Fictitious Endeavours

Again I ignored my stats.  I honestly think the Leela era was low on unconscious!Doctor.  And Leela doesn't get traumatized; she does the traumatizing.


The Underground

Slow, boring, terrible green screen effects while walking through a cave for some reason.  No enough K9 to make this episode fun. Just another crazed, megalomaniacal computer story.




The Invasion of Time

So - I pretty much love this episode. It's chaos, the story is all over the place, it's full on TARDIS tour time - in short everything I want from a Doctor who story.  The following is just a list of everything I'm squeeing about.  Sorrynotsorry

1)  A Gallifrey story.  So the Doctor is acting very odd and alien here.

2) K9 to TARDIS:  "Where is the Doctor? Speak!" 
TARDIS: ** Lights and beeps**
K9:  "You are a very stupid machine"  ETA Clip on reddit

3)  TARDIS swimming pool in Part 1

4) Part 6 All on TARDIS.
 a) store rooms aka warehouse
b) White brick corridors with pipe overhead
c)Excellent pool/ "bathroom"
d) Workshop
e)Industrial staircase with wire grid walls
f) "Sorry the lifts are broken"
g) Sick bay
h)Garden
i) Art gallery concealing the antcillary power station

5) I'm Sorry Borusa being Borusa is peak comedy:
 a) " I wish you'd stabilize your pedestrian infrastructure, President"
 b) chilling in a lounge chair reading the daily mirror and drinking blue cocktails with a crazy straw.

6) Andred fighting Sontarons by chucking said lounge chairs at them

7) I wonder if this was a goof. Sontaron goes skipping over corner of pool, hops onto another lounge chair which promptly collapses under him. If it hadn't collapsed he totally would have done a header into a stand of potted plants.

8) The Let's all go through a bunch of different doors and end up in the same place gag.

9) The huge sick bay chase. I know let's all hide behind a bunch of curtains

10) Romance Classic Who Style-    Andred gets a tiny shoulder wound from Sontaron gun and Leela takes him elsewhere to hide out for a while.  By the next scene she's leading him around by the hand.

11) Danger plants. Sontaron gets snagged by giant grabby plant

12) Running gag- storeroom (warehouse) inception. They keep ending up in the same storeroom and corridors leading up to it. Four keeps denying it is the same one.

So yes, I really like this story.  A nice goodbye for Leela and K9 Mark I.

More about my "educational youtube" fandoms

 But first?  Apparently the worlds oldest know written sentence is on a lice comb.  That's just so....


1)  PBS Storied.  Who doesn't love folklore?

2) Miniminuteman Gen Z baby archeologist, Tik-Tok alum, ranting about Ancient Alien-type conspiracy theories.  Fun, interesting, and oddly charming.

3) Nativlang  the best of the many (MANY) linguistics channels I follow.  (I'll spare you that level of uber-geekiness)

4) Not Just Bikes the best of the many city planning channels I follow.  (I'll spare you that too.)

Migraines suck, ya'll.  Continuing with my rewatch notes:


Four and Leela


The Horror of Fang Rock
 
Considered one of the must sees, and yes it's pretty well done.  Good story, decent suspense, pretty much what you want from a Doctor Who ep.  Four and Leela are almost pals in this one. And wow is the body count high here.

One side note/complaint- how did I not remember that the Rutans are glowing green goo jelly fish things? Ummm.  Just bonkers.  Even though they still talk about the Sontaran/Rutan war it's no wonder why only the Sontarans are seen these days.

The stats:

Did I mention the crazy high body count?

Four and Leela are the only ones without trauma in this story. (Unless you count finding all those dead people).



The Invisible Enemy

There is a definite Space 1999 vibe about these guys' space ship.

Lots of models used in the one, cute.

Leela using Four's scarf like a cuddle toy. Cute

Evil attack clouds. Not cute but A+ big bad.


Part 2

Four goes in to trance/coma to fight possession. Argues with the voice in his head.  Leela flies TARDIS to take Four to hospital.

K9!  I did not know that was coming. Built by a doctor at the house because he wanted a dog, makes sense.

The possession is catching. Not looking good for this Hospital.


Part 3

And now we are channeling Fantastic Voyage, and that one Gamera movie, and foreshadowing (or is that inspiring) Into the Dalek.

Leela's starting to bring out the Time Lord in Four. He's very rude and pompous.


Part 4

And I have no idea what's going on in this part. I think they just made a giant virus. Lol.


Best line -- "I only hope [K9]'s TARDIS trained."



The Stats

The Doctor:

1) Four zapped by evil cloud, knocked out possessed.

Companion Trauma:

None noted.  I guess Leela's too armed and dangerous.

Okay - I guess this counts as a fandom.  I will share one of the youtube channels I watch regularly. 

A chaos couple who are nominally makers but who do things no one should do and you can't help loving them for it.

It seems the fandom gods have spoken. (Or Tumblr. It was probably Tumblr.)


I'd never even heard about this and it's a crime because it's awesome.




Pigs in Space + Tenth Doctor? I didn't know I needed that.



I never heard of any live shows happening but it looked amazing.