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Meglos (Four, Romana, K-9)

BARBARA! :D Took me until about the first half of the first part to place her. I kept thinking she looked familiar.
Heh. Amusing moment when this disembodied voice turned out to be coming from the cactus. "That's right! I'm a plant, baby! BOO!"
And apparently this plant, sorry, Meglos has the ability to use time to his advantage, trapping the Doctor and Romana in a time fold. Plants are CRAFTY.
For some reason I really like seeing the Doctor meeting someone he already knows. No, he doesn't have ties to people, but he *does* have a past. Unrelated, I also find it amusing when he plows ahead until someone does an "other way, Doctor!"
I rather liked that a character was questioning their total dependence on an object they really knew nothing about. A bit too late, but still. Yay for reason!
HA! "Here, hold up this wall" actually worked. :D

Full Circle (Four, Romana, K-9, Adric)

You know, I've noticed I head-bob to this new theme intro whenever it's on. I'm a DORK. But I still think the floating heads are weird. So glad they dropped that in New Who. Could you picture the disembodied face of a manic David Tennant coming at you? Ye gods! Anyway...
Romana's room! Very 70s modern. And white. Love seeing other rooms in the TARDIS.
Nice reference to the Doctor getting smacked down by the Time Lords back with his exile to Earth.
Hmm. From what I'd heard, I guess I wasn't expecting the Doctor to be so "right then, off you go" about Romana going back to Gallifrey. She was a bit upset, but he wasn't. She was moping in her room while the Doctor was yelling from down the hall, "Come on! Gallifrey!" He didn't even seem to be faking it. But maybe all that comes later.
Hi, Adric! Poor kid never stood a chance with the audience. Not when one of his first lines was,"of *course* I'm better than you!"
Ah, so this episode is Creature from the Black Lagoon. Heh heh. And a cross between BSG with a colony of people trying to find a new home. Nice little twist at the end though.
I'm a bit confused as to what "E Space" is really supposed to be. It *seems* like it's just another parallel world...
THEY KNOCKED K-9'S HEAD OFF! Quit whumping K-9!! *flails*
Little punk-ass teenagers stole the TARDIS! And as they all come out, "what is this, Noah's ark?" Heh heh.
The Doctor mentioned that the TARDIS can't do short hops, which I've heard in Classic Who before. Wonder when that changed. And also, since I'm thinking about differences, wonder when the whole TARDIS translating all languages changed too.
Ooooh. Doctor of Rage! Pretty rare with laid-back Four, but he does it so well.
Oh, Adric. Something tells me the Doctor's not going to be pleased you decided to stowaway on the TARDIS. But since you apparently evolved from a spider, you probably had the natural urge to skitter into a dark corner and hide.

I'm a bit confused as to what "E Space" is really supposed to be. It *seems* like it's just another parallel world...

Not parallel, just separate. Alzarius isn't an alternate version of the planet the scanner was showing, just the one that happens to be at the negative value of those coordinates. Like Chicago and...er...somewhere in Peru or something. If the equator were a nearly-impassable time/space boundary.

As for the short hops, there's a bit in one of the stories (I think "State of Decay") where the Doctor claims that it's easier to control the short hops because E-space as a whole is smaller than our space. Which makes no sense, since negative numbers extend just as infinitely as positive ones. I think maybe it was the handwave Terrance Dicks came up with when somebody said, "Gee, there are an awful lot of short hops working awfully successfully all of a sudden. Isn't the TARDIS supposed to suck at those?"

But since you apparently evolved from a spider, you probably had the natural urge to skitter into a dark corner and hide.

BWAH!! Unfortunately for him, a great many people wish he'd stayed there. Poor kid. :: gives him a cookie ::

Not parallel, just separate. Alzarius isn't an alternate version of the planet the scanner was showing, just the one that happens to be at the negative value of those coordinates. Like Chicago and...er...somewhere in Peru or something. If the equator were a nearly-impassable time/space boundary.

Erm...okay. I'll take it. :D

As for the short hops, there's a bit in one of the stories (I think "State of Decay") where the Doctor claims that it's easier to control the short hops because E-space as a whole is smaller than our space. Which makes no sense, since negative numbers extend just as infinitely as positive ones. I think maybe it was the handwave Terrance Dicks came up with when somebody said, "Gee, there are an awful lot of short hops working awfully successfully all of a sudden. Isn't the TARDIS supposed to suck at those?"

HA!!! I love that fans aren't the only ones that have to try and spackle in the holes. :D

BWAH!! Unfortunately for him, a great many people wish he'd stayed there. Poor kid. :: gives him a cookie ::

I really don't have the Adric hate that I think many do, but I can see where the dislike comes from. He's just not that likeable of a character.

THEY KNOCKED K-9'S HEAD OFF! Quit whumping K-9!! *flails*

Oh, but then we wouldn't have the CLASSIC visual of the Doctor holding it up like a mask and confusing poor possessed!Romana. Kills me every time.

*snickers* That was pretty funny. Although it instantly reminded me of an MST3K episode where they were watching a Gumby short. It ended with a robot going berzerk, and for some reason, put his little clay head on the Gumby garage. And the MST3K robots were disturbed. :D

"OH MY GOD! THEY MOUNTED HIS HEAD!!"

"HE WAS JUST AN INNOCENT ROBOT! OH, THE HUMANITY!"

"HOLD ME!!"

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