode is sadly lost. But the reanimation of the episode is one of the better ones. It is detailed and you can see the typical emotions of our heros on their faces. Also it kinda suits the emotionless cybermen. I am more than happy that they did reanimated this. I love the story and it is such a important story for the Doctor Who we know and love.

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