August 28

DW: The Web Planet – rewatch

Hey Guys,

welcome to the story The Web Planet. It is a story over six episodes. The Doctor, Vicki, Ian and Barbara are landing on the planet Vortis with aliens in forms of giant insects. Ahistory and other novelisation place the story around 20.000.

Always the same

Like all the other Doctors the first doesn’t know what is going on in the TARDIS. This story is a story like this. The TARDIS doesn’t do what he wants. She stays at this planet and Ian and the Doctor go out to find the reason. What I like about this is Barbara. She is a very intelligent woman and she knows that there is a logic answer to what is happening to her and her bracelet – for me it looks like magnetic – but she doesn’t know the answer yet and it frightens her and she is not afraid to admit that.

Missing

The Web Planet is one of the stories that never really got me or I didn’t got the story. When you listen to Big Finish not just the stories but the interview you get a lot of opinions about different Doctor Who Stories. I actually don’t remember who said it but same one was talking about how great The Web Planet was and what this loved about it. So when I rewatched it wanted to see what this person saw. Sadly for me I didn’t. It wasn’t the costumes or that the stories wasn’t good. Somehow it is really hard for me to watch it. I don’t why or what it is that makes this story so uninteresting for me.
I am not a big fan of the costumes and you actually have to see it in the time it was made. Even I couldn’t remember who was who of this Menoptera. Everyone of them was slightly different. The story about an Invasion race and the fight against is great.

So the story has great things but still something seems to be missing for me. I still think that everyone should watch it. Even when the only reason is that there are just three stories left with Ian and Barbara and one of them The Crusade is partly missing.

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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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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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July 26

DW: The Daleks – rewatch

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here we go with the next adventure of my rewatch of Classic Doctor Who – The Daleks. Like the title says the story is about the Daleks. It is so much fun to see the history of the Daleks and the Doctor. This are still the Daleks i learnt to love.
To set the story in a time line seems complicated. There is no date given in the story itself and everyone is setting the story in a different time. My source is setting it around 2250 but it is just a wild guess with all the clues from the other stories.

Everyone for himself

Nobody on the TARDIS is a team right now. Not totally true. Ian and Barbara are a team. They are still focused on getting back home. They are good people and wanting to help but they also forget sometimes everything when the other is danger or wants something or focus to much on getting home. They don’t start to see beauty in this adventures.
The Doctor is just wanting to see everything. He doesn’t care for the safity of them. He wants to see things. He lies to them to get his way.

More about the life in the TARDIS

I love that we see more of the life inside the TARDIS. In this story the Doctor shows us for example how they get something to eat. This is something i miss in the new seasons. Here we see parts of their normal lifes between all the adventures.

The Daleks

This is the first time my favorite Monsters apears. I really love it. They are already the enemy but we got the story how they develope. This wasn’t an evil masterplan or anything. It was just the logic developement to survive.
But what i love the most of it is that there is no evil and dramatic over saving the world. Yes the Daleks want to exterminate the Thals. But the Doctor is not needed there and he doesn’t try to save anyone than himself and Susan. Also he had no problem with the destruction of the Daleks. He is responsible for the death of all Daleks in the city.

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December 8

DW: An unearthly child – rewatch

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I started my rewatch of Doctor Who and of course i start at the beginning with ‘An earthly child’. Just the first minutes were enough to remember why i don’t like Susan and love Ian and Barbara. Truth be told the first episode was kinda boring. Of course it is iconic and i love it but the first thing that i had problems with was the tempo of the stories. This is the reason why i say the first episode of boring. When we watch new series there happens so much in the first episode. Here just happend nothing. It is not a bad thing. I needed a few stories but i begann to love it. The story has enough time to evelope and the characters has so much time to shine.

The characters

They are so many things why i fall in love with the classic stories and almost everthing is already in the first epiosde. First of all the characters. I love a full TARDIS. So many people. I am not a big fan of Susan. She is the granddaugther of the Doctor and is almost everytime screaming…
Ian and Barbara are teachers. I love them so much. They stand on their own feets and have their own opinions. They stand up to the Doctor and don’t take any of his shit.
The second think is the Doctor. He is not nice or a hero. When the serie started he is the opposite. He is grumpy and just want help himself. Everything the new Doctor is started here with Ian and Barbara that teached him this.

They said that the Doctor always has the same character traits but that is not complitely true. He become that man because he captured and took Ian and Barbara away with him. He wanted to protect himself and got family. But it is a really hard and long way. Especially Ian and the Doctor are always fighting with each other. But they change each other. But this is a little forward for this story. With the knowledge what is to come and everything else you can see all that stuff already in this first adventure.

Watching or not

The story is not the best. It started with a story of cavemen that search for a way to make fire. It gets harder to find something to eat and who can make fire is the leader. The tribe our friends met or get captured by has took in a outsider who wants to become the leader too. So the son of the old leader are fighting for this place. The story is developing slow and most of the time our friends get theirself captured again and again. The story has a few strong points when you get to see more inside of our characters but apart form this the story doesn’t have much to offer. Just look it and enjoy that the Doctor is so totally differnt form the NewWho.

That is also the reason i will every Fan of NewWho tell that they should go and watch the classics. Because this is the journay that made the Doctor the person he is now. It was a developement. Everything that happend to the Doctor is changing him. Every companion has their influence on him. But Barbara and Ian are the most important. They teach him to care about other, they teach him to help. This developement is so amazing to see. So go and watch the classic who stories.

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November 30

DW: S09x11

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welcome to the new Doctor Who episode and the negative rant about it. It was not everything bad but as whole the episode doesn’t get me. There are so many things i really disliked. So you all know this is just me ranting over one of my favorite series that i don’t want to watch anymore but can’t stop.

One-man-show

Peter Capaldi is A+ actor and can totally rock a one-man-show but i am not a fan of it. It’s like a X files with just Mulder or just Scully… not the same and boring. The Doctor needs someone but i can overlook that he hasn’t one in this because the companion in this episode was still Clara. The way they let her play in this episode made me afraid that they would bring her back, but until now she is still dead. So this all alone thing is not my thing. But on the other hand my fears put aside, i like the way they made the Doctor talk with Clara, when she isn’t their anymore. With Adric death the Doctor was defeated. But here the Doctor is angry. Also the words of Clara are a highlight in the episode.

Boring…

Nothing happend… this is what happend in this episode. The Doctor is talking and wandering around… nothing more. He doesn’t know what all this is about and we don’t know. This whole construct doesn’t make any sense. They say that all rooms get set to zero or the starting point when he leaves… what can’t be. Because when it is that way how can he write brids in the sand, how can he find his clothes? Everything should have been away too. But it isn’t. The Doctor dies over and over again… just starting new everytime he dies…
But of course the crystal wall he is breaking is also not reseting…something here doesn’t make any sense.

Confessions

The Doctor has to confess thing to stop the monster from killing him. So he is talking about the time war, about being afraid, about a hybrid. Two things about the confessions. The idea is not so bad, but the confessions are. The Doctor tells us about a hybrid of a Dalek and… I hated the Dalekhybrid episode. This was a human-dalek Hybrid and that episode was so bad… and they weren’t really dangerous.
In the end he tells us or them that their of course is no dalekhybrid. What the heck? They got the prophecy wrong. They should be afraid of a Dalekhybrid. The hybrid that will stand in burn down grounds is me/ the Doctor. The way he says it i thing he really means himself. But i actually doesn’t like the human-timelord-hybrid eiter and ignored it. The Doctor is no on the way to destroy? He still has friends in Gallifrey. Some people thing he means ME, but we will see.
I don’t remember the scene. But i read a few posts about it that the Doctor left Gallifrey because he was afraid… i choose to forget that. Because he was not afraid. William Hartnells Doctor was a hard and closed old man. He was bored out of his mind. He could just see the world, he needed to experience it. He doesn’t thought of the races as bad or good. He just was interessted in them. All that… came when he started traveling with his first two companions. He was not afraid… and also William Hartnells Doctor dead because of old age. So stop with that crap.

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