Ah, the one where Adric dies. I'm starting the post a bit in, second episode I think. Did that Cyberman just call that other Cyberman "Linda"? They're exaggerating the antagonism between Adric and the Doctor because they know he's gonna die. He wants to go home - to E-space. Not possible, clearly, but Adric thinks it ought to be. The Doctor doesn't agree.
Ooh, the Cybermen are doing a little recap of the Doctor's interaction with them. Clips from the three old Cyberman episodes I ended up watching in research! Cool.
Aw, the Doctor is making up with Adric. Up. Awww..... they're so cute! Oh, Adric doesn't really want to go home. He just said it and calculated a route to make a point. They're so cute!! They just want to confuse your opinions of Adric, don't they? So you don't know what to think when he goes. Also, I have recently learned that Adric isn't the only companion who died. I'm not sure about the others but I'm pretty sure there are others. Oh no! Adric is coming out of the TARDIS to explore with the Doctor! At least the Doctor knows he's there for once. But Adric is the one sneaking about being cautious while the Doctor strides boldly around corners and says things like "I want to announce my PRESENCE!!"
Meehhhh, Adric is so nervous, he knows something's going to go wrong. Gah, I don't know if I'll be able to handle it! Well, ok. I will. But still! Oh, cool. Adric really does have mathematical excellence. He just took the square root of 3.somethingsomething in his head!
Hm, the Cybermen are much more expressive than I've ever seen them. They lean around and use a bit of body language, interact with each other. They're much more like people.
Oh yes, the obligatory "what use are emotions" conversation necessary in every Cyberman episode.
Oh, Adric! He didn't get the chance to see if his way to keep the ship from crashing was right because a Cyberman blasted the console and then he crashed into Earth and blew up and died!!! Oh, jesus... no sound over the end credits and just a picture of Adric's broken badge for mathematical excellence. Wow. Oh, Adric...
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Saturday, June 19, 2010
The Tenth Planet
I've decided not to go through all those episodes listed on the site I mentioned before. I'll do that later. Right now I've decided to go back and watch every Cyberman story in order. That'll hit every Doctor I'm pretty sure, and I'll get to watch a lot of episodes I skipped because I wanted to understand the Cybermen fully before I watched them at all. So I'm starting with the Tenth Planet, the second story of season 4. It was broadcast in 1966 and was the last story with William Hartnell. Here we go!
This episode was never colourized. And that last part actually wasn't lost by being lent to Blue Peter, if you want to believe tardis.wikia.com (which you should!). No one knows how it was lost, and it was some other episode that was lent out. So, theme song sounds good, jokes seem awful, and EW I think there are Americans. Well, ok. I think they're meant to be... multicultural? I don't know, but I think that's a black guy.
Oh, yeah. That's an American right there. No question. D'aw, the Doctor is like a cantankerous but loving old grandfather. GROSS! GET RID OF THE AMERICANS!!! Ew, they're so disgusting. Alright, alright, the Doctor is funny. The Americans are shouting unnecessarily and the Doctor goes "Why don't you speak louder, I'm deaf" in this brilliant monotone.
OOH, DUDE! So, this was broadcast in 1966, and the episode is set in 1986, and they go "So have you got to the moon yet?" and the future people say "Of course!" And also it seems to the companions (I honestly don't know who they are yet) like there are very few people around, but then they realize that computers must do all the work. Doesn't look too outlandish, so fas as I can tell.
They just found a new planet between Mars and Venus, and one guy says it looked familiar... dun dun DUN!!! Something about a tenth planet. Nothing notable yet. In fact, this is what the space program could have been like if it had maintained the kind of funding it had in 1969. Yeesh, Ben is astoundingly Northern.
Here they come! The Cybermen have upsetting fleshy hands. Eugh. And the Doctor's smugness I think only works in '60s black and white. So this tenth planet looks exactly like Earth only upside down (very clearly, but they seem to have a hard time seeing it). Mondas is the name of the Cybermen planet, Earth's old twin planet. And hee hee, there was a bit where the Doctor was "rushing" and he would have been running like the new Doctors if he hadn't been too old.
Jeeze, you really need to hear these guys. They sound like they're trying to overcome speech impediments. Oh, I see, the Cybermen want to take all our energy because Mondas is running out, and they'll take everyone on Earth back to Mondas. Lame.
I really just can't describe what this is like, it's so old... it's so foreign to me. Well, I guess not really, it's just an old scifi serial, but it's beyond explanation. I just don't know what to say about it. The music... the dialogue... so odd.
So apparently, William Hartnell was ill (which is why he isn't in the third part of this episode), and so the Doctor just passed out for absolutely no reason. Well, I guess he is 450 years old, that's enough of a reason.
So the crazy American wants to set off the Z bomb to destroy Mondas (and basically all life on Earth in the process with radiation), but Polly goes "This is clearly a terrible idea" and convinces the not-crazy American to pretend to follow his orders but in fact make sure the bomb doesn't launch. And the Doctor is simply out of commission, supposedly napping, but they just kind of avoid actually showing him. William Hartnell was lying around at home, presumably. Wow, that is a fantastically realistic drawing... um... no...
This episode is all diplomacy and policy. Just a bunch of men in a room talking forcefully, arguing and negotiating. Ah, he reminds Polly to take her coat as she is taken as a hostage... that must be significant, since that's a stupid thing to say otherwise.
That last bit was a bit confusing, seeing as it was mostly pictures and audio, with occasional explanations of what was going on that we couldn't see. Anyway, the Cybermen aren't that scary yet. But they do seem to have all died and their home planet was destroyed.
Quotes:
"That'll fix you, Europe will know there's an emergency here now!"
"Look, you just keep your mind on making coffee, will you?! ...I'm sorry, that was rude."
This episode was never colourized. And that last part actually wasn't lost by being lent to Blue Peter, if you want to believe tardis.wikia.com (which you should!). No one knows how it was lost, and it was some other episode that was lent out. So, theme song sounds good, jokes seem awful, and EW I think there are Americans. Well, ok. I think they're meant to be... multicultural? I don't know, but I think that's a black guy.
Oh, yeah. That's an American right there. No question. D'aw, the Doctor is like a cantankerous but loving old grandfather. GROSS! GET RID OF THE AMERICANS!!! Ew, they're so disgusting. Alright, alright, the Doctor is funny. The Americans are shouting unnecessarily and the Doctor goes "Why don't you speak louder, I'm deaf" in this brilliant monotone.
OOH, DUDE! So, this was broadcast in 1966, and the episode is set in 1986, and they go "So have you got to the moon yet?" and the future people say "Of course!" And also it seems to the companions (I honestly don't know who they are yet) like there are very few people around, but then they realize that computers must do all the work. Doesn't look too outlandish, so fas as I can tell.
They just found a new planet between Mars and Venus, and one guy says it looked familiar... dun dun DUN!!! Something about a tenth planet. Nothing notable yet. In fact, this is what the space program could have been like if it had maintained the kind of funding it had in 1969. Yeesh, Ben is astoundingly Northern.
Here they come! The Cybermen have upsetting fleshy hands. Eugh. And the Doctor's smugness I think only works in '60s black and white. So this tenth planet looks exactly like Earth only upside down (very clearly, but they seem to have a hard time seeing it). Mondas is the name of the Cybermen planet, Earth's old twin planet. And hee hee, there was a bit where the Doctor was "rushing" and he would have been running like the new Doctors if he hadn't been too old.
Jeeze, you really need to hear these guys. They sound like they're trying to overcome speech impediments. Oh, I see, the Cybermen want to take all our energy because Mondas is running out, and they'll take everyone on Earth back to Mondas. Lame.
I really just can't describe what this is like, it's so old... it's so foreign to me. Well, I guess not really, it's just an old scifi serial, but it's beyond explanation. I just don't know what to say about it. The music... the dialogue... so odd.
So apparently, William Hartnell was ill (which is why he isn't in the third part of this episode), and so the Doctor just passed out for absolutely no reason. Well, I guess he is 450 years old, that's enough of a reason.
So the crazy American wants to set off the Z bomb to destroy Mondas (and basically all life on Earth in the process with radiation), but Polly goes "This is clearly a terrible idea" and convinces the not-crazy American to pretend to follow his orders but in fact make sure the bomb doesn't launch. And the Doctor is simply out of commission, supposedly napping, but they just kind of avoid actually showing him. William Hartnell was lying around at home, presumably. Wow, that is a fantastically realistic drawing... um... no...
This episode is all diplomacy and policy. Just a bunch of men in a room talking forcefully, arguing and negotiating. Ah, he reminds Polly to take her coat as she is taken as a hostage... that must be significant, since that's a stupid thing to say otherwise.
That last bit was a bit confusing, seeing as it was mostly pictures and audio, with occasional explanations of what was going on that we couldn't see. Anyway, the Cybermen aren't that scary yet. But they do seem to have all died and their home planet was destroyed.
Quotes:
"That'll fix you, Europe will know there's an emergency here now!"
"Look, you just keep your mind on making coffee, will you?! ...I'm sorry, that was rude."
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