Retrun of the Old Serials!
Regular readers of my blog (which are, coincidencially, the only readers of my blog) will probably not remember until I remind them with this sentence that a while back I decided to do a few blog posts mocking old Doctor Who serials. The reason being I like Doctor Who, but wow, is it sometimes crap.
Last time though, I was picking on the old 60's serials. And maybe that was a bit mean, because everybody knows science didn't exist in the 1960's so it was perfectly acceptable for people to make plots that involve aliens planning to turn the planet Earth into a spaceship for no apparent reason. In fact, picking on a BBC serial from the 60's is just a little bit mean. We're talking an era where they had such little budget they had to tape over last week's episode just to film it because they didn't have enough tapes. I mean, when they went to the producers and said 'we want to make an episode where the Daleks conquer Earth in the far flung future, can we have some more budget' the producers must have replied 'sure, here's a tenner and a digestive biscuit'. And yet those 60's serials still tried. They never wimped out and gave us budget saving episodes. Everything was always over the top and grand. Even today, most TV shows wouldn't try to pull off an entire planet that's been conquered by a mavolent alien race, complete with flying saucers and heat rays and thousands of robotic warriors. But in the 60's, they did everything basically, and bad resolution, black and white tele and the fact most people didn't know any better did the work and they got away with it.
This time, we're going into the far flung future of 1981, because Doctor Who didn't improve, it got worse. At least the old 60's serials were fun, in a hilarious way.
Recently, David Tennant announced he was leaving the show, and I thought, being a fan, it'd be good to watch the departure of Tom Baker, to get an idea of how they previously handled such a popular incarnation of the character leaving. I didn't expect much, but thought at least we'd get a fun adventure big on imagination but low on budget (which might as well be the BBC's motto; 'ambitious but rubbish'... oh, wait). What I got was a serial called Logopolis, an adventure as pointless and ridiculous as its title.
While the 60's managed to scrape by their ridiculous concepts by maxamising their resources ('oh, those rocks will do for an alien planet') someone somewhere got their priorities very wrong on this particular adventure. For example, when the script actually called for some rocks, we get...
I mean, how hard was it to go outside, and find some rocks? I mean, hey, they seem to do it in every other episode when they need an alien planet! Were rocks particularly scarce in 1981? Who here decided, 'oh, I know what, let's make it out of polystyrene!'. What's worse is how you hear it squeak as they try to walk on it. Really, 1980's BBC, next time you need some rocks, ask me, I'm sure I can find you some!
Now, I'm not going to just post screenshots of bad special effects and mock them. That'll come later. Firstly, I'm actually going to try and summarise the plot. Bare with me, because this is so stupid it's going to get painful.
In the previous serial, the Master, the arch-enemy of the Doctor, returned, sat in a chair for a bit, and then got killed off screen by some techno-babble. Obviously, considering he died with nobody seeing him die and there was no body he's definitely Dead Forever and therefore everybody saunters off happily. Everybody being the Doctor and his infuriatingly annoying young male companion, who's only calling appears to be to be good at maths and wear pajamas as his everyday clothes. Rather than confirm his arch-enemy is indeed dead, and say, not still alive (for no apparent reason of course, why explain how he survived?), the Doctor instead decides...to fix the ability of the TARDIS to shapeshift.
Okay, I think. Fair enough. I suppose it's a little bit like deciding to finally put a shelf up to take your mind off things. Except who actually does that? Anyway, the Doctor decides that the only way to do this is to materialise the TARDIS around a real police box so he can measure it and then take the measurements to The Planet of Maths. I know 'theme' planets are popular in sci-fi, 'Snow Planets', 'Forest Planets', etc., but a Maths Planet!? It's like something from my worse nightmares (except in that nightmare Dr McCann is the planet's king).
Naturally, this takes up two minutes of the opening episode before they get into the real adventure and was just a plot device to land them in the right place. Oh, wait. No, actually it takes up the entire first episode. Yes, the first episode of the death of Tom Baker, the most population incarnation of a very popular character, is spent measuring things. But it's not all boring! Because we have regular cuts to a seemingly random air hostess....changing a tire.
I swear, I'm not making this up.
Okay, so the air hostess eventually stumbles into the TARDIS and becomes a main character, but still. Anyway, so it turns out the police box they materialised around is already a TARDIS, and belongs to the Master! This was a cunning trap to get a TARDIS inside a TARDIS which for some reason causes some problems that they never really explain and just spend a lot of time worrying about and then forget! Dastardly. Anyway, apparently if you walk inside a TARDIS inside a TARDIS you're then back inside the original TARDIS at the door, and it just loops going on forever. I'm not sure how that works, but since I got an F in TARDIS Space Time Physics I guess I'll just have to accept it. I'd of thought you'd just, y'know, end up inside the second TARDIS and everything would be fine.
And yes, I realise how geeky that paragraph is because I keep insisting to captalise TARDIS.
Anyway, so they abandon their trip to the Planet of Maths (there was much rejoicing!) because it's far too dangerous to go there with the Master on board (maybe he hates maths as much as me) and come up with by far the best plan in the history of fantastic plans. You see, the Master has dematerliased his TARDIS somewhere else in their TARDIS and they can't find it, so they need to draw him out. The Doctor develops a brilliant plan. He will materialise the TARDIS underwater, open the doors, and flood the Master out!
Again, I'm really, honestly not making this up.
He asks his young companion 'can you swim?'. A better question might have been 'can you breathe underwater?'. Or 'Are all these computer systems water proof?'. Or 'Surely the Master will just sit inside his TARDIS with the doors closed and be fine?'. But still. So, they intiate Plan Awesome. Except, when they open the doors, there's no water!
'Oh, the budget's run out' I thought. Oh no. Because....
...they missed!
Again, I'm not making this up. It turns out they were going to land in the Thames but missed and landed on a barge. Apparently, they can afford a boat on the Thames but not some rocks. Go figure. Still, don't worry! Surely they can just move a few meters to the left and continue with Plan Awesome, right?
Except, no. Apparently, plans foiled, they forget about this idea. Urr, okay. Maybe they finally realised they were being retarded beyond belief.
And then things change, because a random bloke in white sheets appears on a bridge, and waves to them! (This bloke has been in a few scenes, just randomly standing there, to which nobody has said anything).
The Doctor finally spots him and goes to tell him he looks ridiculous. Or at least, that's what I assume he said, as I can't imagine he'd say anything else to him. He goes off, does that, comes back, and decides they have to go to the Planet of Maths. Yes, that planet that they decided in the last scene it'd be far far too dangerous to go to with the Master.
They arrive on the Planet of Maths, where people are so good at maths they can make anything they want happen by chanting 'maths' at it. Which actually means mumbling random gibberish. Apparently science hadn't been invented in 1981 either because nobody was aware this idea was retarded as well. On top of that, for some reason on the Planet of Maths there is a replica of the 'Pharos Project', which is apparently a ginormous satellite used to try and contact alien races on Earth. Y'know the type, where people waste billions on sending out messages to try and find aliesn and never find anything. Either way, according to my attempts to find out about it bringing me back to only information on Doctor Who, I assume it's not real which makes it a little bit more bizarre than it already is. These aliens have a replica of a non-existant Earth satellite dish on their Planet of Maths. The characters spot it, mention it once, then carry on as if it's not there...
We're not given an explanation for its presence when they spot it, of course.
Anyway, we get them wondering around and talking about maths for a good long while (exciting final adventure this), while we get random shots of the Master stood around laughing. That's all he does. He just stands there and laughs. Nobody says anything to him. I assume they just think he's some drunk hobo and that they had better not disturb him. He just randomly appears in bizarre corners cackling.
Eventually, he reveals himself, and puts the entire Planet of Maths into stasis! This is after a completely pointless plan to shrink the TARDIS and kill the Doctor by, well, making him small I guess. It might seem stupid but throughout the episode they find corpses that look like this:
Yes, apparently the Master kills people by turning them into little dolls. Anyway, so he holds the Planet of Maths to ransom by putting it in stasis for whatever reason he'd do a thing like that. Personally I think he was there to demand maths be stricken from the national curriculum. But suddenly he's told he's been a fool because the Planet of Maths was vital for the safety of the universe! He claims this is bullshit, naturally, and proves it by deactivating his stasis field. Which is a bit like holding someone hostage and then when they say 'I promise I won't call the cops if you let me go' you go 'I bet you will, watch, I'll let you go and prove it'. Anyway, it's revealed that the purpose of the Pharos Project on the Planet of Maths is to....hold the entire universe together.
So, hang on, let's recap. The Planet of Maths has a replica of an Earth satellite designed purely to monitor space transmissions in the hope of contacting alien life and having this somehow allows them to hold the entire universe together? Apparently, the universe is older than anybody thought and long ago would have died from heat death had it not been for the Planet of Maths constant chanting. Oops, says the Master, and they come up with a plan to save the universe.
Yep, they join forces. A good part of Tom Baker's final story is spent working with his arch enemy. Anyway, the Planet of Maths is destroyed as 'entropy' spreads across the universe (and there was much rejoicing!) meaning the only place such technology exists to save the universe now is.... Earth. Yes, apparently the big satellite contains more advanced technology than a time machine that's bigger on the inside than the outside and powered by a black hole. Sure. Whatever.
So they go there, which cuts to some hilarious scenes where they run around avoiding security guards in their ridiculous costumes, looking so out of place you don't even need the camp 80's chase music to make it funny. Eventually, they climb the tower, spout some techno babble and build a machine that as long as it's kept connected will stop the entropy spreading throughout the universe and save the day.
It's worth pointing out this is after a scene portrays a third of the universe being destroyed. I like to point that out because as far as I'm aware of it gives the Master the biggest most evil act in fictionlised history. It also makes that part in new Doctor Who where David Tennant tells the Master 'I forgive you' hilarious because you'd think if anything was going to be unforgiveable destroying a THIRD OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE would be it.
Anyway, sit tight, we're almost done. The Master suddenly reveals he's been evil all along (shocking, I know) and that now he holds the power to rule the universe, because if they don't obey him, he can disconnect the device and blow up the entire universe. Hilariously, he uses the Pharos Project to send out his message of universal domination. Given that (according to the story) people have been trying to use it for decades to contact just one alien and failing why he seems to think his message will get to the entire universe (he even starts it with 'peoples of the universe, please attend carefully...') is a mystery.
So the Doctor replies 'You only have that power as long as that cable stays connected!'. Apparently he's forgotten that that's the whole point, and if you disconnect the cable the universe will blow up. But don't worry, because so have the writers. So the Doctor makes a last ditch effort to crawl out onto the radio dish and pull out the cable to save the universe from the Master. The Master begins to rotate the dish so he falls off. Which leads to the most hilarious scene in the entire thing.
The Doctor clings to the rotating bridge part of the dish, which is just really bad polystrene rotating slowly on a cut out background which is totally out of proportion with what's going on. It looks about as dangerous as falling off a kerb. But that's not the funny bit. The funny bit is the Master in the background.
There he is, look, cackling. Except, he's not. The thing is, and you can only really see this when it's moving (at which point it's obvious), he's a cardboard cut out. He doesn't move at all. There's just a cardboard cut out of him grinning there in the background as the Doctor fights for his life. Why they could afford a cardboard cut out of an actor they actually had on set anyway but not some rocks, I don't know, but it's pretty damn funny.
The Doctor manages to pull out the cable but falls to his death, having visions of villains from other, better episodes taunting him as he does so. Which actually works pretty well, because it reminds you after this 'epic adventure' this character is supposed to have stopped all kinds of evil plots and toppled villains with better plans than turning people into dolls.
Anyway, so the Doctor lies there dying and Captain Sheets shows up again. Leading to a character exclaiming 'so he was the Doctor all the time!', as opposed to the more realistic 'hey, why's there a random guy in sheets over there?'. Anyway, so Captain Sheets walks into the Doctor and he regenerates. There's no real explanation as to what they meant or who he was or why he was there but hey, that's the least of the problems.
So, the Fourth Doctor dies saving at least two thirds of the universe by pulling out a cable and then falling off a bad special effect. Although, hey, at least they can use this to prepare for David Tennant's departure. They can look at this and then go 'hey, let's do the exact opposite' and it should be great.
I'm also aware I've just written probably my longest blog ever on Doctor Who and since I'm the only one who likes it that means nobody will make it this far except for me. I'm also aware that this entire blog could be replaced by '1980's sci-fi is rubbish, especially if made by the BBC', which in itself doesn't need to be said. If you did make it this far, well....
I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.
Last time though, I was picking on the old 60's serials. And maybe that was a bit mean, because everybody knows science didn't exist in the 1960's so it was perfectly acceptable for people to make plots that involve aliens planning to turn the planet Earth into a spaceship for no apparent reason. In fact, picking on a BBC serial from the 60's is just a little bit mean. We're talking an era where they had such little budget they had to tape over last week's episode just to film it because they didn't have enough tapes. I mean, when they went to the producers and said 'we want to make an episode where the Daleks conquer Earth in the far flung future, can we have some more budget' the producers must have replied 'sure, here's a tenner and a digestive biscuit'. And yet those 60's serials still tried. They never wimped out and gave us budget saving episodes. Everything was always over the top and grand. Even today, most TV shows wouldn't try to pull off an entire planet that's been conquered by a mavolent alien race, complete with flying saucers and heat rays and thousands of robotic warriors. But in the 60's, they did everything basically, and bad resolution, black and white tele and the fact most people didn't know any better did the work and they got away with it.
This time, we're going into the far flung future of 1981, because Doctor Who didn't improve, it got worse. At least the old 60's serials were fun, in a hilarious way.
Recently, David Tennant announced he was leaving the show, and I thought, being a fan, it'd be good to watch the departure of Tom Baker, to get an idea of how they previously handled such a popular incarnation of the character leaving. I didn't expect much, but thought at least we'd get a fun adventure big on imagination but low on budget (which might as well be the BBC's motto; 'ambitious but rubbish'... oh, wait). What I got was a serial called Logopolis, an adventure as pointless and ridiculous as its title.
While the 60's managed to scrape by their ridiculous concepts by maxamising their resources ('oh, those rocks will do for an alien planet') someone somewhere got their priorities very wrong on this particular adventure. For example, when the script actually called for some rocks, we get...
I mean, how hard was it to go outside, and find some rocks? I mean, hey, they seem to do it in every other episode when they need an alien planet! Were rocks particularly scarce in 1981? Who here decided, 'oh, I know what, let's make it out of polystyrene!'. What's worse is how you hear it squeak as they try to walk on it. Really, 1980's BBC, next time you need some rocks, ask me, I'm sure I can find you some!
Now, I'm not going to just post screenshots of bad special effects and mock them. That'll come later. Firstly, I'm actually going to try and summarise the plot. Bare with me, because this is so stupid it's going to get painful.
In the previous serial, the Master, the arch-enemy of the Doctor, returned, sat in a chair for a bit, and then got killed off screen by some techno-babble. Obviously, considering he died with nobody seeing him die and there was no body he's definitely Dead Forever and therefore everybody saunters off happily. Everybody being the Doctor and his infuriatingly annoying young male companion, who's only calling appears to be to be good at maths and wear pajamas as his everyday clothes. Rather than confirm his arch-enemy is indeed dead, and say, not still alive (for no apparent reason of course, why explain how he survived?), the Doctor instead decides...to fix the ability of the TARDIS to shapeshift.
Okay, I think. Fair enough. I suppose it's a little bit like deciding to finally put a shelf up to take your mind off things. Except who actually does that? Anyway, the Doctor decides that the only way to do this is to materialise the TARDIS around a real police box so he can measure it and then take the measurements to The Planet of Maths. I know 'theme' planets are popular in sci-fi, 'Snow Planets', 'Forest Planets', etc., but a Maths Planet!? It's like something from my worse nightmares (except in that nightmare Dr McCann is the planet's king).
Naturally, this takes up two minutes of the opening episode before they get into the real adventure and was just a plot device to land them in the right place. Oh, wait. No, actually it takes up the entire first episode. Yes, the first episode of the death of Tom Baker, the most population incarnation of a very popular character, is spent measuring things. But it's not all boring! Because we have regular cuts to a seemingly random air hostess....changing a tire.
I swear, I'm not making this up.
Okay, so the air hostess eventually stumbles into the TARDIS and becomes a main character, but still. Anyway, so it turns out the police box they materialised around is already a TARDIS, and belongs to the Master! This was a cunning trap to get a TARDIS inside a TARDIS which for some reason causes some problems that they never really explain and just spend a lot of time worrying about and then forget! Dastardly. Anyway, apparently if you walk inside a TARDIS inside a TARDIS you're then back inside the original TARDIS at the door, and it just loops going on forever. I'm not sure how that works, but since I got an F in TARDIS Space Time Physics I guess I'll just have to accept it. I'd of thought you'd just, y'know, end up inside the second TARDIS and everything would be fine.
And yes, I realise how geeky that paragraph is because I keep insisting to captalise TARDIS.
Anyway, so they abandon their trip to the Planet of Maths (there was much rejoicing!) because it's far too dangerous to go there with the Master on board (maybe he hates maths as much as me) and come up with by far the best plan in the history of fantastic plans. You see, the Master has dematerliased his TARDIS somewhere else in their TARDIS and they can't find it, so they need to draw him out. The Doctor develops a brilliant plan. He will materialise the TARDIS underwater, open the doors, and flood the Master out!
Again, I'm really, honestly not making this up.
He asks his young companion 'can you swim?'. A better question might have been 'can you breathe underwater?'. Or 'Are all these computer systems water proof?'. Or 'Surely the Master will just sit inside his TARDIS with the doors closed and be fine?'. But still. So, they intiate Plan Awesome. Except, when they open the doors, there's no water!
'Oh, the budget's run out' I thought. Oh no. Because....
...they missed!
Again, I'm not making this up. It turns out they were going to land in the Thames but missed and landed on a barge. Apparently, they can afford a boat on the Thames but not some rocks. Go figure. Still, don't worry! Surely they can just move a few meters to the left and continue with Plan Awesome, right?
Except, no. Apparently, plans foiled, they forget about this idea. Urr, okay. Maybe they finally realised they were being retarded beyond belief.
And then things change, because a random bloke in white sheets appears on a bridge, and waves to them! (This bloke has been in a few scenes, just randomly standing there, to which nobody has said anything).
The Doctor finally spots him and goes to tell him he looks ridiculous. Or at least, that's what I assume he said, as I can't imagine he'd say anything else to him. He goes off, does that, comes back, and decides they have to go to the Planet of Maths. Yes, that planet that they decided in the last scene it'd be far far too dangerous to go to with the Master.
They arrive on the Planet of Maths, where people are so good at maths they can make anything they want happen by chanting 'maths' at it. Which actually means mumbling random gibberish. Apparently science hadn't been invented in 1981 either because nobody was aware this idea was retarded as well. On top of that, for some reason on the Planet of Maths there is a replica of the 'Pharos Project', which is apparently a ginormous satellite used to try and contact alien races on Earth. Y'know the type, where people waste billions on sending out messages to try and find aliesn and never find anything. Either way, according to my attempts to find out about it bringing me back to only information on Doctor Who, I assume it's not real which makes it a little bit more bizarre than it already is. These aliens have a replica of a non-existant Earth satellite dish on their Planet of Maths. The characters spot it, mention it once, then carry on as if it's not there...
We're not given an explanation for its presence when they spot it, of course.
Anyway, we get them wondering around and talking about maths for a good long while (exciting final adventure this), while we get random shots of the Master stood around laughing. That's all he does. He just stands there and laughs. Nobody says anything to him. I assume they just think he's some drunk hobo and that they had better not disturb him. He just randomly appears in bizarre corners cackling.
Eventually, he reveals himself, and puts the entire Planet of Maths into stasis! This is after a completely pointless plan to shrink the TARDIS and kill the Doctor by, well, making him small I guess. It might seem stupid but throughout the episode they find corpses that look like this:
Yes, apparently the Master kills people by turning them into little dolls. Anyway, so he holds the Planet of Maths to ransom by putting it in stasis for whatever reason he'd do a thing like that. Personally I think he was there to demand maths be stricken from the national curriculum. But suddenly he's told he's been a fool because the Planet of Maths was vital for the safety of the universe! He claims this is bullshit, naturally, and proves it by deactivating his stasis field. Which is a bit like holding someone hostage and then when they say 'I promise I won't call the cops if you let me go' you go 'I bet you will, watch, I'll let you go and prove it'. Anyway, it's revealed that the purpose of the Pharos Project on the Planet of Maths is to....hold the entire universe together.
So, hang on, let's recap. The Planet of Maths has a replica of an Earth satellite designed purely to monitor space transmissions in the hope of contacting alien life and having this somehow allows them to hold the entire universe together? Apparently, the universe is older than anybody thought and long ago would have died from heat death had it not been for the Planet of Maths constant chanting. Oops, says the Master, and they come up with a plan to save the universe.
Yep, they join forces. A good part of Tom Baker's final story is spent working with his arch enemy. Anyway, the Planet of Maths is destroyed as 'entropy' spreads across the universe (and there was much rejoicing!) meaning the only place such technology exists to save the universe now is.... Earth. Yes, apparently the big satellite contains more advanced technology than a time machine that's bigger on the inside than the outside and powered by a black hole. Sure. Whatever.
So they go there, which cuts to some hilarious scenes where they run around avoiding security guards in their ridiculous costumes, looking so out of place you don't even need the camp 80's chase music to make it funny. Eventually, they climb the tower, spout some techno babble and build a machine that as long as it's kept connected will stop the entropy spreading throughout the universe and save the day.
It's worth pointing out this is after a scene portrays a third of the universe being destroyed. I like to point that out because as far as I'm aware of it gives the Master the biggest most evil act in fictionlised history. It also makes that part in new Doctor Who where David Tennant tells the Master 'I forgive you' hilarious because you'd think if anything was going to be unforgiveable destroying a THIRD OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE would be it.
Anyway, sit tight, we're almost done. The Master suddenly reveals he's been evil all along (shocking, I know) and that now he holds the power to rule the universe, because if they don't obey him, he can disconnect the device and blow up the entire universe. Hilariously, he uses the Pharos Project to send out his message of universal domination. Given that (according to the story) people have been trying to use it for decades to contact just one alien and failing why he seems to think his message will get to the entire universe (he even starts it with 'peoples of the universe, please attend carefully...') is a mystery.
So the Doctor replies 'You only have that power as long as that cable stays connected!'. Apparently he's forgotten that that's the whole point, and if you disconnect the cable the universe will blow up. But don't worry, because so have the writers. So the Doctor makes a last ditch effort to crawl out onto the radio dish and pull out the cable to save the universe from the Master. The Master begins to rotate the dish so he falls off. Which leads to the most hilarious scene in the entire thing.
The Doctor clings to the rotating bridge part of the dish, which is just really bad polystrene rotating slowly on a cut out background which is totally out of proportion with what's going on. It looks about as dangerous as falling off a kerb. But that's not the funny bit. The funny bit is the Master in the background.
There he is, look, cackling. Except, he's not. The thing is, and you can only really see this when it's moving (at which point it's obvious), he's a cardboard cut out. He doesn't move at all. There's just a cardboard cut out of him grinning there in the background as the Doctor fights for his life. Why they could afford a cardboard cut out of an actor they actually had on set anyway but not some rocks, I don't know, but it's pretty damn funny.
The Doctor manages to pull out the cable but falls to his death, having visions of villains from other, better episodes taunting him as he does so. Which actually works pretty well, because it reminds you after this 'epic adventure' this character is supposed to have stopped all kinds of evil plots and toppled villains with better plans than turning people into dolls.
Anyway, so the Doctor lies there dying and Captain Sheets shows up again. Leading to a character exclaiming 'so he was the Doctor all the time!', as opposed to the more realistic 'hey, why's there a random guy in sheets over there?'. Anyway, so Captain Sheets walks into the Doctor and he regenerates. There's no real explanation as to what they meant or who he was or why he was there but hey, that's the least of the problems.
So, the Fourth Doctor dies saving at least two thirds of the universe by pulling out a cable and then falling off a bad special effect. Although, hey, at least they can use this to prepare for David Tennant's departure. They can look at this and then go 'hey, let's do the exact opposite' and it should be great.
I'm also aware I've just written probably my longest blog ever on Doctor Who and since I'm the only one who likes it that means nobody will make it this far except for me. I'm also aware that this entire blog could be replaced by '1980's sci-fi is rubbish, especially if made by the BBC', which in itself doesn't need to be said. If you did make it this far, well....
I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.
posted by Li at 12:12 PM
6 Comments:
We can no longer be friends. Seriously I'm terminating our friendship. I hope you live a better life than the one that eld you to blogging on the worst episode of a sci fi show ever.
Correction.
Worst episode I've managed to sit through.
Hey, at least I can admit when shows I like are crap!
Are you sure you're a fan??! lol.
Yeh admittedly i made it as far as polysterene rocks and then skipped to the end. Mainly because i never liked Doctor Who until recently and also because reading you write about it made me feel like i was reading a media essay lol.
You should sooo be a tv critic is my conclusion :P
And also give the bbc a break - i may work there someday and i feel as though i should defend it!
And maybe the polysterene is for health and safety reasons :P
The real question is what happens next? Now the doctor pulls the cable out I'm guessing the whole universe gets destroyed.
Does it?
No. No it doesn't. As I said, because apparently the writers forgot that would happen. In fact, he saved the universe. Well, what was left of it.
And hey, I'm the one who wants to work for the BBC, and I'm the one who would LOVE to work on Doctor Who.
But, 1980's BBC is just very very hard to defend.
Plus, what media essays have you been reading Nat? :p
(This is what happens to me when I'm unemployed....for three days).
I did not make it that far....
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