The Mysterious Planet
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eve11Guys, why did no one tell me? This episode ROCKS!
All the posturing and shouting and arguing and bravado, I love it! I love how the Doctor and the Valeyard and the Inquisitor are all meta. Like, "Must we see all this violence?" Ha!!!
I totally love the Valeyard. And the episode was great, the primitive people on the surface under crazy Boudicea lady, and the random Persons Living Underground in the London Tubes (that are somehow lightyears away from where earth should be), and the scenes of people running around the woods, and Balazar who studies the ancient sacred text of The Habitats of the Canadian Goose by H. M. Stationery Office. And Sabalom Glitz, who is like the Doctor Who version of Han Solo. and a Giant Robot named Drathro, who at the end of the episode packed his little robot bag of secrets for his trip to the spaceship so he could survive; I kind of felt bad for him there, even though he didn't care if the rest of humanity died when his black light source went kablooey. Poor six kept getting tied up or shot or stoned or whatever else, but he made it through and got to have a philosophical debate with the giant robot, and he and Peri were completely cute together in this episode too.
Oh, I like the beginning sequence too, with the big space station. I think also, that it's the 80's synthesizer music that most makes me think about Dune at the beginning. Anyway, the set up is interesting too. Who's messing with the Matrix evidence? What's the Valeyard's beef (um, yeah, I KNOW who he is and everything, but I'm setting that aside for now)? Why does he get the least silly of all the silly hats?
Anyway, this episode was utter crack, but I love how it told the story of so many minor characters. Grel and Metro, and the two boys working for Drathro, and Glitz and Dipper, and Broken tooth and Balazar and Katrynka-- it was crack, sure, but it was very entertaining.
All the posturing and shouting and arguing and bravado, I love it! I love how the Doctor and the Valeyard and the Inquisitor are all meta. Like, "Must we see all this violence?" Ha!!!
I totally love the Valeyard. And the episode was great, the primitive people on the surface under crazy Boudicea lady, and the random Persons Living Underground in the London Tubes (that are somehow lightyears away from where earth should be), and the scenes of people running around the woods, and Balazar who studies the ancient sacred text of The Habitats of the Canadian Goose by H. M. Stationery Office. And Sabalom Glitz, who is like the Doctor Who version of Han Solo. and a Giant Robot named Drathro, who at the end of the episode packed his little robot bag of secrets for his trip to the spaceship so he could survive; I kind of felt bad for him there, even though he didn't care if the rest of humanity died when his black light source went kablooey. Poor six kept getting tied up or shot or stoned or whatever else, but he made it through and got to have a philosophical debate with the giant robot, and he and Peri were completely cute together in this episode too.
Oh, I like the beginning sequence too, with the big space station. I think also, that it's the 80's synthesizer music that most makes me think about Dune at the beginning. Anyway, the set up is interesting too. Who's messing with the Matrix evidence? What's the Valeyard's beef (um, yeah, I KNOW who he is and everything, but I'm setting that aside for now)? Why does he get the least silly of all the silly hats?
Anyway, this episode was utter crack, but I love how it told the story of so many minor characters. Grel and Metro, and the two boys working for Drathro, and Glitz and Dipper, and Broken tooth and Balazar and Katrynka-- it was crack, sure, but it was very entertaining.
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Date: 2009-10-11 01:50 pm (UTC)Why does he get the least silly of all the silly hats?
He's wearing a shiny, vinyl skullcap. It says something about this show that the standards for silly hats are so high that this could be considered the most sensible of them. Something good.