July 20

DW: The Romans – rewatch

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welcome to the vacation in acient rome. The Romans is a story with 4 episodes and tells about what happend to them after they crash landed. We visit rome in the year 64 AD. Their is a story ‘Byzantium!’ from the Past Doctor Adventure Book series that is stated to play between The Rescue and The Romans.

A little bored

The little family is make a little vacation for already a month. Vicki gets a little bored. She wants adventure and the Doctor can’t sit still any longer. So he and Vicki are traveling to rome. When Ian and Barbara were attacked by slave traders and sold at an auction.
The story starts slow and gets a little darker when they got sold and the Doctor and Vicki stubble over corpse.

Start of Comic relief

The third episode was the reason for critic. There are a few comical scenes in it that for me doesn’t fit into the story. Nero is chaising Barbara throw the rooms and his slave behind them to fix his appereance. I get the wish to bring something new to Doctor Who and it is what makes the series still so amazing after 50 years. But I don’t like it very much in this story.
In this story is a lot of drama. Ian and Barbara are sold as slaves. The Doctor is finding himself surrounded by attempted murder.

Watch it or not

I love historical stories. The comedy elements are not mine. But they are not that much we had worse episodes like that in the new series of Doctor Who. The Romans is maybe not that good at the story telling but it is good story to get to know Vicki a little better. Also it gives us a chance to the Doctor interact with her. It is like he is replacing Susan (The Dalek Invasion of Earth) with Vicki.

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July 13

DW: The Rescue- rewatch

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welcome to first adventure without Susan (The Dalek Invasion of Earth) named The Rescue. For the first time they introduced a new companion – Vicki Palister –  to the group of the Doctor, Ian and Barbara. Vicki’s ship crashed on the planet Dido in the year 2493. She is a young girl and one of the only two survivors of their crew. It is a really short story with just two episodes.

They were a friendly race

The Doctor visited the planet before and stated that the people are friendly. But Vicki seems to be afraid of them and they actually doesn’t make such a friendly impression to Ian and Barbara. Vicki helps Barbara after she falls over the cliff. Later she explains her the situation she and Bennett are in. That these creatures killed the rest of the crew. At the same time Ian and the Doctor are trapped in a dungeon.

Missing a part

The Doctor is really sad about Susan’s departure. He stands a little beneath himself. Barbara and Ian try to make it easier for him. But she still missing. I wasn’t a big fan of Susan. But she was important to the other Crew members. The Rescue deals in a beautiful way with her absence. All the little things that shows the pain in the Doctors face. Vicki on the other hand lost her father and is alone and also needs to fill empty space in her heart. It is really sweet to see the Doctor trying to take care of Vicki.

Watching or not

The Rescue is a really short but good story. It is nothing special. Vicki seems in this really similar to Susan what is for me not the case. Yes she cries but she just lost family and can’t deal with death. It is a promising start for a new team. I like the dynamics between Vicki and the others that is shown here. I think Vicki makes the stories less dramatic.

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July 6

DW: The Dalek Invasion of Earth – rewatch

THey Guys,

I finally restarted my rewatch of the classic adventures of Doctor Who and I started where I left with the Dalek Invasion of Earth. It is the second story of the 2nd season of Doctor Who (DW 02). I like the second season were Doctor tries – even not really hard – to bring Ian and Barbara back to his time. The second season they friends, family and trust each other. It is a nice change to the distrust and fights in the first season.

The story has 6 episodes and also shows the first departure of a companion of the Doctor. It plays obviously in London around the time 2164. Ian finds a calendar that states this year but since the invasion they haven’t used a calendar anymore.

The Daleks are back

The Dalek Invasion of earth is the second story of the Daleks. We know that there are so many to follow. This is the plain old Daleks. When the Doctor and the other lands in London, the Daleks had already invade the earth. London was in the hands of the Daleks. The Doctor and Ian fall in the hands of the Daleks and Susan and Barbara met the resistance.

Resitance

Almost from the start Barbara and Susan help the resistance to make their plans. They also fight with them. Barbara is running into danger like always. Nobody can stop her. This is a story about war. That means that people die. The Daleks kill them without talking.
The resistance never really done anything against the Daleks. Dortmun is trying to build bombs. But they seem not to make much damage to the Daleks.
The resistance is running away. When Barbara stays to fight – mostly because to get reunited with her friends.

Not everyone gets out alive

For us many of the scenes look pathetic. You have to look past it. Than it is a really dark story with out much hope in it. People are trying to survive, trying to do something against the Daleks. It is about decisions to not help people when there is no hope. About running away. It is about the responsiblity you have for yourself and others.
It is dark and hopeless time where people are ruled by fear.

Watch it or not

I really like the story. I am not a big fan of ‘war’ stories what is a little contradictory to the fact that my favorite monster are the Daleks. The Daleks Invasion of earth has so many great theme in it, about strength and courage. The Dalek Invasion of Earth is not afraid to show reality. It has no mercy. People gets killed, they lose hope, but I also gives hope and show us who strong you can be with believing in your friends.
I love that Barbara is going and fight. How she is supporting the other that try to fight. They she keeps believing that their friends are still out there and alive.
It is a story that shows us Barbara strength and I love it when she has time to shine.

“Just go forward in all your believes and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine.”

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January 21

DW: Twice upon a time

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i finally watched the Christmas Special of Doctor Who – Twice upon a Time. There are many reason that i didn’t watched it before. At first i just forgot my Laptop so i could watch at my parents. Than a friend wrote me that her friend watched and she said that it was full of misogynist jokes. So i just didn’t watch it. Also i had alot of fears about this story and Moffats made them all real.

My favorite Doctor

Truth be told when i got be asked who my favorite Doctor is i still say it is the Tenth Doctor but i love the first one. He was soo different and grumpy and old. He was just not nice. Hartnell was perfect in this role and i was really afraid of what Moffats will do to him. First i think the Actor David Bradley did a really good job. But the way he has written… oh my god… now i hate the first Doctor. In this christmas special he is an misogynist asshole… the jokes are funny. The words ‘young lady’ feel like a … i am missing the word…

The first Doctor was an grumpy old man. Yes but he never talked to Barbara that way. He never talked to Polly – in the episode i could watch – like that. He never talked to Vicki like that. The young lady was mostly for Susan – his granddaugther – when she didn’t do what he says. Was he overprotect of her and sometimes didn’t take her serious. Yes, but this had many reason one is that refused to see that she has grown up. For him she will was be his little granddaugther.

Regeneration

The next think i hate is the Regeneration… the first one didn’t refused to regenerate. He accepted his fate. He knew he was going to die. He died because of old age. He was ready and Moffats just takes that from him.

That Twelfth doesn’t want to regenerate is okay. That i can live with. Than there is this nameless Captain that get involved in all that. And i just liked the idea that this captain was just some guy. At some point the first Doctor asked ‘why he so important’ and the answer was every is important to someone and i really liked this. But than in the end… he isn’t just one random guy. No he is the grandfather of one of the most important person in the Doctors life. Someone that new so many of regenerations and were so good friends… no random here… of course not.

Story with an anticlimax

The story was really weak. I saw the twist with Bill from start and i hate the idea of Testimony. The only thing i liked about it was that there was no evil master plan… i missed this. But Testimony can bring everyone and i really dislike that. We are more than memories. Sometimes you just has to let go of people. It is hard, but YOU have the memories about them. There is no need to bring them all back like that. But yeah we cheated death again… and we could bring back Clara… and Bill. Don’t get me wrong i love Clara and i love it when they bring people back like memories or they met again…

But i can live with the story and i can live with Testimony. Also i can live that Bill and Clara were back for the goodbye of the twelfth Doctor.

Unnessassary

What is way harder to live with is the whole unnessassary bunch of stuff… like Rusty… it so doesn’t make sense. There was so much more but i forget about it while i was writing this stuff… but in the end it doesn’t matter. I really, really dislike this christmas special… oh yeah Polly and Ben were unnessassary too… i don’t mean the original part. I mean the three seconds with new actor who looks totally unreal? Like they are wearing really bad wigs…

So yeah back to what i was saying in the end i am just happy that is over. I wasn’t a big fan of the the Doctor is a woman idea. But i am so ready for it now. She is a great actor and i can’t wait to see what Chibnall is doing with it. Maybe… Doctor will really become one of favorite shows again…

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October 18

DW: Planet of Giants

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welcome to the second season of Doctor Who with the first story ‘Planet of the Giants’. The story is just to mock Barbara and Ian. The actually landed in the right time (June 1969) but they got a lot smaller. That makes everything more complicated to achieve.

Too small

The story is nothing special. Ian finds himself in a murder case. They try to get justice for the victim what is not as simple as it seems when you are so little. For me the story itself is a little boring but it is kinda funny and interessting to see how they try to get stuff done in that size.
Also it is really a hard hit for Ian and Barbara to be that close to home. Sometimes we forget that they just want to be home. They grow to love the Doctor and Susan and also the traveling and the adventures. But in the end they still just want to get home and back to her life as teachers.
That is another reason i love these two. They know who they were and what they want in life before they met the Doctor. Of course the travel change them but they only make them more aware of what they really want.

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October 4

DW: Reign of Terror

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welcome back to the last adventure of the first doctor who season – Reign of Terror. Sadly to episodes of the story are lost. On the DVD these two episodes are reconstracted with animation. The fotoage is missing but both episode have the full-length audio soundtrack of the original. The animation is… I have seen why better animations. But the look of them are not bad. Just little passive? Just for information the missing episodes are the 4th and 5th.

The story plays in late July 1794. It tells us the Happings of the days before the 27th July. Ian finds out really fast that they landed in the France Revolution.

Welcome to France

I love stories like this. The Doctor and his companions are involved in this but everything would happen if they would be there or not. They don’t change history, they don’t save history or someone. Everything they do just is important maybe for the people around them. But the bigger picture is untouched by this. We learn about the down fall of Robespierre. There is so much information in this story about the history.
Also Barbara tells us something really important. Ian is quick to say ‘he deserved what he got’. Barbara points out that this is easy to say but not true. She makes clear that both sides have the right points. That you shouldn’t judge and with the knowledge they have the should know better. I really love her so much.

The End

This is the end of the first season of one of the most amazing series i have seen. I wish we would again get episodes like this. Episodes that just teach us about the History, about right and wrong and you time can change the view of it.

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September 20

DW: The Sensorites

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welcome to the next adventure in time and space with the story – The Sensorites. The Sensorites are an interessting alien race. In the future story ‘Planet of the Odd’ hinted at a possiblity of kinship. The story keeps place in the 28th centuary. There is no exact date give. In two of the episode we sadly has to do without Barbara because the actor was on holiday.

What is going on

The Doctor and his friends lands on a spaceship from earth. This Crew is in a ‘war’ with another alien race – the sensorites. The Sensorites are a kind race that didn’t know mistrust and murder. But when the humans arrive everything changes for them. This story is about fear and distrust and courage.

Susan and the sensorites

The Sensorites are a telepatic race and it seems like susan is very sensible in this kind of area. So she tries to talk with them. She tries to take the place normally the Doctor take. The Doctor doesn’t like it very much and i don’t think she is really good at it but you only learn by doing.
At some point Susan says that trust has to be earned and of course she is right but on the other hand why mistrust people how never gave you a reason to doubt them? Why is it wrong to trust? To have this trust in everything. In all the time before the humans came to the Sense- Sphere, there was no lying, no power fights, no murder. So why distrust his people?

Watching or not

I am not a big fan of the Sensorites and many things are very clear from the start. There is little in it to surprise us. But on the other hand is a solid story about what fear can do to a race. This story shows us how a race can change, how the human race brings out the worse in everyone. So yeah it is still a good story.

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September 6

DW: The Aztecs

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here we go with a new historic adventure – The Aztecs. It takes place somewhere 1430 – where Yetaxa died and was – and 1480. You can find different dates but the book of my trust is setting it around 1454.

How the story goes

Like the title says the story goes about the Aztecs. The TARDIS lands in a tomb of Yetaxa. Barbara had written about the Aztecs and is faszinated. She leaves the tomb and her comrads follow her. Just to find out that it is a one way door. You can go out but not in. So they have to find another way to get back to the TARDIS. The Aztecs think that Barbara is a recarnation of Yetaxa and that brings Barbara in a situation were she tries to change the future and stop the human sacrifices.

Changing History

The story is a really interessting story but changing time. Can you change the future or not. Barbara is at that point were she tries to change the outcome. Every companion has the moment. Barbara is one of the companions that doesn’t want to change the outcome for herself. Rose for example tried to save her father. Donna tried to save all the people of Pompeji. But Barbara didn’t know the people she tried to save and there were no big event like the volcano. She is faszinated by the Aztecs and wanted them to change to stop unnessassary sacrifices.
I really love Barbara for it and i love that the relationship between Barbara and the Doctor revivels so much about the Doctor.
The Doctor become more open and friendly and is fun to see him change and grow closer to the people around him.

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August 23

DW: Keys of Marinus – Rewatch

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welcome to the next adventure of the Doctor and his new family – Keys of Marinus. Sadly it is not really the next story. Between this story and ‘The Edge of Destruction’ is the story ‘Marco Pollo’. This story is not out on DVD. The story got lost over the time. Hopefully the will find it somewhere. Here in this story. The Doctor and the Crew are already friends and respect each other after the action of ‘The Edge of Destruction’.
Again this story is hard to set in the time line. There is no date given and also there is no indication were it might happen. My trusted source is setting it in the Prehistory time. For everyone that wants to know alittle more about it, i will writte about it in the last point it holds spoilers to future stories.

You need to help me

This story is built up a little different than the others. The Crew get asked for help and when they refuse they got backmailed. Our crew is send out to find the keys that got hidden in differents places. So this adventure has many mini-adventure and two of them are without the Doctor, because William Hartnell had a two-week-vacation. The story is alot faster than before and the last part comes a little short.

New pace

The story is really good. The whole atmosphere is different. Barbara and Ian stopped talking about going home. Barbara and the Doctor starting to become really close. We see a family growing together. It is fun to see them growing closer.

The History of Marinus – might have spoilers

There is a really interessting part of dating this story in a time line. Future stories about Marinus give the planet an interessting turn in History. The story ‘The World Shapers’, which is a comic strip from the ‘Doctor Who Magazine’ reveals that it has a big role in the History of another big monster in the Doctor Who Universe. Marinus will become Mondas the home planet of the cybermen. I don’t know if there are any indications for the time in Doctor Who (2005) Season 10 but before that the time is a wild guess. My source is saying that the story of ‘Keys of Marinus’ just make sense after the first rise of the cybermen in the story ‘The Cybermen’ and of course before ‘The World Shapers’.

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August 9

DW: The Edge of Destruction – Rewatch

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welcome to the two parter ‘The Edge of Destruction’ from Doctor Who. You can say much about it because it is a really short story. It is a little overacted but i really love the story very much. Because this story sets the whole way of the serie.

Let’s talk a little more about the story. Again we see alot of the TARDIS. The whole story play in the TARDIS and there is no monster in it. There is a problem in the TARDIS and nobody knows what is going on what leads to struggle between the crew.

This is totally why i love this episodes so much. In the other stories is alot of distrust between them. The Doctor brings the others in danger because he wants to explore. They don’t work with each other when they not are forced to it. In danger the work together.
Now that there is no evil force the can see all that distrust and anger is coming out. I really love it. Because Barbara speaks her mind and the Doctor does to.
Also Barbara has the most action in this story.

This story sets the developement of the relationship between the crew. We see them fight and all parts don’t back down.

This is the first step for the big family the Doctor will built for himself in the future. It all starts here in this epsiode.

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