mrv3000 | Back at it again.

This makes my 99th classic Who episode. I've got cake for number 100. No, wait. I ate the cake. I have... *checks* Eggs. And wine! WOO!

The Masque of Mandragora (Four, Sarah Jane)

*snickers* There's a "boot cupboard" on the TARDIS that looks like a huge living room, but with one pair of lonely boots sitting by the door. And so it's a boot cupboard. :D Also, talk of the TARDIS being infinite in size – makes a weird sort of sense, I guess. It really exists in another dimension, and so it can go on forever?
Ah, the second control room...that may or may not have been the original control room. *snickers again*
Wow, is it just me or did the Doctor land in the middle of a fairly quality story? I mean...it's not the run-of-the-mill cheesy stuff this time. Well, there's this energy orb and the cult, and that's pretty typical DW, but this whole thing with the Duke and the astrology and plots against his life – the Doctor's landed in the middle of Masterpiece Theatre this go-round! It's like...GOOD. Let's be honest – this is not typical Who. It did eventually get a bit dry and kind of dissolved into the alien plot, but still.
Hmm. Is Tom Baker a horseman? This isn't the first time they've stuck him on a horse. Might not even be the second. Oh wait – horse in a future episode, so this could have been the first time they stuck him on a horse... You know what I mean! Four rides horses.
Hahahahahaha! I love how the Doctor just slowly slides Sarah Jane off the sacrificial altar, and no one notices!! Stealth rescue in plain sight!
The Doctor decides to help after an ego-stroke. Love it. :D And he gives himself applause at the end and no one else joins him in the applause, however that really doesn't seem to make a difference to the Doctor. *falls over*
Ah, so perhaps a theme of this episode is kidnapping? As Sarah Jane keeps getting kidnapped about every five minutes. (And hypnotized. The story of Sarah Jane's life. Too bad they didn't have some sort of hypnosis joke in School Reunion.)
Sarah Jane: "You know, the worse the situation, the worse your jokes get." MWAH!
It's interesting that the Doctor throws out the reason for laying the smack down on the alien was that supposedly Time Lords believe in justice for all. Which may be true, but don't think they ever actually carried out the "justice." And that's the big difference between the Doctor and the Time Lords. Of course, being judge, jury and executioner can have him winding up in a frickin' weird place, as we've seen often enough in New Who. *shudders*