(sounds of laughter shades of earth are ringing through my open mind inciting & inviting me)

[riverdresses]

I think this is the damn hardest I've worked on my recaps in . . . well, maybe it's the first time! I recapped The Ice Warriors Wednesday, started The Enemy of the World yesterday morning & spent the evening recapping it & The Web of Fear. I am about to fall the hell over from exhaustion (I also went to the laundry today & learnt that my basket is much heavier to carry than I thought it was!) & I think I even fell asleep during part of The Web of Fear. ::bashes head on things::

The Ice Warriors: stories one through three

- Hmm. The opening of the beginning story reminds me a bit of The Great Space Elevator, with it beginning in a control room & an emergency in progress.

- O DUDE, THAT VOICE IS SERIOUSLY FREAKY. ::shudders::

- Let's see, excavating something you have no idea about from its coffin of ice . . . I don't see that ending well, do you?

- So far, each audio or story I've recapped lately, has a mention of the previous story. Since this comes after The Abominable Snowmen, I'm surmising that Jamie & Victoria are still dressed in their outfits from that story, which is why they seem a bit more acclimated to the cold.

- Aww. Victoria thinks the mansion inside the dome is just like her home. ♥

- O dear - that was a bit of a close test for Two I must say!

- Also, he seems rather doubtful of the computers being able to come up with a satisfactory solution.

- 'Uh, Victoria.'

'What?'

'Did you see how those lassies were dressed?'

'Yes I did. And trust you to think of something like that.'

'Well, I couldn't help thinking about it.'

'Well, I think it's disgusting. Wearing that kind of . . . thing.'

'Oh, so it is, so it is. You - you don't see yourself dressed like that then?'

'Jamie!'

'Oh, I'm sorry - it was just an idea.'

'We will now change the subject, Jamie.'

::dies:: Jamie, you are such a boy!

- O dear . . . that thing in the ice is now rather alive . . . & in the same room as Jamie & Victoria!

- LOLZ TWO CAN DO WHAT IT TOOK A WHOLE ACADEMY OF SCIENTISTS YEARS TO DO IN A FEW SECONDS.

- IT TOOK VICTORIA?!

- Meep - she's been kidnapped by a Martian? This seems very King Kong-esque . . . but at least whatever this thing is, it's not hurting her . . . yet.

- This creature is actually quite intelligent, I must say. It's a bit frightening.

- & seriously, that computer has a very chilling voice.

- For some reason, I like the idea of living in a botanical museum. It seems rather romantic in a way.

- Miss Garrett seems . . . well, not the most competent of people at her job, I think. Or maybe I'm just imagining that.

- 'Your regulations do not apply to me. I work in my own way - freely.'

TWO♥♥♥♥

- I hate Clent. He's arrogant & hides behind rules, regulations & is too full of himself to admit failure. & I want to whack Miss Garrett in the head on a few occasions as well.

- Two resents his work being checked by that silly computer! ::laughs:: Well, in fairness, if I were as bright as Two, I might also resent that.

- WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP SHOOTING AT JAMIE?!

- O, he's alive! ::breathes::

- 'I'm not sure if I trust your judgement yet, Doctor.'

'What, because I'm only human? Well as a matter of fact -'

::smiles to herself::

- O, poor Jamie. He doesn't sound at all well. ::cuddles him:: & yet, he's still terribly worried for his miss Victoria!

- When Victoria tells Two about Jamie & Arden, Two quite honestly sounds like someone just sucker punched him in the face. I mean, you can hear his panic & worry for Jamie in just a few words. ::wrings hands::

Stories four through six

- O, Victoria, get out of the way! ::screams::

- FUCK YOU CLENT, THE WARRIORS ARE MORE IMPORTANT! ::slaps him::

- ::gigglesnorts:: Two used some mad fancy science box to get himself a glass of water! ::laughs:: O, Two. ::pets::

- Two, you are a crazy, insane bastard. & I salute all of your crazy bravery just the same. Just . . . be careful up there.

- Victoria's bravery, even when she's so scared, is staggering. I would have been a cowering wreck.

- NO, NO EXPLODING!TWO PLZ.

- Two's quite a level-headed creature with these creatures, isn't he? I'm impressed! (I, not being calm myself at times, admire it in others.)

- Jamie quoted Shakespeare! He's becoming quite the scholar & I'm not being sarcastic in saying that.

- . . . you're just going to leave Two & Victoria for dead?! YOU. BASTARD.

- YOU SON OF A BITCH YOU JUST SHOT AN UNARMED MAN & A WOUNDED BOY! YOU . . . I CAN'T . . . YOU BASTARDS! ::is currently incoherent with range:: YOU SHOT TWO UNARMED MEN, ONE OF WHOM COULDN'T EVEN WALK. YOU LOW, DECEITFUL, COWARDLY DISHONOURABLE BASTARDS!

& Miss Garrett doesn't get off easily either - you bitch, ordering guards on the both of them - what threat can Jamie even pose to you? He can't work your silly machines, & he can't even walk! BITCH! ::shoves her off a cliff along with Clent::

I rather hope the BOTH of them get eaten by bears.

- I kind of love Two & Victoria's diversion tactic. ::grins::

- GO VICTORIA! ::waves pompoms::

- Is it bad that I want the Ice Warriors to blow Clent to little bits? Along with Miss Garrett?

- Miss Garrett is proving herself as bad as Clent when it comes to listening to that bloody, useless, stupid machine! & THAT BITCH IS JUST AS RUTHLESS AS HE IS! KILL HER, KILL HER!

- O, Two's idea seems to have worked, with minimal damage to the people, it seems.

- I WILL KILL MISS GARRETT, I SWEAR. How thick & useless can she be?!

- Miss Garrett & Clent - the most useless people in command I have ever seen. I have no words for their idiocy. It renders me speechless.

- & with the Ice Warriors incapacitated, Two, Jamie & Victoria make a quiet escape - hopefully to somewhere far less cold & hostile in the future. Or . . . well, you never know with the Doctor, do you?

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I found this quite a fun serial, I have to say! Though I think I would have enjoyed it more if I'd been able to watch it, as I really felt like it was a serial made to be watched, rather than just talked about or listened to, though you can do both just fine. I was a little dismayed by Clent & Miss Garrett NOT being eaten by bears/killed by the Ice Warriors/shanked in the ribs by one pissed off Highlander/blown to pieces, however, but ah, that's life. They'll get theirs one day. ::nods::

I must admit, I worried terribly for Victoria in this serial - she was in such a frightening position, but she still found the strength to keep going & to help Two, despite her absolute terror. I'm proud of her for that. ♥

Now, we're getting to what is one of my absolute favourite serials of the Two era - The Enemy of the World. Sadly, only one episode of it survived, which I get to include in my recap along with the audio! I'm quite happy to be recapping this one; I've waited ages to get to it!

(& it'll help ease the pain when I get to Fury From the Deep. I hope.)

The Enemy of the World - stories one through two

- O, lovely! A beach for a change! A sunny one, even! & Two wants buckets & spades & he's even playing in the ocean!

- 'Some crazy nut dancing a jig!'

How apt for Two. ::giggles::

- WHAT TWO WAS DANCING ABOUT IN HIS UNDERTHINGS IN THIS SERIAL AS WELL AS IMPERSONATING A MEGALOMANIAC? & THEY BURNINATED IT?! ::SCREAMS::

But Two dancing in his underwear in the sea! A lovely image, really. Someone should paint it.

- He had his clothes off - HOW COULD THEY BURN IT? ::cries::

- What's with the shooting?! Do people not like underdressed space beatniks dancing in the ocean?

- 'They're human beings if that's what you mean; indulging their favourite pastime - trying to destroy each other.'

- JAMIE! ::swoons:: How brave you are to take on a man with a gun in your face! ::happy sighs::

- & here's the best introduction to a supporting character, like, possibly ever - Astrid Ferrier, riding in on her helicopter to pick up Two, Jamie & Victoria! ASTRID, YOU'RE ALREADY AWESOME. & apparently, she's a damn good pilot! ::thumbs up::

- I love Two's concern for Astrid's arm & his firm insistence on her letting him take care of it.

- 'What law? Who's philosophy?'

::giggles:: Aww, Two. & Astrid trying to guess what kind of doctor he is!

- Um, sudden moment of Patrick Troughton & his lovely voice!porn talents. ::fans self:: (who knew the words 'anything, anything at all' could be so sexy?)

- Hmm. I find it interesting that Two's ready to walk out on Astrid, but Jamie's the only one wanting to listen & see what they could do to help.

- WHOA! IT'S AN ASTRID ATTACK! What a capable miss!

- O, SHIT. Dying in an helicopter explosion is . . . that's seriously grim.

- '. . . on ice, shall we say.'

The Ice Warriors reference!

- O my . . . the first appearance of Salamander - or his voice, at least. What a pretty, pretty voice. (you might want to get used to reading that.)

- 'I quite agree, Victoria! He seems to be a public benefactor! Quite a speaker too, and remarkably handsome, didn't you think so, Jamie?'

. . . . okay, COME ON, DO I HAVE TO SAY IT? (& Two's very right. Remarkably handsome.)

- I do so admire Two's ability to remain impartial & able to look at both sides of a conflict.

- ASDFVGBHJMK,L;LKJHGFDCSA FUCK FUCK GOOD GOD TWO PRACTISING SALAMANDER'S ACCENT OMG. ::collapses:: MORE, MORE, DARLING! ::waves hands::

(okay, I listened to it last night, but NO, THAT IS NOT GETTING OLD ANYTIME SOON. STILL HOT AS ANYTHING, CHRIST ALMIGHTY.)

- Goodness gracious . . . Two panicked quite a bit there! ::pets him & gives him tea:: I mean, that was a lot of panic he was having!

- 'What's the matter, can't you speak?'

'Don't shout at me!'

::glares:: I don't care much for who you are, you DON'T shout at miss Victoria Waterfield!

- You know, in some of Two's early serials, he did have a fondness for dressing up. Him impersonating Salamander = a much higher-stakes extension of that?

- 'McCrimmon you said?'

'Aye.'

'Well you just watch your step, that's all!'

'I've never said a word!'

'It must be the way you look, Jamie.'

- It's . . . strange. There's something different about Two & Victoria in this story - Two & Victoria, who in the past, were always the ones to want to help anyone in need, suddenly seem rather reticent to do so this time, while Jamie's the one trying to convince them to get involved. & Jamie knows that Two wouldn't walk away from a request like that & says so, despite Victoria's continuing nervousness & reluctance. Now Two, I don't know about, but . . . since I know things . . . I think Victoria's starting to show early signs that she's becoming tired of saving the world all the time & that she's reaching the end of her tether.

- & now, Salamander finally makes his first appearance! (yes, that was worthy of a note itself.)

- 'Disused yeti?'

'No, no, disused jetty'.

::laughs::

- Oooo . . . that bit with the wine is some creepy foreshadowing right there.

- JAMIE! Jamie, you crazy thing - o, wait, Astrid would have come up with this - but still, Jamie, that is quite a flashy way of getting into Salamander's service!

- When Jamie says Victoria's very pretty, I can imagine him smiling a bit when he does. & he calls her his girlfriend. First he says she's his friend, then he calls her his girlfriend. Hmm - pretty, then girlfriend - methinks Jamie's being a bit more honest about his feelings toward miss Victoria when undercover. I wonder what Victoria thought of being called that.

(or maybe he meant 'girl friend' & not 'girlfriend'. But knowing how Jamie feels about her, I'd lean toward 'girlfriend'. Victoria, however, might just be thinking of it as part of their cover - a couple on holiday & not anything else.)

- IT'S A KILT, NOT A SKIRT, THANKYOU.

- I have to say, as maddeningly, infuriatingly attractive as Salamander is, he still gives me chills. He's just that evil. & he's so casual & calm about it. He's utterly mad, heartless, power-hungry & a master of manipulating others . . . but goddammit, I still have a huge thing for him!

(if I don't go for the cute or somewhat mad ones, I fall for the evil ones. Hey, all of those have their charm!)

The Enemy of the World - episode three

- Moving into the only surviving serial for this bit of the first half . . . JAMIE IN THE BLACK RUBBER UNIFORM. That's always a pleasant way of opening a story I think. Don't you?

- Fuckery, can't take eyes off of Salamander now that I'm actually at episode three - how I'm even typing us a bit is a mystery.

- WHO CARES WHY HE'S DRESSED LIKE THAT, HE IS, & IT'S DELICIOUS.

- I liked Denes' sense of humour very much. He actually made me smile & forget . . . um, other things.

- Victoria in the kitchen! In Jamie's clothes, I SWEAR. There's something you don't expect of a lady of wealth & taste. ::laughs::

(& she really does look like she's wearing Jamie's clothes in this episode. I'd SWEAR she's wearing his kilt.)

- Hello Jamie & your rubber outfit, you're a pleasant sight to see. I hope Victoria appreciates it!

- ARGH DON'T START TAKING YOUR CLOTHES OFF WITHOUT A WARNING, JAMIE!

- Wait . . . there's an episode I'm supposed to be recapping here . . . um . . . o look, Two! ::hugs him::

(& Pat's hair in that scene is making me giggle.)

- Okay, the first time I saw the remnants of this serial, I was convinced that Peter Halliday was playing Benik. He isn't, but I totally thought he was then. Don't ask!

- O NO NOT THE CROCKERY SCENE! Gah, I HATE watching them smash up all of Kent's nice dishes & things - it makes me oddly uncomfortable & I just . . . ugh, I CANNOT stand watching that scene. It's weirdly upsetting to me.

- 'Sad, really, isn't it? People spend all that time making nice things, then other people come along and break them.'

I remember one of you peaches said in a comment how some folks have said that this particular line is, very sadly, quite true about the Troughton era as a whole - so many amazing episodes were made & so many great stories told, then the BBC came along & burninated them. I've never been able to hear that line quite the same ever since.

- O, hello Astrid, working a v. sexy & kickass, almost Avengers-esque look. ::waves::

- I love how Astrid just smiles when she's getting hit on, but she looks like she's thinking, 'Keep this up and I'll rip your head off and stuff it down near your intestines.' Astrid is megawatts of awesome, SRSLY.

- Have I ever mentioned that part of the reason I fucking adore this serial is the fantastic ability that Patrick Troughton has of playing two completely different leading characters in one story? & that's the short version! But just . . . ZOMG, he pulls off both roles deliciously & he makes it look so effortless - it's a gorgeous thing to watch. I can't even imagine how much work that must have been.

- O, one of my favourite Salamander moments has just arrived - the poisoned wine scene. I'm not sure why I love it so much, but I do. I think it's once again, that total frost-like, casually evil way Salamander has about killing someone - or it could be the accent, the wine, that bit about the moon not falling out of the sky & his switch from anger to being all 'O, IT'S TOTALLY OKAY THAT YOU COULDN'T KILL SOMEONE, HERE, HAVE A DRINK AND ALL WILL BE WELL!'

& that said . . . who the hell would take a drink from Salamander right after fucking up a job he gave you to do? Hell, if you ARE going to accept a drink from him, DON'T TURN YOUR DAMN BACK ON HIM, HE'S GOING TO POISON YOU. ::sighs:: Really, you'd think that would cross one's mind.

- 'One chance, my friend. I said one chance.'

The way Pat says that line, accent & all . . . o, it's delicious. ::faints:: (& that's another bit of this serial that I like.)

- OMFG JAMIE'S PACKING A REVOLVER. & right after the last scene?! Christ, this serial needs a warning label!

- ASTRID FERRIER = MORE AWESOME THAN YOU. (unless you're Jamie. Then it's JAMIE McCRIMMON = MORE AWESOME THAN YOU. Astrid can be second, because I seriously love her.)

- Okay, I had to pause for a moment to snap all of the above out & I landed on the cutest little pout Jamie's doing - actually, it's almost exactly like one nentari has of Frazer when he was in Emmerdale Farm - she calls it his 'channelling Pat' moment & if you see it? YOU KNOW HE TOTALLY IS.

Okay, going to unpause now, need to stop staring at the pouty Scottish boy in rubber with his jacket half-unzipped . . . really, hitting play again . . .

- Random fashion note: Patrick Troughton could pull a frilled shirt off rather well! I thought it was only Jon Pertwee who could do that. Also, I do love that side part. Side parts look good on everyone - even me, which is surprising. So they look good on everyone.

The Enemy of the World - stories four through six

- Back to audio now & WHOA, WHOA, Ferria & Astrid just about had a fistfight in Kent's office! Hot! But it looks like Astrid may have gained a new ally against Salamander.

- Poor Ferria. ::hugs her:: But damn, that girl comes prepared!

- . . . if Two says one more thing about 'evidence', as right as he is, I may slap him.

Um, actually, never mind. Forget I just said that. Two's kind of in the right here.

- JESUS CHRIST, ASTRID FERRIER IS ONE FIERCE CHICK! She's down for a fight when she needs to put one up & she's FAST when it comes to escape!

- FERRIA! They shot her! But she's holding out til the end - but . . . o, Ferria.

- Okay, Salamander & that bit with the stretcher absolutely creeped me the fuck out. Not even joking. Fucking creeped the hell out of me. I almost don't want to know what's under the base, or where he's gone.

- O my god. O MY GOD. I . . . he's - he's hiding people under the base? He's . . . he's beyond absolute madness. He's damn near close to the stuff of nightmares. & he's not even the Master.

- HE'S A LIAR! HE'S A LYING, COWARDLY MANIACAL PSYCHOPATH WHO'S PRACTICALLY KEEPING PEOPLE BURIED ALIVE UNDER HIS RESEARCH BASE! What - WHY, though?!

My brain hurts . . . wait. What.

WHAT.

WHAT THE FUCK.

He makes those poor people underground create natural disasters under the pretence of fighting a nonexistent enemy?

Okay, Salamander lost his mind a LONG time ago, didn't he?

- . . . Astrid's doing Two's makeup. TWO'S MAKEUP! Okay, one bright spot in this serial. I actually laughed a bit.

- ASTRID FERRIER, I FUCKING LOVE YOU. Marry me?

- JAMIE! VICTORIA! Okay, who's backside to I have to kick for drugging them? SPEAK UP!

- O, Two . . . you're mad. Wonderfully crazy, but I know you to be a good judge of character. Just . . . just watch your back, bb.

- As a side note, Salamander just officially made the third spot on my list of favourite Classic!Who villains. He's under the Cybermen as the top three best!

- He's a fucking madman. A sexy, fucking madman. & now even those poor people underground are about to learn that. (well, not the sexy part. Just the madman part.)

- Okay, Salamander? Is officially scaring the hell out of me. I need cuddles.

- O, Jamie, you're awake! & Victoria as well. ::clings::

- Benik, you put one hand on Victoria & Jamie will break. your. neck.

- See? He'll kill you, sadist.

- GET AWAY FROM VICTORIA YOU MADMAN! OR I'LL BREAK YOUR NECK!

- O, o, Two - Two, that wasn't the best time to break up right there! BUT IT'S OKAY, IT'S OKAY, THEY KNOW IT'S YOU! ::breathes & clings to Two::

- Another awesome thing about Astrid? She has common sense, in addition to bravery!

- Astrid's plan gets a full ten stars from me! ::beams:: Rock on, miss Astrid!

- & she's caring. Warm, feisty, kickass & caring. Astrid Ferrier would have made a fucking FABULOUS companion alongside Jamie & Two. She's really very Avengers-esque. Kind of like Emma Peel, dare I say? (I've never seen any of The Avengers, so I wouldn't know for sure.)

- Is it weird that I find Two impersonating Salamander dead sexy? 'cause I really, really do.

- o.fuck.me.with.a.spoon. This serial is just getting more & more frightening with every story. Not even kidding. Like 'shivers all up & down my spine from absolute TERROR' scary.

- It appears that our lady Astrid is organising herself a rebellion! ::waves pompoms::

- . . . even after all of this, Salamander's accent still sends shivers of the rather pleasant sort down my spine. Yes, I just called him a coward, a liar & a madman, but you CANNOT deny the attractive factors here. Well, I can't, anyway. You know me! ::grins::

- O MY WORD! Kent & Salamander were in this fucked up plan together?! I - I can't EVEN. EVEN. WORDS. I HAVE NONE, PEOPLE. NONE.

But that was possibly one of the best revealing of evil that I've seen since The Time Meddler. Seriously!

- JESUS CHRIST THAT ACCENT SHOULD NOT BE USED IN LOW, WHISPERY TONES. I HAVE JUST DIED FROM AURAL OVERLOAD.

- I think I'm falling in love with Astrid. ::heart eyes::

- O NO. NO. Jamie, Victoria, that isn't Two! It's Salamander! GET THE FUCK OUT OF THERE, NOW!

- UMF UMF UMF TWO & SALAMANDER IN THE SAME FUCKING ROOM TOGETHER O GOD I HAVE JUST - THEY'RE FIGHTING, OMG I'M DYING. HARD.

- & IT ENDS JUST THERE?! ::SCREAMS VERY LOUDLY::

(I can fix that, however. ::beams::)

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O, fuckery, people.

That serial . . . it melted my brain out of my ears & all down my shoulders from the intensity, the sexuality (shut your faces, it was SO there!), the sheer horror of what Salamander created & just . . . seriously. I fucking loved every.single.second. of it. I don't even think I've loved something so much since I heard the Eighth Doctor audio Zagreus. This was THAT good & it was just as intense, but not funny or cracky at all & it was possibly even scarier. (& Zagreus scared me a LOT!) I . . . omg. just ::flails hands everywhere:: I need to breathe now; I think I stopped breathing for about half this serial. This was incredibly, terrifyingly dark & it never once apologised for such darkness. Everyone had a side to them you weren't expecting, everyone had a deceit in the end. It was so topsy-turvy a serial it made my head spin at times. But it wasn't once silly or cute - it was just frightening.

(& I would call it stamped & sealed official that Salamander is now in my top favourite Classic!Who villains, like I said earlier. Number three, right under the Cybermen.)

& I'm still in fucking AWE of Patrick Troughton's work in this story - just fucking floored, man. He played two roles, one being disturbingly dark, & the other one being the hero of the story. He managed to play two leading characters in one story & I never lost interest once or thought he was losing it in places. He kept quite the pace up & it's just mind-boggling. Especially the ending, where Two & Salamander finally meet each other. I would KILL to see that footage & to see how Patrick pulled THAT off.

& just when I thought I couldn't heart him any more, I am SOUNDLY proven wrong. His range & his ability . . . it was amazing. Dizzying, even. I can't even imagine how much work it must have been to play two leading characters that were so different from each other - & that's putting it mildly!

Okay, I'll stop gushing & freaking out over this serial now; I've got another one to recap, but all I have to say are two things:

i. BITCHES DISRESPECTED THE HOUSE OF TROUGHTON BY BURNING THIS SERIAL. BADLY. & I DO NOT STAND FOR THAT.

ii. EVERYONE who hasn't seen this serial? GO FUCKING FIND A RECON OF IT OR FIND THE AUDIO - IT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND. TRUST ME.

& now, attempting to come down from the MASSIVE happy freakout behind the last cut, we come to our final serial of the week, The Web of Fear.

The Web of Fear - episode one

- NOW! When we ended The Enemy of the World, Salamander, while in a fight with Two, accidentally activated the dematerialisation lever. Long story short, TARDIS dematerialised with open doors, Salamander got sucked out (o, NOT a pretty way to die, I have you know) & Two, Jamie & Victoria are rolling around on the floor of the TARDIS.

- JAMIE'S WORKING THE CONSOLE! GO, BB, GO!

- Ah, all's safe again. But that was a pretty wild ride for the three of them!

- I do believe Edward Travers has made his second appearance in Doctor Who, along with his yeti, in a story set thirty - or possibly forty years after The Abominable Snowmen, apparently. (wow! Thirty years?)

- & with the yeti, the golden spheres have returned as well. I think this could be a good serial, folks!

- SHIT THE YETI'S ALIVE AGAIN! Kind of like something out of a Universal horror film.

- Hee, Two & Jamie are having a marital spat round of bickerbickerbicker, with sandwiches added in!

- Ooo, miss Victoria's playing with fashions in the wardrobe! Cute look miss Waterfield!

- Ugh, why are cobwebs forming around the TARDIS?!

- & Jamie & Victoria are working the TARDIS controls! ::squees::

- O, the scanner's clearing now!

- LOLZ TWO SAYS HOLD TIGHT & JAMIE IMMEDIATELY GRABS ONTO HIS SHOULDER.

- Wow, Victoria's dress is a fair bit shorter than I thought initially!

- ::quietly admires Jamie's sporran::

- WHAT THE HELL IS A YETI DOING IN THE UNDERGROUND?

- Two looks mighty pretty all scrunched up under the train platform.

- JESUS THEY NEARLY BLEW TWO UP!

The Web of Fear - stories two through four

- O, Jamie. ::holds him:: It wasn't your fault, please don't think that! Two's okay, truly!

- HEE! I love how Victoria recognises Travers right away, but Jamie doesn't!

- So they met Travers in 1935 Tibet . . . wow. I'd do the math, but I'm far too tired to think about maths now.

- O, Victoria! Even after what she went through before with the yeti, she's braving an encounter with them again to find her friends!

- & Jamie's not abandoning Two. Not ever. &Jamie;

- O, she found Two! ::breathes::

- ASDFGHJKL;'LKJHGFVDCSXZA HOLY CHRIST IT'S THE BRIGADIER! Or rather, Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart this time around! HELLO BRIG!

The Web of Fear - stories five through six

- Wait - how did the Intelligence take over Travers?!

- . . . . it wants Two's brain. IT WANTS HIS BRAINS! That is considerably frightening.

- The way Two says that Jamie & Victoria would have to look after him, if he let the Intelligence have his brain, is so heartbreaking for some reason. I mean, it's just so sad to hear him say.

- O! Victoria left a clue as to where she is - by way of her handkerchief! Just like how Jamie found her in The Evil of the Daleks.

- May I just take this morning to say that I really don't much like Evans? Well, I don't. There, said it.

- O SHIT. THE FUNGUS IS IN THE BASE NOW!

- Dislike of Evans is growing bigger & almost as fast as the fungus can spread . . . .

- For some reason, the fact that Two has a yeti of his own, more or less, is just giving me a great deal of lulz. ::giggles::

- Aww, Two's brought his lovely recorder out for a bit. I think I'm getting a fair bit attached to him playing it. ::smiles::

- LOLZ JAMIE'S CONTROLLING A YETI! Or rather, he thought he was. ::gigglesnort::

- I can't listen to this; it's too tense for me.

- O, JAMIE WAS CONTROLLING THE YETI! ::starts breathing very hard:: & he blew up the pyramid at the same opportunity!

- NO. Two, you didn't fail. You saved Jamie & Victoria & all of the others. & you stopped the yeti. No failure there, I promise.

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You know, I think that did turn out to be quite a nice serial. Granted it's possible I may have fallen asleep through part of it, but no matter - I did enjoy it. But it was with a heavy heart that I enjoyed it - after this, Victoria will be leaving soon. I'm not looking forward to that at all, so this audio, knowing it was one of her last two adventures with Two & Jamie, was a bit saddening a fact to keep in mind.

But this serial did bring us something lovely: the first appearance of the future Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart! & even in his first serial, he was still made of total awesome. I can't wait til I get to The Invasion. ::grins::

(& I still think the only way I managed to keep going & not just call it a night were the words 'promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep.')

& that's this week's round-up for the great & mighty Troughton rewatch-athon! Next week I'll be recapping Fury From the Deep (Victoria's final serial. ::sob::) The Wheel in Space (Zoe's first!) & Zoe's own Companion Chronicle Fear of the Daleks.

Previous recaps
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
The Time Meddler
The War Machines
The Smugglers
The Tenth Planet
The Power of the Daleks
The Highlanders
The Underwater Menace
The Moonbase
The Macra Terror
The Faceless Ones
The Evil of the Daleks
The Evil of the Daleks - audio version
Tomb of the Cybermen
The Great Space Elevator (Victoria's Companion Chronicle)
The Abominable Snowmen - audio & serial