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My iTunes ate itself again. ::sobs:: & I FINALLY HAD SOME SEMBLANCE OF ORDER FOR MY TWO/JAMIE MIX! Now I have to REMAKE all my playlists AGAIN. UGH. I fucking HATE doing that; it's SO tedious.
Okay, so last week's recaps were rather depressing, weren't they? Endings, beginnings, endings again . . . yeah, pretty sad. But this week, I get to do a surprisingly lighter series of recaps, because we're doing two of my favourites & all of this week's serials have a bit of nostalgia attached to them, especially the second.
Plus . . . crack! Crack is always good. ::beams::
Anyway, this week, I'll be recapping The Dominators, The Mind Robber & The Invasion! & from here until The Space Pirates I believe, I'll be able to watch serials now, instead of just listening to them, or listening, then switching over to a surviving serial.
Let's get started, shall we? ::cheery grins:: First up, we have The Dominators, which, when![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nentari gave me the first batch of Two serials I didn't have, was the very first one I tore into, which shall be explained later on.
The Dominators
- I always thought that the Dominators in their uniforms, looked like giant turtles. I mean, they do! They look like their heads could pop down into their uniforms at any moment!
- Random fashion note: . . . why are the Dulcians wearing curtains? No, really - they're wearing huge bits of upholstery! Well, the men are, anyway - the girls get to wear fluttery, rather sheer curtains. But they look very Greek in their fashions, I must say.
- CRASH! EVERYBODY'S MAROONED!
- O, hello TARDIS! ::waves:: & Two, Jamie & Zoe!
- LOLZ, JAMIE BLOWING UP A BEACH BALL! & Zoe looking all sceptical at the idea of a holiday! AWW. & Two in his cute beach chair!
- JAMIE! PUT THE GUN DOWN! ::flaps hands at Jamie::
- EEEK, SKELETONS! O, never mind - just dummies - um . . . hopefully.
- O dear. Company seems to have arrived!
- O I see - a bit of help, not anyone out to kill the three of them! (not yet, anyway)
- Random fashion note two: I ♥ Two's floppy hair! It's so cute on him & of course, just in general!
- ::giggles:: From the back, the Dominators really look like turtles! Turtles covered in seaweed, that is.
- I remember when I first saw only pictures of the Dominators, I thought they were the Ice Warriors - they looked so much like they were from somewhere very cold, what with their funny suits & such.
- 'Oh no, you're not thinking what I think you're thinking, are you?'
'That, I think, Jamie depends on what you think I am thinking.'
THEY ARE SO ADORABLY SYNCHRONISED. ::tee-hees to herself::
- Jamie: ::grabbing repeatedly on the back of Two's coat while Two looks inside the spacecraft::
Two: 'Jamie don't do it!'
::gigglesnorts::
& just in the first episode, Jamie & Two hung onto each other quite a bit. (yeah, I notice this. WHAT?)
- O dear . . . Two & Jamie have been caught by the Quarks!
- & I applaud Jamie's toughness & standing up to mean aliens! ::claps::
- Jamie gets stuck to a wall! & IMMEDIATELY SCREAMS FOR TWO TO HELP HIM. (well, okay, maybe not screams, but that's the first thing he says!)
'Doctor, I can't move, help me!'
- Poor Jamie. He's getting . . . well, probed by aliens.That aren't Two.
- . . . Two & Jamie are awfully cute when they're both in a total panic.
- 'Oh, if I could only get away from this wall . . .'
'Shush, Jamie, I am trying to listen.'
'Everybody wants me to shut up. Alright, I will!'
AWWWW.
- I love how totally calm miss Zoe is, even on another planet, sitting in technology centuries ahead of her. She's so adorable!
- ::sighs:: Dulcians . . . they're . . . the way their minds work rather bother me. Talk about thinking inside your box!
- O, Jamie's ready with the smelling salts for Two after that horrid test! & he holds onto him all sweet & gently . . . aww. ::wibble::
'Here . . . come away from that fearful contraption . . . '
O, JAMIE. ::cuddles him::
I think I'd like to make Jamie lots of do you good soup. He could always use it, since he's such a darling.
- Au unintelligent enemy is far less dangerous than an intelligent one, Jamie.'
'Eh?'
'Just act stupid. Do you think you can manage that?'
'Oh, aye, it's easy - (Jamie makes a face)'
HEE! He knows when Two's teasing him.
- ::taps Jamie's knees:: Jamie, it's rather customary to keep one's knees together when in a kilt!But I won't argue if you'd rather not.
- THEY HELD HANDS TO MAKE A TWO-FOOT JUMP! ♥
- JAMIE DON'T POINT THAT THING AT TWO! ::panics::
- AWW, ZOE'S GETTING NEW CLOTHES. ::giggles::
- 'Well they're not very efficient garments, are they?'
'Well, at least you look more like a girl now.'
'Well I'm not sure - they feel impractical!'
HEE! I love the way that she says how her clothes feel impractical. & she looks rather cute in them, I have to say, even if Zoe doesn't much care for them. It's so funny to hear Zoe fussing over her clothes!
- Dulcians have two hearts as well? O my!
- O MY! Zoe, your dress's fastenings have come loose! & you haven't even done anything yet!
- ROCKS ARE FALLING, BUT NOBODY'S DYING YET.
- Now her fastenings are closed again . . . this isn't random fashion notation, this is FACT & it BUGS THE HELL OUT OF ME!
- I adore how much concern Jamie has for Zoe already. It's so sweet.
- & Zoe's brain is already in action! ::beams & hugs her lots::
- Random fashion note three: NONE OF THE OTHER DULCIAN LADIES HAVE FASTENINGS ON THE BACK OF THEIR DRESSES! WHERE'S MY EXPLANATIONS?
- Dulcians are bloody frustrating, honestly! I would have just flipped out by then on the whole lot of them by then.
- Aww, Two's eating jellybabies!
- Zoe, much like Polly, long ago, is inciting a rebellion of her own! Zoe's got a brain & a sparky little nature already!
- Two's taking the capsule apart . . . while it's flying! ::blinks:: Two, you're quite a madman you know!
- Zoe's fastenings are still wide open & it's still bugging me . . .
- I'M DYING AT THE SIGHT OF TWO WITH HIS FEET IN THE AIR, TRYING TO PLAY WITH THE CAPSULE'S WIRING. OMG. Absoloutely hysterical!
- & JAMIE'S PULLING HIM UP BY THE BACK OF HIS TROUSERS! ::dies giggling:: Or it might be his braces, I don't know, but WHATEVER, IS FUNNY.
- Then they do a wild flop & Jamie's pulling Two up by his FACE. I HAVE NO WORDS.
- ::DIES:: & the way they end up landing - their positions! O, goodness me, those two . . .
- O, Two has a telescope in his pocket! & Jamie just takes it without asking, leaving Two to have a rather annoyed look on his face. ::grins:: But it's a good thing Two had that - they found Zoe!
- ::giggle:: Lurking!Two! ::pets his fluffy head::
- Hmm - Zoe's fastenings have seemed to have been closed now . . .
- Hee! Jamie's got a gun! & he blew up a Quark! ::waves tartan pompoms::
- ::breathes:: O, Jamie & Cully are alright! For now . . . & I do hope the ventilator shaft isn't blocked!
- 'There wasn't a laser gun where I come from, yet us McCrimmons dealt with the Redcoats right enough!'
&JAMIE;
I LOVE HIM. ::flails:: Even on alien worlds, Jamie McCrimmon will KICK YOUR ASS! With rocks, if he has to! HOW COULD YOU NOT LOVE HIM?
- LOLZ, ROCKS FALL, QUARKS DIE. FTW!
- HEE. Two teases even Zoe! ::giggles::
- Random fashion note four: there's just a few occasions where you can see . . . well . . . rather nicely up Jamie's kilt if you're looking . . . which I wasn't, I just happened to notice it!
- JAMIE McCRIMMON - KICKING ALIEN ROBOTIC ASS WITH BEDSHEETS! FOR. THE. WIN. ::kick-dances::
- Hmm - one of the Dominators looks like he's wearing a touch of eyeliner - but it's not pretty on a Dominator.
- HMPH! Both Two & Zoe shushing Jamie when he has an idea! & a BRILLIANT idea, as Two says! ::pokes Two for saying it's such a simple idea that even Jamie could think of it::
- TWO'S GOT THE SONIC SCREWDRIVER BACK IN ACTION, BITCHES! ::applauds::
- & Two can create bombs from the contents of a medical kit! Two >>>>>>> LIFE & THE UNIVERSE.
- WHOO-HOO! Jamie & Cully are blowing up Quarks left & right! Jamie & Ace might have got on well, I think. ::grins::
- LOLZ. I love how Zoe holds onto Two when she hears another explosion. & Two's face makes me giggle madly. Heee.
- Zoe's fastenings are open again, I see . . .
- WHOA, ZOE HAS SOME VERY GOOD ARMS! ::covets::
- & Two's found a very handy way to get rid of the seed device & here comes one of my favourite Two/Jamie grabbyhands bits of EVAR.
- O, lots of shaking . . . Zoe flies out of sight . . .Two clings onto Jamie! RIGHT UP AGAINST THE TARDIS! ::claps hands::
- & the volcano's become active! INTO THE TARDIS NOWPLZ.
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Hmm. It has been quite some time since I last saw The Dominators, but I do still enjoy it! I think it's a great first big adventure for Zoe & I loved how utterly awesome Jamie got to be in so much of it - blowing up Quarks, throwing rocks at them, coming up with really good ideas - O, JAMIE. ::heart eyes::
& of course, I DID love how many lovely Two/Jamie moments there were - I swear, they NEVER ONCE had their hands off each other. EVER. Like . . . nope, there very few scenes that didn't include those two holding onto each other in some way & it was quite lovely. (I capped a few!)
Now, why did I rip into The Dominators when I got it? Simple! It was the serial before The Mind Robber & I REALLY wanted to see what led up to my very first serial of Two's era! & as such, now we come to that serial, which I got madly nostalgic recapping, as you'll see. But to be fair, I really do love it.
The Mind Robber
- Okay, the first time I saw this scene, I was all smiles at how close Two & Jamie were. I was like, 'OMG. Everyone WAS right about you two!'
Also, Jamie's cute when he's scared
- Zoe likes volcanic eruptions! & so does Two! ::giggles:: & o dear, Two's having another spot of trouble with the fluid links . . . he should really get those replaced. I think.
- HEY, FOAM!
- 'Well fine, reality's getting too hot anyway!'
First time I heard that? I was all flaily hands & giggles. & I decided that I quite liked Jamie, though I already did from the get-go.
- & Jamie, who probably doesn't quite understand just WHAT that device will do, is going to hold onto Two & study it anyway. AWW. (how far are we into this? Seven minutes or less? & they HAVEN'T STOPPED TOUCHING EACH OTHER ONCE. I remember being all 'OMG. NOT ONLY WAS EVERYONE RIGHT ABOUT YOU TWO, BUT YOU'RE BOTH EXCEEDING MY EXPECTATIONS!')
- & Jamie throws his hand down over Two's, activates the emergency unit (which is one of my favourite grabby moments of this whole serial), then clings to Two for dear life, while Zoe's all calm & collected under stress.
I always loved that bit - her not flipping out, while Jamie does. I always kind of felt that it underscored the relationship between Two & Jamie at that particular moment.
- MOAR FOAM!
- 'Doctor - we're not actually in flight, are we?'
'No, why?'
'Well, then presumably we've landed. So why isn't the scanner showing anything?'
'Well . . . because . . . well, we're nowhere. It's as simple as that.'
That moment between Two & Zoe has always been & so far, remained one of my favourite bits of Two dialogue out of almost all of his serials. I may be a bit biased, yes, because this was my first Two serial, but I just thought it was brilliantly played. It's subtly creepy & disconcerting without being obvious & I just love it.
- HEE! Jamie telling Zoe she looks quite a mess - awww. ::pets them both::
- SPARKLY CATSUIT! ::SQUEALS:: REALLY SPARKLY CATSUIT, O MY. ::beams::
- I love Zoe's mix of logic & curiosity. Feeling & logic. ♥ I think it's best to have one as well as the other. Otherwise, there's no balance to things.
- OMG JAMIE'S LITTLE FACE! I think this was when I totally fell for him, that look on his face when he can see Scotland on the scanner - my heart practically exploded from all the sweetness & the TOTAL CUTENESS of the moment. O, JAMIE LOVELY. How could you not love a sweetheart like that?
& I should also add, that scene is ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS what comes to mind THE SECOND I listen to the Rufus Wainwright version of Across the Universe. I've come to think of that bit as Jamie's Across the Universe face. & it makes me think of the bit that goes:
Sounds of laughter shades of earth are ringing through my open mind inciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns and calls me on and on across the universe
Yes - it should be no secret that this is totally Jamie's song for me. ♥
- & Zoe's face when she thinks she can see her home - I melt a bit every time I see her look - so wide-eyed & homesick . . . it's just adorable.
(& also, I want Wendy Padbury's eye makeup from that scene. Which was my second reason for getting another pair of false eyelashes.)
- Random fashion note: this serial features one of my second favourite Jamie outfits - his black jumper & his kilt! Very snappy!
- I love how Jamie, as curious as he is himself, won't let Zoe go outside without Two with them. He keeps his almost-little sister in line, he does.
- BUT SHE DOES IT ANYWAY! Headstrong, our miss Zoe is, isn't she?
- & the way Jamie runs out of the TARDIS after Zoe & Two starts calling after him . . . yes, that was another moment where I said to myself the first time I saw it, 'You two are so in love. SO MASSIVELY IN LOVE.'
- I adore the part with Jamie & Zoe outside the TARDIS - it's quite sweet, I think. Creepy, of course, considering how they're . . . well, nowhere, & those robots (which I actually thought were Cybermen the first time I watched this!), but their interactions are very sweet. & yes, even the slap! ::giggles::
- Also, may I say that bagpipes make me cry a little? I just have sad memories associated with them from the very first time I heard them. But they're still quite nice!
- Eeek, the scary, tempting versions of Jamie & Zoe all in white are creeeeepy! But I LOVE Zoe's white sparkly catsuit!
- 'I don't know. But we've got to be careful. We've got to be very, very careful.'
That line has ALWAYS stuck with me for some reason. Why, I don't know. I think it's all in the way its said. But it's been stuck fast in my head ever since!
- Also, I like how Zoe owns up to her actions & admits that it was her fault that they were all put in danger. & how Two says it really isn't her fault.
- O, Jamie's having a dream. I DO wonder what it's about . . . ::giggle::
Though really, Two, don't tell someone to shut up after they have a horrid nightmare! ::poke::
- Hmm. I feel like now is a good time to mention that while this was my first serial of the Troughton era, I still couldn't help finding Patrick Troughton quite attractive in it. I'm not sure what did it at such an early point, but I was just watching & I remember thinking to myself, 'Hmm . . . Patrick Troughton's really kind of handsome!' But this was before I realised that I sort of had a fancy for Two as well . . . but that came a lot later, actually. I don't remember when, but it was a while after this serial. For me at this point, Two was always the Doctor I'd want to go swing-dancing with in 1930s New York & make teach me how to play the recorder. I don't remember when I started finding him sexy as well! ::laughs::
- THE TARDIS EXPLODED. WHAT?! But Zoe & Jamie are still hanging onto the console, luckily . . . & in Zoe's case, much to the delight of male (& the occasional female!) viewers everywhere! ZOE'S SPARKLY BUM FTW!Ah, I do love that moment.
- & part two picks up where we left off, with the TARDIS exploding into a - well, you could count the bits, but why do that - million pieces, with Zoe & Jamie clinging onto the console & Zoe's adorable backside glittering away at us o-so-temptingly . . . um, er, I mean . . . ::shakes head::
- Ooo, woods!
- & Jamie's just seen a Redcoat! But he's not one to go down without a fight!
- But . . . he got turned into a cardboard cutout . . . yes, WHAT?But he's a sexy cardboard cutout, you have to admit!
- O, hello Two, you're awake! ::snuggles:: & o, Jamie & Zoe are calling out to him, so they're alright.Jamie's voice seems to have dropped about three octaves at this point . . .
- Hmm. Is it sacrilige to say that I LOVE any scene where we just have Patrick Troughton acting in a super-fab way all by himself? He's really quite amazing to watch on his own, as well with others.
- OMFG TWO MEETS GULLIVER!! ::FLAILS LIKE A CRAZY GIRL::
Okay, okay, footnote! When I was a little girl, Gulliver's Travels was one of my favourite stories to read. I even had it on cassette & can still remember listening to that. So the first time I saw this serial, I flipped out when Two met Gulliver - it was like a childhood & fandom collision! & it's one of the reasons I fucking adore this serial. IT HAS GULLIVER!
& yes, I DO know what he's saying when he first sees Two - what does that make me? & in addition, I know where everything he says comes from in all of his stories. I told you it was my favourite book!
- Two's so cute in this scene, I must say. ::tickles him::
- 'Would you mind taking that popgun away, it does unsettle me so!'
O, TWO. ::kisses:: Another favourite bit of Two dialogue of mine!
- O, here are the children! ::giggles::
- 'Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me went down to the river to bathe. (all together now) Adam and Eve got drowned, who do you think was saved?'
'Well, Pinch-Me, obviously!'
(they all pinch him)
'No, stop it, don't do that!'
::DIES:: I LOVE that bit. & I fully intend to do that to the barbarian one day.
- Another reason I have to love this story - it's STUFFED with words & literature, as well as cracktastic fun. O, SIIIIIGH! ::happy bounce::
- & he solves the puzzle, only to lose Jamie's face! ::gigglesnorts::
- TWO, YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG! ::tries to look sad but fails::
- THAT AIN'T JAMIE! But it sure is cute, you've got to admit that!
(& a note . . . Two doesn't seem quite as . . . hands-on with his Not!Jamie!Jamie as he is with his proper Jamie. Or that could just be me.)
- 'What's the good of thinking? What we need is a battering ram! One of these trees!'
'When is a door not a door . . . '
'Och, this is no time for riddles!'
MASSIVE LOVE FOR THAT SCENE. It's so cute!
- ZOE IN A JAR?! ::giggle::
- Ooo, more sparkly bum! & even miss Zoe's confused by this Not!Jamie!Jamie.
- Okay, Not!Jamie!Jamie is about to climb a tree & see if there's a way out of the wood. I remember showing this bit to the barbarian at one point, & when it got to the actual tree climbing, she asked, 'Oh, he's [Two] looking up his kilt?'
WITH ALMOST NO PROMPTING FROM ME. I just asked her what she thought of the scene! EVEN THE BARBARIAN COULD SEE THE SLASHTASTICNESS OF TWO/JAMIE & I DIDN'T EVEN HAVE TO USE ANY WORDS.
But anyway, you know Two's totally looking up Not!Jamie!Jamie's kilt. Just to make sure it really IS Jamie, of course!
- During that scene, I thought I noticed a streak of grey on the back of Pat's head - but that just adds to his sexiness, loves. Just adds!
- HELLO GULLIVER! ::waves::
(also, Bernard Horsfall sharing a scene with Patrick Troughton is visually amusing - Pat's so small in comparison! ::giggle::)
- SURPRISE!ZOE! ::laughs:: Zoe's the ultimate surprise!companion - she's so small & adorable! I want to put her in my pocket.
- A space beatnik, a eighteenth-century Scottish piper & a human computer all walk into a darkened wood . . .
- HOLY SHIT SON, IT'S A UNICORN! ::RUNS:: Jamie's dreams are coming true!So there's hope for you yet, Jamie! ::giggle::
- Entering part three now & as we oft do, we're picking up where we left off in the last story, with Jamie's dream about the unicorn coming true & everybody that's not a Time Lord in a grand panic.
- BUT! They stopped it! They stopped it with reality! Um, more or less.
- The Master sounds v. Davros-esque, doesn't he? (okay, I didn't really make that observation on my own; David Maloney pointed it out in the commentary)
& for those of you that aren't sure, no, this is not THE Master - just someone with the same moniker.
- UNEXPECTED!REDCOAT! & Expected!Not!Jamie!Jamie!fierceness!
- LOLZ, Zoe giving Two the verbal slappage for getting Jamie's face wrong the first time!
- OMG JAMIE HAS HIS FACE BACK! ::jumps on him::
But you have to admit . . . both of them WERE cute. When I first watched this, I couldn't really tell the difference - or rather, I didn't see much of one. BUT THAT WAS WHEN I FIRST SAW THIS SERIAL & BARELY KNEW JAMIE, OKAY? DON'T HURT ME.
- Two likes to shush Jamie often, doesn't he? ::prods him some more::
- TWO/ZOE CLING! AWWW.
- EEEP, A MINOTAUR! ::clings to Two herself:: O, but more saving the day with reality, more or less!
- Hello again, Gulliver! ::curtsies:: The bit where Two finally figures out who he's talking to is TOTALLY one of my favourite bits of the serial - mainly because it was always my favourite parts of the story! & I love how Two says he's looking forward to a long talk with Gulliver one day - aww!
- HEY LOOK, JAMIE'S CLIMBING SOME ROCKS! ::stares:: I'm fond of any fellow who can climb mountains in a kilt, really. ♥
- OMG . . . it's Rapunzel! ::bouncy::
- 'You're not a woodcutter's son by any chance?'
'Uh, no, I'm the son of a piper.'
O, but my lady, Jamie McCrimmon IS something of a prince, he really is! He's a prince among men - valiant, brave & always ready to defend the lives of those he loves. & he he even has the smile of a prince!
- 'It's a great pity you're not a prince. You'd have made rather a good one.'
See what I mean?
- O my, look at where Jamie's ended up now - quite close to where the Master is! & he did it all on his own! ::beams:: & now, he plays with the ticker tape!
- O no . . . the Medusa. ::nibbles fingernails worriedly::
- O, Pat's voice in this . . . ::sways ever so slightly:: This just happens to be one of the many serials which shows why Patrick Troughton gets such a high ranking on the voice!porn scale! (He's a seven point five to an eight! That's high!)
- & now it's part four & Two's got two options - a sword & his pocket mirror! POCKET MIRRORS FTW.
- Jamie has long fingers, I must note. ::twirl:: I like that on fellows!
- & another visit from Gulliver! I rather like the scenes between Jamie & Gulliver - they make me laugh!
- This story is so delightfully metacrackalicious & so full of literary references & stories, just about all of which I know, that it was the idea serial for me to see Two in for the first time, I think.
- Zoe wears Jamie's jacket rather cutely, even though it's rather big on her. But it's cute!
- It's the Karkus! & now, Zoe has one up on Two, which is rather adorable at this moment.
- Also! Zoe's about to have quite a River Tam moment! ::squeals::
- GO ZOE, GO! ::waves pompoms:: KICK HIS ASS! FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!
- & SHE KICKS HIS ASS! ::high-kicks with pompom waving:: ZOE HERIOT FTW! & she did it despite being tiny & in a glittery catsuit! Now THAT'S an awesome girl!
- Two is now wearing the Karkus' cape - & hiding little Zoe in it! ::giggles:: & there's her second surprise appearance! ::smooches her::
- That rocket-shaped thing that Two touches is awfully phallic-looking.
Um, just a note.
- & Two does the most adorable smile I think he ever does just a few moments after that. OMG MY HEART.
- & then he stops being sweet & gets all badass again! FUCK 'EM UP, TWO! ::waves flags::
- 'That's funny, Gulliver walked through there.'
'Gulliver is not real, we are.'
& I love the look on Two's face when he says that. He even does a hand wave!
- Aww, group cling time. ♥♥
- & now . . . here's the Master. Who looks like he's wearing Five's glasses.
- He's a writer who writes a serialised story about a character named Captain Jack Harkaway. UM, ANYONE?
- Dude . . . I totally want to live in the Land of Fiction, for reals.
- Jamie & Zoe managed to escape into a library - but the white robots are there too!
- ZOE & JAMIE GET TRAPPED IN A BOOK WTF?! A French book, no less!
- Now we're at the final part, with Jamie & Zoe trapped in a book & Two has flipped.out.
- HAHA, YOU THINK YOUR TIN ROBOTS CAN GET TWO? IN YOUR FACE - HE'LL CLIMB AWAY!
- O, good, he's safe. But he's so upset about poor Zoe & Jamie. ::hugs him::
- But there they are! But . . . yes, they've been turned into fiction, as the Master said. ::cries:: BUT! Two's got a plan, never fear.
- Heehee, I love how Rapunzel asks Two if he's a prince & he says no. But he IS a Time Lord - would that count?
- O MY FUCKING GOD. ::dies of laughter:: TWO IS ABOUT TO SAVE THE UNIVERSE BY WRITING FANFICTION. SERIOUSLY.
- 'You sent for us, Master?'
::slaps Jamie:: Don't SAY such things! My mind will take them all wrong!
- I like Evil!Jamie & Zoe - they're rather good at it!
- Two's have a moment of sad. Happycat has run out of happy. & ideas. O dear.
- Evil!Jamie & Zoe tricked him! MEANIES! ::pouts::
- So Two's part of the master brain now, eh? Well, that was a mistake to make, I'll say, for now, you've pissed off Two & he will end you.
- Ooo, Jamie!forearms pushing at the book. Yummy! & YAY, THEY'RE OUT OF THE BOOK!
- & TWO'S ABOUT TO SAVE THE WORLD WITH TIME LORD FANFICTION. ILU TWO.
- This is like an improv game between Two & the Master - it's great!
- & now that Jamie & Zoe are out of the book, they're going to save Two!But not with fic, alas.
- But Jamie & Zoe do it in just as nice a way as Two did - PRESS ALL THE BUTTONS & BLOW THE WHOLE DAMN PLACE UP! ::more pompoms::
- LOLZ, JAMIE'S JUST HITTING ANY BUTTON HE CAN & ZOE'S ALL ABOUT THE METHOD.
- & now they're blowing everything up in the room! The robots, that is - not Jamie & Zoe.
- Splendid! Two, Jamie & Zoe are free, along with the Master!
- 'You can't blow up a fictional character, Zoe!'
- O, the TARDIS is back together & off they go! WHEW!
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So, that was a recap-liveblog-what have you of my very first Patrick Troughton serial. & since I hadn't seen it since I'd begin the rewatch-athon, I just LOVED seeing it again - it was like reliving the first time all over again, in a way. I adore this serial so much - it's my third favourite, actually!
Wow, I don't have a lot to say for the end here, so I'll just say that this was a completely awesome story, for both its literary aspects & the total crack factor of it. The crack factor - OMG. Mind-boggling, really. It's something you have to see, I think, to totally enjoy it.
& our final serial for the week is in fact, my second favourite of the Troughton era - The Invasion! (try & guess what the first is. No, really, try & guess!)
The Invasion
- The first part of this serial, sadly, was one of the many burninated serials of Two's era, alas. BUT! We have the original soundtrack & Cosgrove Hall's lovely animation to fix that for us!
- Hee - the dark side of the moon. Two likes Pink Floyd.
- So, the TARDIS came back together, but a huge missile's coming right at them! But luckily, Two managed to set them down on Earth. With cows! AWW.
- ::giggles:: Adventures in making the TARDIS invisible! & they're off to look up Professor Travers!
- Animated!Zoe makes me think of the NANA anime - she looks a bit like Nana Osaki, I think.
- & since I brought it up, the animation of this is just splendid! Very clean, sharp & well-done, I think. Though, of course, it is a bit odd to watch Doctor Who as animation - I've never seen the animated!Ten & Martha, mind you - but it's not too hard to get used to, I think.
- . . . is it bad that I'm still drooling over Zoe when she's animated? ::hides face::
- O! They shot the poor man who helped Two, Jamie & Zoe out of there!
- Ooo, it's good that they got a lift to London!
- & here's our first glance of the sexy miss Isobel Watkins! Even animated, she's sexy! I ♥ Isobel. & her animated form looks a little like Nana Komatsu, I think.
- HEE! Zoe's posing for Isobel! & Isobel doesn't want Jamie to pose! LOLZ!
- ::drools over Zoe & Isobel::
- 'Come on, let's get you fixed up with some gear!'
She's so sixties London! I LOVE HER.
- Ooo, Zoe's quite the pretty model! & I love her boa!
- So, Two & Jamie are off to explore, while Zoe stays behind for somefemmeslashy fun with a camera!
- Two punches a computer! Which Zoe will later blow up. But yes, I feel his frustration keenly.
- HEY, IS THAT AN ANIMATED!BENTON I SEE?
- O, hello Animated!Packer . . . can't say I'm delighted. No use pretending.
- HEY WHAT IS THIS TWO & JAMIE JUST GOT GASSED! THE FUCK?! That's no way to treat visitors!
- O, Packer. You just can't wait to break some bones, can you? ::sigh::
- & now we meet an Animated!Tobias Vaughn! A considerably calm man, I see. & a rather genial man as well.
- O! Jamie's been given a little radio! Aww. That's quite kind of Vaughn, isn't it?
- Ooo, Jamie's snippy with Packer, isn't he?
- Wow. Just from the lack of blinking Vaughn does, Two's already suspicious of him. Two's good, isn't he?
- Now into part two, which is the original surviving serial - o, it's quite good to see Two & Jamie properly again.
- WELL HELLO MISS ISOBEL. ::tries not to stare:: Nice legs - & thighs - I have to say!
- O, there's Benton again! ::waves:: & Two & Jamie just got caught by him & that other fellow with him. O my.
- Isobel's Victrola is from Portobello Road! & she & Zoe are having coffee & sandwiches!& being pleasantly femmeslashy together.
- So Benton - in a very snappy suit, I should note - brought Two & Jamie to see the Brigadier! ::squeals:: & he's now the head of UNIT - a baby!UNIT, since it's so new.
- Team Supersexy, a.k.a Isobel & Zoe, are now paying a visit of their own to IE! ::grins:: I love this part.
(& my, those are some short skirts the girls have on! & Isobel isn't wearing tights!)
- O dear . . . the first words from the Cyber brain. ::shivers:: O, o, please, someone shut it up!
- Hee! Computers should know better than to make Zoe Heriot angry - she can kill you with her brain! Literally!
- 'I will not be beaten by this brainless tin box!'
- GO ZOE, GO! ::waves pompoms some more::
- WHOO-HOO! SHE BLEW THAT SILLY THING RIGHT UP! ::high-fives the lady Zoe:: IN YOUR FACE YOU SILLY BIT OF METAL & WIRE!
- O, dear, Zoe just revealed a bit of her unmentionables right there!
- 'Look, Jamie, sandwiches. I'm hungry. Want one?'
'Sure.'
::gigglesnorts:: Yes, never mind where the girls have gone, just have a sandwich!
- Aww, Jamie loves his little radio - 'Don't break it!' - he's got music in his soul. He'd love an iPod, wouldn't he?
- I have to say, I love Isobel's idea of writing on a wall instead of paper - she does have a good point! If I ever had my own place, I would do that, I think.
- Meep, Isobel & Zoe are more or less in the lion's den, aren't they? ::worries for them::
- GRRR! Vaughn is NOT a very nice man, mistreating poor young ladies like that! ::glares::
- 'Splendid little toy this is, Jamie.'
'Aye, but it doesn't play tunes like mine.'
HEEHEE! O, you two are so cute.
- LOLZ, THEY'RE HAVING TOTAL BICKERBICKERBICKER OVER THE RADIO WITH THE BRIG ON THE OTHER LINE! Please, you two, save it for the TARDIS!
- Vaughn, while quite an awesome villain, really does give me the creeps. It's hard to explain why without ruining the rest of the story, but he's quite spooky to watch.
- Now Two & Jamie will run around walls for a bit in their quite adorable way . . .
- ::glares:: I don't approve of Zoe & Isobel being stuffed in a box like that!
- & I certainly DON'T like Packer pointing guns at Two & Jamie! ::kicks him::
- Part three & a quick recap of what happened before . . . BASTARD! Don't you DARE shove Jamie about like that, or he'll give you just as good a shove! ::growls::
- Is it weird that I sort of like Packer, even though he's a completely sadistic bastard? Or maybe that's just me pitying him . . . hmm.
- Vaughn's charming, genial way is a bit scary at this point.
- 'Oh, that's quite simple - I hate computers and refuse to be bullied by them.'
Much like the lady Zoe! ::grins::
- Packer scares me. Only a coward would hurt a defenceless girl, no matter how often they go around actually thumping people! Grrrr . . .
- 'Much as I detest violence, I find it difficult to restrain Packer's . . . indisputable power of persuasion.'
. . . what? I didn't say anything! WHAT?
- Hey, it's ProfessorKettlewell Watkins!
- Two's a sharp fellow, isn't he? He's onto this trap much faster than even Professor Watkins!
- 'Resourceful'? O, that only scratches the surface of how awesome Two is. ::smirks::
- O my! Jamie's ready to get into a fistfight to get his little sister back! ::glares at Vaughn some more:: Jamie's hardly making an idle threat, sir - he'll run you through if you hurt Zoe, o, he will.
- EEE! Two & Jamie are about to get in the lift now - I ♥ this bit.
- 'Packer - Mr Packer, I obviously can't let you hurt Zoe, and so, I'll have to tell you all you want to know, now.'
'You mean you're willing to talk?'
'Yes. I'm sure Mr Vaughn would - oh, there he is now.'
(Two shoves Packer quite hard to the floor & runs into the lift with Jamie)
FUCK YES! Two: 1, Packer: 0. I LOVE that scene.
- & then Two & Jamie grabbing onto each other in the lift out of sheer terror! ::squeals:: I FUCKING ADORE THAT MOMENT - IT'S ONE OF THEIR BEST.
- LOLZ, Packer fucked up. HARD. ::laughs:: I DO so love watching Packer get pwned by Two & Jamie.
- AWW, Two wiping Jamie's face off. ♥No, I just didn't write total smutfic in my head over that, really. & I love how Jamie says Two's 'a clever wee chappie.' You can hear the love in his voice.
- Every time I get into a lift now, I think of this scene. Then I actually look up at the ceiling of the lift to see if there's a way into the lift shaft. But to be fair, I actually get a little uncomfortable in lifts, due to having been stuck in one when I was a wee lassie.
- ::snickers:: I love how Two & Jamie are practically crawling all over each other when they finally get to the roof.
- GRATUITOUS MOMENT OF ALMOST SEEING UP JAMIE'S KILT! ::APPLAUDS::
- ACK, JAMIE, HOW COULD YOU HIDE IN THAT CRATE?! It looks so much like a coffin!
- & FUCK YOU AND ME - THERE'S SOMETHING IN THERE WITH YOU!
- Now, we've reached part four, which was also a victim of burnination, but we've got animation & soundtrack to fix that! IN YOUR FACE, BBC. ::blows raspberries::
- I admit it, I would flip my shit if I was in a crate with something MOVING. I don't care WHAT it would be, I would flip the fuck on out. Jamie's better at keeping cool than me, I'd say.
- Emotion as a weapon against the Cybermen. In addition to radiation, gold & nail varnish remover. As far as weapons go, that's a good one I think!
- Ooo, Vaughn's letting Packer sass him a bit. Just . . . noting that. ::smiles::
- Animated!Brigadier!
-Nana & Hachi Zoe & Isobel are back, finally! They've been locked up, but they're back & otherwise okay. ::breathes::
- O, JAMIE! ::swoons:: He's off to save Zoe & Isobel! That's pretty princely behaviour!
- Now they're being shot at! ::panics::
- O, Jamie doesn't do well in flying machines . . . & he's being shot at! He must have been so scared. But he made it up the ladder & everyone's okay!
- It sounds very much like Two is starting to put all the pieces together, one fragment at a time now . . .
- Hee! Two & Jamie in a canoe!
- Uh-oh . . . I don't like the sound of Two saying he was right . . .
- O MY GOD, IT'S A FUCKING CYBERMAN. A FUCKING CYBERMAN! ::runs very fast up a tree::
- Moving back into the rest of the surviving serials for this recap . . . JESUS CHRIST IT'S A CYBERMAN! GET IN THE CAR!
- Two & Jamie are going a-rowing in the canoe again!
- ::giggles:: Isobel's flirting with Captain Turner!
- Meeeeeeeep, I really have no words for what to say now that the Cybermen have finally appeared. Just . . . um, scared now. Cybermen do that to me, as we well know.
- Also, I noticed that the Cybermen have a bit of different design from the last time I saw them in The Wheel in Space - more robotic-looking, I think. But they still creep me out!
- HA! The Brig doesn't get put down so easily, not even by a superior! ::grins::
- I think, that after the Cybermen in Tomb of the Cybermen, the way the Cybermen are designed in this story is my favourite look for them. They look spookier & more like the iconic Cybermen that I've seen in The Five Doctors, though they'll undergo more of a change by then as well. But here, they look more familiar to me, which makes them a bit less terrifying, but still awesome & still keeps them as one of my favourite antagonists for the Doctor.
- Jesus Christ on a cracker, I wouldn't get that close to a Cyberman unless I had some kind of gun pointed at me. No fucking way.
- So, we now have an insane Cyberman in the sewers. O, this is a great thing. ::sigh::
- Ooooo, Isobel has a plan! & her photography skills are coming in quite handy there!
- ::glares:: I do think I side with the lady Isobel on this - a girl is PERFECTLY capable of snapping a few shots of a Cyberman! MEN! ::sighs angrily::
- I have to admit, I'm a bit confused as to how one's body can be Cybernetic & their brain still be human. In the Cyberman audios, humans are pumped full of neural dampening fluid which can make humans comatose, or in one case, entirely Cybernetic. Is that how it could be done? ::thinks::
- O, Jamie! ::sighs & glares a bit:: You've known some very tough lassies before - how can you think that girls aren't capable of taking down a few Cybermen?!
- & while we're at it, DO stop copping feels on Isobel in the name of chivalry! ::pokes him::
- O no, they're surrounded on ALL sides by the Cybermen! NOT a good thing, not at all.
- Moving into episode six now & the three of them are still trapped by the Cybermen - but it's the crazy one they encountered! It left them alone, luckily!
- & the batshit Cyberman appears to have attacked its saner friends - but not before one of them could kill someone!
- EEEEEK, IT HAS JAMIE'S LEG! ::screams:: & after a bunch of grenades, one of them STILL lived!
- Isobel is NOT amused by the idea fact that her work looks a bit fake. I don't blame her. ::pets::
- Professor Watkins describes Vaughn as sadistic, a megalomaniac & insane.
All of which I applied quite strongly to Salamander - um. Perhaps he & Vaughn are a similar sort.
(which reminds me of how I said tonentari that if Salamander didn't actually die when he got sucked out of the TARDIS . . . then what would happen if the Cybermen found him? He IS everything they'd want in a Cyberman - or a Cyberleader, anyway . . . & I totally had to make us stop talking about it because it was freaking me out.)
- Aww, Isobel's made tea for everyone. & aww, Jamie's sleeping. How sweet!
- HE KILLED GREGORY! He let the Cybermen just KILL him in the sewers! Just - I - um - OKAY! This man IS truly without a heart. The Cybermen must have removed it when they made his body Cybernetic then.
- Aww, Jamie's off to sleep again. & he says he was in the middle of a lovely dream. Teehee!
- 'Honestly, Jamie. Cybermen underneath London and all you can think about is your sleep!'
::pets Zoe::
- Um, I'm not going to say how sad Packer looks when he seems to think that he won't get to rule the world. Really. I'm not.
- DOCTOR! ::screams again:: His depolariser fell off & he just collapsed! O, but Zoe's putting it back onto his neck!
- & we just saw THE most famous shot of the Cybermen in all of Doctor Who history - the whole lot of them walking in front of . . . Saint Paul's Cathedral, I think it is? O, I think I've got that wrong, but you know the one I mean!
- Now onto part seven, which left off at the Cybermen just exploding out into London streets.
- Zoe's back in her sparkly catsuit, I see! YAY!
- O, Two, you look rather unwell. ::hugs::
- Eeep, Packer's come for poor Professor Watkins. But - FUCKERS SHOT JAMIE IN THE LEG! ::GROWLS:: NOW YOU'VE REALLY GONE & MADE PEOPLE MAD!
- The bit where Zoe comes in & tells Two of how Jamie's doing after being shot actually has a very funny story to it - in the commentary, I think Frazer asks Wendy why she's smiling in that scene & she says that she's not sure if it's because of what she said, or if it was because Pat goosed her at that moment. ::gigglesnorts:: Then later, she says there were so many goosings that she can't remember one from the other. LOOOOVE.
- Aww, Two's sending Zoe with the Brigadier! ::beams:: I like that plan, actually. When dealing with computers & missiles, it's always handy to have a Zoe Heriot along!
- Two is either crazy brave or a complete madman to go back into Vaughn's office, seriously. ::bites nails:: But I've got the faith in Two, so I know he'll be alright.
- ::sighs over Patrick Troughton none-too-quietly:: O, so wonderfully pretty.
- & continuing on in a fanbunny's vein, Zoe's t e h sexy when her catsuit's not zipped all the way up.
- O, but you CAN get all of them - just give Zoe a chance to work out how to do it! IN THIRTY SECONDS, WHILE WEARING A SPARKLY CATSUIT. BEAT THAT, MOTHERFUCKERS! ::tackleglomps Zoe::
'You'd better be right.'
'I am.'
Zoe >>>>>>> everything that isn't her companions & Charley Pollard.
- & the destruction of the invasion fleet = the Cybermen planning on blowing up all life on Earth. Uh, I thought that was NOT in the plan?
- Now we've come to the final part of this serial, part eight & the Cybermen are now altering their plans to kill everyone on Earth. SO NOT GOOD.
- & because she's so awesome, Zoe got her own little gaggle of army fanboys! ::giggles:: Rock on, miss Zoe!
- Okay, the fact that the Cybermen will destroy THEIR OWN KIND in the process of destroying the planet is CHILLING. I mean, CHILLING.
- & Vaughn's device came in handy to blow up the Cyber brain! Well, it works, then!
- Shit son, Packer's flipped his lid - & he finally got his! Death by Cyberman - not a pretty way to go. No no no.
- I kind of feel sorry for Vaughn now - his whole plan just went up in smoke in less than five seconds.
- Okay, Vaughn's gone off on his crazy train now, but he's agreed to help Two. & not out of a desire for redemption, but out of hatred for the Cybermen, which, asnentari & I discussed, was the best way for Vaughn to end up helping the Doctor - if he'd done it out of desire to redeem himself, it would have just totally wrecked his character. Therefore, revenge as his motivation is the best choice out of the two.
- You know, as much as I adore the Classic!Cybermen, I LOVE watching them get killed. I know, that sounds really perverse in a way, but they usually get killed in some pretty awesome ways - like in The Five Doctors & in The Invasion.
- LOLZ, ONE JUST FELL OFF A BUILDING! I LOVE that one!
- Hmm. You'd have thought that by now, UNIT would have learnt that bullets just don't DO anything to Cybermen!
- Well, a bazooka seems to work, apparently.
- & Isobel's snapping away! ::laughs::
- O SNAP! THEY SHOT VAUGHN!
- O, MY GIDDY AUNT! NOW THEY'RE SHOOTING AT TWO! (in one of Pat's CLASSIC moments as the Doctor, I should add! I LOVE that crazy jumping up & down he does!)
- HEE! Isobel wants Two to be her model for just a quick second! ::cracks up:: Mmm, her taste in models is great!
- Twelve minutes. Twelve very long, very tense minutes.
- RIGHT ON TARGET! Blew the Cybermen right out of the sky!
- Aww. Zoe looks a bit sad that Isobel will be travelling all over the world with her camera. She'll totally miss her.
- & we're back in the hayfield where all of this began . . . now they've just got to locate the TARDIS! ::giggles::
- O, Two's found it! After making it all visible again . . . off the three of them go!
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I don't remember how long it took me to actually see this serial when I was seeing more of Two's stuff, but when I saw it, it immediately became one of my favourites. I loved how epic a story it was, & I adored seeing the first beginnings of UNIT & seeing the Brigadier with Two & his Team TARDIS. & of course I loved Isobel. She's easily one of my favourite girls of sixties Who, even if she wasn't officially a companion. But she'd have been a fun one!
& of course, I did so love seeing the Cybermen again, in one of their best serials EVER, in my opinion. For the Cybermen, The Invasion & Tomb of the Cybermen are their best serials, I think.
So, that's it for this week! Next week I'll be doing The Krotons, The Seeds of Death & the audio & sole surviving serial of The Space Pirates.
Then . . . I have The War Games. ::exhales:: Wish me luck, guys?
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
The Ice Warriors - audio
The Enemy of the World - audio & serial
The Web of Fear - audio & serial
Fury From the Deep - audio
The Wheel in Space - audio & serial
Fear of the Daleks (Zoe's Companion Chronicle)
My iTunes ate itself again. ::sobs:: & I FINALLY HAD SOME SEMBLANCE OF ORDER FOR MY TWO/JAMIE MIX! Now I have to REMAKE all my playlists AGAIN. UGH. I fucking HATE doing that; it's SO tedious.
Okay, so last week's recaps were rather depressing, weren't they? Endings, beginnings, endings again . . . yeah, pretty sad. But this week, I get to do a surprisingly lighter series of recaps, because we're doing two of my favourites & all of this week's serials have a bit of nostalgia attached to them, especially the second.
Plus . . . crack! Crack is always good. ::beams::
Anyway, this week, I'll be recapping The Dominators, The Mind Robber & The Invasion! & from here until The Space Pirates I believe, I'll be able to watch serials now, instead of just listening to them, or listening, then switching over to a surviving serial.
Let's get started, shall we? ::cheery grins:: First up, we have The Dominators, which, when
nentari gave me the first batch of Two serials I didn't have, was the very first one I tore into, which shall be explained later on.The Dominators
- I always thought that the Dominators in their uniforms, looked like giant turtles. I mean, they do! They look like their heads could pop down into their uniforms at any moment!
- Random fashion note: . . . why are the Dulcians wearing curtains? No, really - they're wearing huge bits of upholstery! Well, the men are, anyway - the girls get to wear fluttery, rather sheer curtains. But they look very Greek in their fashions, I must say.
- CRASH! EVERYBODY'S MAROONED!
- O, hello TARDIS! ::waves:: & Two, Jamie & Zoe!
- LOLZ, JAMIE BLOWING UP A BEACH BALL! & Zoe looking all sceptical at the idea of a holiday! AWW. & Two in his cute beach chair!
- JAMIE! PUT THE GUN DOWN! ::flaps hands at Jamie::
- EEEK, SKELETONS! O, never mind - just dummies - um . . . hopefully.
- O dear. Company seems to have arrived!
- O I see - a bit of help, not anyone out to kill the three of them! (not yet, anyway)
- Random fashion note two: I ♥ Two's floppy hair! It's so cute on him & of course, just in general!
- ::giggles:: From the back, the Dominators really look like turtles! Turtles covered in seaweed, that is.
- I remember when I first saw only pictures of the Dominators, I thought they were the Ice Warriors - they looked so much like they were from somewhere very cold, what with their funny suits & such.
- 'Oh no, you're not thinking what I think you're thinking, are you?'
'That, I think, Jamie depends on what you think I am thinking.'
THEY ARE SO ADORABLY SYNCHRONISED. ::tee-hees to herself::
- Jamie: ::grabbing repeatedly on the back of Two's coat while Two looks inside the spacecraft::
Two: 'Jamie don't do it!'
::gigglesnorts::
& just in the first episode, Jamie & Two hung onto each other quite a bit. (yeah, I notice this. WHAT?)
- O dear . . . Two & Jamie have been caught by the Quarks!
- & I applaud Jamie's toughness & standing up to mean aliens! ::claps::
- Jamie gets stuck to a wall! & IMMEDIATELY SCREAMS FOR TWO TO HELP HIM. (well, okay, maybe not screams, but that's the first thing he says!)
'Doctor, I can't move, help me!'
- Poor Jamie. He's getting . . . well, probed by aliens.
- . . . Two & Jamie are awfully cute when they're both in a total panic.
- 'Oh, if I could only get away from this wall . . .'
'Shush, Jamie, I am trying to listen.'
'Everybody wants me to shut up. Alright, I will!'
AWWWW.
- I love how totally calm miss Zoe is, even on another planet, sitting in technology centuries ahead of her. She's so adorable!
- ::sighs:: Dulcians . . . they're . . . the way their minds work rather bother me. Talk about thinking inside your box!
- O, Jamie's ready with the smelling salts for Two after that horrid test! & he holds onto him all sweet & gently . . . aww. ::wibble::
'Here . . . come away from that fearful contraption . . . '
O, JAMIE. ::cuddles him::
I think I'd like to make Jamie lots of do you good soup. He could always use it, since he's such a darling.
- Au unintelligent enemy is far less dangerous than an intelligent one, Jamie.'
'Eh?'
'Just act stupid. Do you think you can manage that?'
'Oh, aye, it's easy - (Jamie makes a face)'
HEE! He knows when Two's teasing him.
- ::taps Jamie's knees:: Jamie, it's rather customary to keep one's knees together when in a kilt!
- THEY HELD HANDS TO MAKE A TWO-FOOT JUMP! ♥
- JAMIE DON'T POINT THAT THING AT TWO! ::panics::
- AWW, ZOE'S GETTING NEW CLOTHES. ::giggles::
- 'Well they're not very efficient garments, are they?'
'Well, at least you look more like a girl now.'
'Well I'm not sure - they feel impractical!'
HEE! I love the way that she says how her clothes feel impractical. & she looks rather cute in them, I have to say, even if Zoe doesn't much care for them. It's so funny to hear Zoe fussing over her clothes!
- Dulcians have two hearts as well? O my!
- O MY! Zoe, your dress's fastenings have come loose! & you haven't even done anything yet!
- ROCKS ARE FALLING, BUT NOBODY'S DYING YET.
- Now her fastenings are closed again . . . this isn't random fashion notation, this is FACT & it BUGS THE HELL OUT OF ME!
- I adore how much concern Jamie has for Zoe already. It's so sweet.
- & Zoe's brain is already in action! ::beams & hugs her lots::
- Random fashion note three: NONE OF THE OTHER DULCIAN LADIES HAVE FASTENINGS ON THE BACK OF THEIR DRESSES! WHERE'S MY EXPLANATIONS?
- Dulcians are bloody frustrating, honestly! I would have just flipped out by then on the whole lot of them by then.
- Aww, Two's eating jellybabies!
- Zoe, much like Polly, long ago, is inciting a rebellion of her own! Zoe's got a brain & a sparky little nature already!
- Two's taking the capsule apart . . . while it's flying! ::blinks:: Two, you're quite a madman you know!
- Zoe's fastenings are still wide open & it's still bugging me . . .
- I'M DYING AT THE SIGHT OF TWO WITH HIS FEET IN THE AIR, TRYING TO PLAY WITH THE CAPSULE'S WIRING. OMG. Absoloutely hysterical!
- & JAMIE'S PULLING HIM UP BY THE BACK OF HIS TROUSERS! ::dies giggling:: Or it might be his braces, I don't know, but WHATEVER, IS FUNNY.
- Then they do a wild flop & Jamie's pulling Two up by his FACE. I HAVE NO WORDS.
- ::DIES:: & the way they end up landing - their positions! O, goodness me, those two . . .
- O, Two has a telescope in his pocket! & Jamie just takes it without asking, leaving Two to have a rather annoyed look on his face. ::grins:: But it's a good thing Two had that - they found Zoe!
- ::giggle:: Lurking!Two! ::pets his fluffy head::
- Hmm - Zoe's fastenings have seemed to have been closed now . . .
- Hee! Jamie's got a gun! & he blew up a Quark! ::waves tartan pompoms::
- ::breathes:: O, Jamie & Cully are alright! For now . . . & I do hope the ventilator shaft isn't blocked!
- 'There wasn't a laser gun where I come from, yet us McCrimmons dealt with the Redcoats right enough!'
&JAMIE;
I LOVE HIM. ::flails:: Even on alien worlds, Jamie McCrimmon will KICK YOUR ASS! With rocks, if he has to! HOW COULD YOU NOT LOVE HIM?
- LOLZ, ROCKS FALL, QUARKS DIE. FTW!
- HEE. Two teases even Zoe! ::giggles::
- Random fashion note four: there's just a few occasions where you can see . . . well . . . rather nicely up Jamie's kilt if you're looking . . . which I wasn't, I just happened to notice it!
- JAMIE McCRIMMON - KICKING ALIEN ROBOTIC ASS WITH BEDSHEETS! FOR. THE. WIN. ::kick-dances::
- Hmm - one of the Dominators looks like he's wearing a touch of eyeliner - but it's not pretty on a Dominator.
- HMPH! Both Two & Zoe shushing Jamie when he has an idea! & a BRILLIANT idea, as Two says! ::pokes Two for saying it's such a simple idea that even Jamie could think of it::
- TWO'S GOT THE SONIC SCREWDRIVER BACK IN ACTION, BITCHES! ::applauds::
- & Two can create bombs from the contents of a medical kit! Two >>>>>>> LIFE & THE UNIVERSE.
- WHOO-HOO! Jamie & Cully are blowing up Quarks left & right! Jamie & Ace might have got on well, I think. ::grins::
- LOLZ. I love how Zoe holds onto Two when she hears another explosion. & Two's face makes me giggle madly. Heee.
- Zoe's fastenings are open again, I see . . .
- WHOA, ZOE HAS SOME VERY GOOD ARMS! ::covets::
- & Two's found a very handy way to get rid of the seed device & here comes one of my favourite Two/Jamie grabbyhands bits of EVAR.
- O, lots of shaking . . . Zoe flies out of sight . . .Two clings onto Jamie! RIGHT UP AGAINST THE TARDIS! ::claps hands::
- & the volcano's become active! INTO THE TARDIS NOWPLZ.
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Hmm. It has been quite some time since I last saw The Dominators, but I do still enjoy it! I think it's a great first big adventure for Zoe & I loved how utterly awesome Jamie got to be in so much of it - blowing up Quarks, throwing rocks at them, coming up with really good ideas - O, JAMIE. ::heart eyes::
& of course, I DID love how many lovely Two/Jamie moments there were - I swear, they NEVER ONCE had their hands off each other. EVER. Like . . . nope, there very few scenes that didn't include those two holding onto each other in some way & it was quite lovely. (I capped a few!)
Now, why did I rip into The Dominators when I got it? Simple! It was the serial before The Mind Robber & I REALLY wanted to see what led up to my very first serial of Two's era! & as such, now we come to that serial, which I got madly nostalgic recapping, as you'll see. But to be fair, I really do love it.
The Mind Robber
- Okay, the first time I saw this scene, I was all smiles at how close Two & Jamie were. I was like, 'OMG. Everyone WAS right about you two!'
Also, Jamie's cute when he's scared
- Zoe likes volcanic eruptions! & so does Two! ::giggles:: & o dear, Two's having another spot of trouble with the fluid links . . . he should really get those replaced. I think.
- HEY, FOAM!
- 'Well fine, reality's getting too hot anyway!'
First time I heard that? I was all flaily hands & giggles. & I decided that I quite liked Jamie, though I already did from the get-go.
- & Jamie, who probably doesn't quite understand just WHAT that device will do, is going to hold onto Two & study it anyway. AWW. (how far are we into this? Seven minutes or less? & they HAVEN'T STOPPED TOUCHING EACH OTHER ONCE. I remember being all 'OMG. NOT ONLY WAS EVERYONE RIGHT ABOUT YOU TWO, BUT YOU'RE BOTH EXCEEDING MY EXPECTATIONS!')
- & Jamie throws his hand down over Two's, activates the emergency unit (which is one of my favourite grabby moments of this whole serial), then clings to Two for dear life, while Zoe's all calm & collected under stress.
I always loved that bit - her not flipping out, while Jamie does. I always kind of felt that it underscored the relationship between Two & Jamie at that particular moment.
- MOAR FOAM!
- 'Doctor - we're not actually in flight, are we?'
'No, why?'
'Well, then presumably we've landed. So why isn't the scanner showing anything?'
'Well . . . because . . . well, we're nowhere. It's as simple as that.'
That moment between Two & Zoe has always been & so far, remained one of my favourite bits of Two dialogue out of almost all of his serials. I may be a bit biased, yes, because this was my first Two serial, but I just thought it was brilliantly played. It's subtly creepy & disconcerting without being obvious & I just love it.
- HEE! Jamie telling Zoe she looks quite a mess - awww. ::pets them both::
- SPARKLY CATSUIT! ::SQUEALS:: REALLY SPARKLY CATSUIT, O MY. ::beams::
- I love Zoe's mix of logic & curiosity. Feeling & logic. ♥ I think it's best to have one as well as the other. Otherwise, there's no balance to things.
- OMG JAMIE'S LITTLE FACE! I think this was when I totally fell for him, that look on his face when he can see Scotland on the scanner - my heart practically exploded from all the sweetness & the TOTAL CUTENESS of the moment. O, JAMIE LOVELY. How could you not love a sweetheart like that?
& I should also add, that scene is ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS what comes to mind THE SECOND I listen to the Rufus Wainwright version of Across the Universe. I've come to think of that bit as Jamie's Across the Universe face. & it makes me think of the bit that goes:
Sounds of laughter shades of earth are ringing through my open mind inciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns and calls me on and on across the universe
Yes - it should be no secret that this is totally Jamie's song for me. ♥
- & Zoe's face when she thinks she can see her home - I melt a bit every time I see her look - so wide-eyed & homesick . . . it's just adorable.
(& also, I want Wendy Padbury's eye makeup from that scene. Which was my second reason for getting another pair of false eyelashes.)
- Random fashion note: this serial features one of my second favourite Jamie outfits - his black jumper & his kilt! Very snappy!
- I love how Jamie, as curious as he is himself, won't let Zoe go outside without Two with them. He keeps his almost-little sister in line, he does.
- BUT SHE DOES IT ANYWAY! Headstrong, our miss Zoe is, isn't she?
- & the way Jamie runs out of the TARDIS after Zoe & Two starts calling after him . . . yes, that was another moment where I said to myself the first time I saw it, 'You two are so in love. SO MASSIVELY IN LOVE.'
- I adore the part with Jamie & Zoe outside the TARDIS - it's quite sweet, I think. Creepy, of course, considering how they're . . . well, nowhere, & those robots (which I actually thought were Cybermen the first time I watched this!), but their interactions are very sweet. & yes, even the slap! ::giggles::
- Also, may I say that bagpipes make me cry a little? I just have sad memories associated with them from the very first time I heard them. But they're still quite nice!
- Eeek, the scary, tempting versions of Jamie & Zoe all in white are creeeeepy! But I LOVE Zoe's white sparkly catsuit!
- 'I don't know. But we've got to be careful. We've got to be very, very careful.'
That line has ALWAYS stuck with me for some reason. Why, I don't know. I think it's all in the way its said. But it's been stuck fast in my head ever since!
- Also, I like how Zoe owns up to her actions & admits that it was her fault that they were all put in danger. & how Two says it really isn't her fault.
- O, Jamie's having a dream. I DO wonder what it's about . . . ::giggle::
Though really, Two, don't tell someone to shut up after they have a horrid nightmare! ::poke::
- Hmm. I feel like now is a good time to mention that while this was my first serial of the Troughton era, I still couldn't help finding Patrick Troughton quite attractive in it. I'm not sure what did it at such an early point, but I was just watching & I remember thinking to myself, 'Hmm . . . Patrick Troughton's really kind of handsome!' But this was before I realised that I sort of had a fancy for Two as well . . . but that came a lot later, actually. I don't remember when, but it was a while after this serial. For me at this point, Two was always the Doctor I'd want to go swing-dancing with in 1930s New York & make teach me how to play the recorder. I don't remember when I started finding him sexy as well! ::laughs::
- THE TARDIS EXPLODED. WHAT?! But Zoe & Jamie are still hanging onto the console, luckily . . . & in Zoe's case, much to the delight of male (& the occasional female!) viewers everywhere! ZOE'S SPARKLY BUM FTW!
- & part two picks up where we left off, with the TARDIS exploding into a - well, you could count the bits, but why do that - million pieces, with Zoe & Jamie clinging onto the console & Zoe's adorable backside glittering away at us o-so-temptingly . . . um, er, I mean . . . ::shakes head::
- Ooo, woods!
- & Jamie's just seen a Redcoat! But he's not one to go down without a fight!
- But . . . he got turned into a cardboard cutout . . . yes, WHAT?
- O, hello Two, you're awake! ::snuggles:: & o, Jamie & Zoe are calling out to him, so they're alright.
- Hmm. Is it sacrilige to say that I LOVE any scene where we just have Patrick Troughton acting in a super-fab way all by himself? He's really quite amazing to watch on his own, as well with others.
- OMFG TWO MEETS GULLIVER!! ::FLAILS LIKE A CRAZY GIRL::
Okay, okay, footnote! When I was a little girl, Gulliver's Travels was one of my favourite stories to read. I even had it on cassette & can still remember listening to that. So the first time I saw this serial, I flipped out when Two met Gulliver - it was like a childhood & fandom collision! & it's one of the reasons I fucking adore this serial. IT HAS GULLIVER!
& yes, I DO know what he's saying when he first sees Two - what does that make me? & in addition, I know where everything he says comes from in all of his stories. I told you it was my favourite book!
- Two's so cute in this scene, I must say. ::tickles him::
- 'Would you mind taking that popgun away, it does unsettle me so!'
O, TWO. ::kisses:: Another favourite bit of Two dialogue of mine!
- O, here are the children! ::giggles::
- 'Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me went down to the river to bathe. (all together now) Adam and Eve got drowned, who do you think was saved?'
'Well, Pinch-Me, obviously!'
(they all pinch him)
'No, stop it, don't do that!'
::DIES:: I LOVE that bit. & I fully intend to do that to the barbarian one day.
- Another reason I have to love this story - it's STUFFED with words & literature, as well as cracktastic fun. O, SIIIIIGH! ::happy bounce::
- & he solves the puzzle, only to lose Jamie's face! ::gigglesnorts::
- TWO, YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG! ::tries to look sad but fails::
- THAT AIN'T JAMIE! But it sure is cute, you've got to admit that!
(& a note . . . Two doesn't seem quite as . . . hands-on with his Not!Jamie!Jamie as he is with his proper Jamie. Or that could just be me.)
- 'What's the good of thinking? What we need is a battering ram! One of these trees!'
'When is a door not a door . . . '
'Och, this is no time for riddles!'
MASSIVE LOVE FOR THAT SCENE. It's so cute!
- ZOE IN A JAR?! ::giggle::
- Ooo, more sparkly bum! & even miss Zoe's confused by this Not!Jamie!Jamie.
- Okay, Not!Jamie!Jamie is about to climb a tree & see if there's a way out of the wood. I remember showing this bit to the barbarian at one point, & when it got to the actual tree climbing, she asked, 'Oh, he's [Two] looking up his kilt?'
WITH ALMOST NO PROMPTING FROM ME. I just asked her what she thought of the scene! EVEN THE BARBARIAN COULD SEE THE SLASHTASTICNESS OF TWO/JAMIE & I DIDN'T EVEN HAVE TO USE ANY WORDS.
- During that scene, I thought I noticed a streak of grey on the back of Pat's head - but that just adds to his sexiness, loves. Just adds!
- HELLO GULLIVER! ::waves::
(also, Bernard Horsfall sharing a scene with Patrick Troughton is visually amusing - Pat's so small in comparison! ::giggle::)
- SURPRISE!ZOE! ::laughs:: Zoe's the ultimate surprise!companion - she's so small & adorable! I want to put her in my pocket.
- A space beatnik, a eighteenth-century Scottish piper & a human computer all walk into a darkened wood . . .
- HOLY SHIT SON, IT'S A UNICORN! ::RUNS:: Jamie's dreams are coming true!
- Entering part three now & as we oft do, we're picking up where we left off in the last story, with Jamie's dream about the unicorn coming true & everybody that's not a Time Lord in a grand panic.
- BUT! They stopped it! They stopped it with reality! Um, more or less.
- The Master sounds v. Davros-esque, doesn't he? (okay, I didn't really make that observation on my own; David Maloney pointed it out in the commentary)
& for those of you that aren't sure, no, this is not THE Master - just someone with the same moniker.
- UNEXPECTED!REDCOAT! & Expected!Not!Jamie!Jamie!fierceness!
- LOLZ, Zoe giving Two the verbal slappage for getting Jamie's face wrong the first time!
- OMG JAMIE HAS HIS FACE BACK! ::jumps on him::
But you have to admit . . . both of them WERE cute. When I first watched this, I couldn't really tell the difference - or rather, I didn't see much of one. BUT THAT WAS WHEN I FIRST SAW THIS SERIAL & BARELY KNEW JAMIE, OKAY? DON'T HURT ME.
- Two likes to shush Jamie often, doesn't he? ::prods him some more::
- TWO/ZOE CLING! AWWW.
- EEEP, A MINOTAUR! ::clings to Two herself:: O, but more saving the day with reality, more or less!
- Hello again, Gulliver! ::curtsies:: The bit where Two finally figures out who he's talking to is TOTALLY one of my favourite bits of the serial - mainly because it was always my favourite parts of the story! & I love how Two says he's looking forward to a long talk with Gulliver one day - aww!
- HEY LOOK, JAMIE'S CLIMBING SOME ROCKS! ::stares:: I'm fond of any fellow who can climb mountains in a kilt, really. ♥
- OMG . . . it's Rapunzel! ::bouncy::
- 'You're not a woodcutter's son by any chance?'
'Uh, no, I'm the son of a piper.'
O, but my lady, Jamie McCrimmon IS something of a prince, he really is! He's a prince among men - valiant, brave & always ready to defend the lives of those he loves. & he he even has the smile of a prince!
- 'It's a great pity you're not a prince. You'd have made rather a good one.'
See what I mean?
- O my, look at where Jamie's ended up now - quite close to where the Master is! & he did it all on his own! ::beams:: & now, he plays with the ticker tape!
- O no . . . the Medusa. ::nibbles fingernails worriedly::
- O, Pat's voice in this . . . ::sways ever so slightly:: This just happens to be one of the many serials which shows why Patrick Troughton gets such a high ranking on the voice!porn scale! (He's a seven point five to an eight! That's high!)
- & now it's part four & Two's got two options - a sword & his pocket mirror! POCKET MIRRORS FTW.
- Jamie has long fingers, I must note. ::twirl:: I like that on fellows!
- & another visit from Gulliver! I rather like the scenes between Jamie & Gulliver - they make me laugh!
- This story is so delightfully metacrackalicious & so full of literary references & stories, just about all of which I know, that it was the idea serial for me to see Two in for the first time, I think.
- Zoe wears Jamie's jacket rather cutely, even though it's rather big on her. But it's cute!
- It's the Karkus! & now, Zoe has one up on Two, which is rather adorable at this moment.
- Also! Zoe's about to have quite a River Tam moment! ::squeals::
- GO ZOE, GO! ::waves pompoms:: KICK HIS ASS! FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!
- & SHE KICKS HIS ASS! ::high-kicks with pompom waving:: ZOE HERIOT FTW! & she did it despite being tiny & in a glittery catsuit! Now THAT'S an awesome girl!
- Two is now wearing the Karkus' cape - & hiding little Zoe in it! ::giggles:: & there's her second surprise appearance! ::smooches her::
- That rocket-shaped thing that Two touches is awfully phallic-looking.
Um, just a note.
- & Two does the most adorable smile I think he ever does just a few moments after that. OMG MY HEART.
- & then he stops being sweet & gets all badass again! FUCK 'EM UP, TWO! ::waves flags::
- 'That's funny, Gulliver walked through there.'
'Gulliver is not real, we are.'
& I love the look on Two's face when he says that. He even does a hand wave!
- Aww, group cling time. ♥♥
- & now . . . here's the Master. Who looks like he's wearing Five's glasses.
- He's a writer who writes a serialised story about a character named Captain Jack Harkaway. UM, ANYONE?
- Dude . . . I totally want to live in the Land of Fiction, for reals.
- Jamie & Zoe managed to escape into a library - but the white robots are there too!
- ZOE & JAMIE GET TRAPPED IN A BOOK WTF?! A French book, no less!
- Now we're at the final part, with Jamie & Zoe trapped in a book & Two has flipped.out.
- HAHA, YOU THINK YOUR TIN ROBOTS CAN GET TWO? IN YOUR FACE - HE'LL CLIMB AWAY!
- O, good, he's safe. But he's so upset about poor Zoe & Jamie. ::hugs him::
- But there they are! But . . . yes, they've been turned into fiction, as the Master said. ::cries:: BUT! Two's got a plan, never fear.
- Heehee, I love how Rapunzel asks Two if he's a prince & he says no. But he IS a Time Lord - would that count?
- O MY FUCKING GOD. ::dies of laughter:: TWO IS ABOUT TO SAVE THE UNIVERSE BY WRITING FANFICTION. SERIOUSLY.
- 'You sent for us, Master?'
::slaps Jamie:: Don't SAY such things! My mind will take them all wrong!
- I like Evil!Jamie & Zoe - they're rather good at it!
- Two's have a moment of sad. Happycat has run out of happy. & ideas. O dear.
- Evil!Jamie & Zoe tricked him! MEANIES! ::pouts::
- So Two's part of the master brain now, eh? Well, that was a mistake to make, I'll say, for now, you've pissed off Two & he will end you.
- Ooo, Jamie!forearms pushing at the book. Yummy! & YAY, THEY'RE OUT OF THE BOOK!
- & TWO'S ABOUT TO SAVE THE WORLD WITH TIME LORD FANFICTION. ILU TWO.
- This is like an improv game between Two & the Master - it's great!
- & now that Jamie & Zoe are out of the book, they're going to save Two!
- But Jamie & Zoe do it in just as nice a way as Two did - PRESS ALL THE BUTTONS & BLOW THE WHOLE DAMN PLACE UP! ::more pompoms::
- LOLZ, JAMIE'S JUST HITTING ANY BUTTON HE CAN & ZOE'S ALL ABOUT THE METHOD.
- & now they're blowing everything up in the room! The robots, that is - not Jamie & Zoe.
- Splendid! Two, Jamie & Zoe are free, along with the Master!
- 'You can't blow up a fictional character, Zoe!'
- O, the TARDIS is back together & off they go! WHEW!
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So, that was a recap-liveblog-what have you of my very first Patrick Troughton serial. & since I hadn't seen it since I'd begin the rewatch-athon, I just LOVED seeing it again - it was like reliving the first time all over again, in a way. I adore this serial so much - it's my third favourite, actually!
Wow, I don't have a lot to say for the end here, so I'll just say that this was a completely awesome story, for both its literary aspects & the total crack factor of it. The crack factor - OMG. Mind-boggling, really. It's something you have to see, I think, to totally enjoy it.
& our final serial for the week is in fact, my second favourite of the Troughton era - The Invasion! (try & guess what the first is. No, really, try & guess!)
The Invasion
- The first part of this serial, sadly, was one of the many burninated serials of Two's era, alas. BUT! We have the original soundtrack & Cosgrove Hall's lovely animation to fix that for us!
- Hee - the dark side of the moon. Two likes Pink Floyd.
- So, the TARDIS came back together, but a huge missile's coming right at them! But luckily, Two managed to set them down on Earth. With cows! AWW.
- ::giggles:: Adventures in making the TARDIS invisible! & they're off to look up Professor Travers!
- Animated!Zoe makes me think of the NANA anime - she looks a bit like Nana Osaki, I think.
- & since I brought it up, the animation of this is just splendid! Very clean, sharp & well-done, I think. Though, of course, it is a bit odd to watch Doctor Who as animation - I've never seen the animated!Ten & Martha, mind you - but it's not too hard to get used to, I think.
- . . . is it bad that I'm still drooling over Zoe when she's animated? ::hides face::
- O! They shot the poor man who helped Two, Jamie & Zoe out of there!
- Ooo, it's good that they got a lift to London!
- & here's our first glance of the sexy miss Isobel Watkins! Even animated, she's sexy! I ♥ Isobel. & her animated form looks a little like Nana Komatsu, I think.
- HEE! Zoe's posing for Isobel! & Isobel doesn't want Jamie to pose! LOLZ!
- ::drools over Zoe & Isobel::
- 'Come on, let's get you fixed up with some gear!'
She's so sixties London! I LOVE HER.
- Ooo, Zoe's quite the pretty model! & I love her boa!
- So, Two & Jamie are off to explore, while Zoe stays behind for some
- Two punches a computer! Which Zoe will later blow up. But yes, I feel his frustration keenly.
- HEY, IS THAT AN ANIMATED!BENTON I SEE?
- O, hello Animated!Packer . . . can't say I'm delighted. No use pretending.
- HEY WHAT IS THIS TWO & JAMIE JUST GOT GASSED! THE FUCK?! That's no way to treat visitors!
- O, Packer. You just can't wait to break some bones, can you? ::sigh::
- & now we meet an Animated!Tobias Vaughn! A considerably calm man, I see. & a rather genial man as well.
- O! Jamie's been given a little radio! Aww. That's quite kind of Vaughn, isn't it?
- Ooo, Jamie's snippy with Packer, isn't he?
- Wow. Just from the lack of blinking Vaughn does, Two's already suspicious of him. Two's good, isn't he?
- Now into part two, which is the original surviving serial - o, it's quite good to see Two & Jamie properly again.
- WELL HELLO MISS ISOBEL. ::tries not to stare:: Nice legs - & thighs - I have to say!
- O, there's Benton again! ::waves:: & Two & Jamie just got caught by him & that other fellow with him. O my.
- Isobel's Victrola is from Portobello Road! & she & Zoe are having coffee & sandwiches!
- So Benton - in a very snappy suit, I should note - brought Two & Jamie to see the Brigadier! ::squeals:: & he's now the head of UNIT - a baby!UNIT, since it's so new.
- Team Supersexy, a.k.a Isobel & Zoe, are now paying a visit of their own to IE! ::grins:: I love this part.
(& my, those are some short skirts the girls have on! & Isobel isn't wearing tights!)
- O dear . . . the first words from the Cyber brain. ::shivers:: O, o, please, someone shut it up!
- Hee! Computers should know better than to make Zoe Heriot angry - she can kill you with her brain! Literally!
- 'I will not be beaten by this brainless tin box!'
- GO ZOE, GO! ::waves pompoms some more::
- WHOO-HOO! SHE BLEW THAT SILLY THING RIGHT UP! ::high-fives the lady Zoe:: IN YOUR FACE YOU SILLY BIT OF METAL & WIRE!
- O, dear, Zoe just revealed a bit of her unmentionables right there!
- 'Look, Jamie, sandwiches. I'm hungry. Want one?'
'Sure.'
::gigglesnorts:: Yes, never mind where the girls have gone, just have a sandwich!
- Aww, Jamie loves his little radio - 'Don't break it!' - he's got music in his soul. He'd love an iPod, wouldn't he?
- I have to say, I love Isobel's idea of writing on a wall instead of paper - she does have a good point! If I ever had my own place, I would do that, I think.
- Meep, Isobel & Zoe are more or less in the lion's den, aren't they? ::worries for them::
- GRRR! Vaughn is NOT a very nice man, mistreating poor young ladies like that! ::glares::
- 'Splendid little toy this is, Jamie.'
'Aye, but it doesn't play tunes like mine.'
HEEHEE! O, you two are so cute.
- LOLZ, THEY'RE HAVING TOTAL BICKERBICKERBICKER OVER THE RADIO WITH THE BRIG ON THE OTHER LINE! Please, you two, save it for the TARDIS!
- Vaughn, while quite an awesome villain, really does give me the creeps. It's hard to explain why without ruining the rest of the story, but he's quite spooky to watch.
- Now Two & Jamie will run around walls for a bit in their quite adorable way . . .
- ::glares:: I don't approve of Zoe & Isobel being stuffed in a box like that!
- & I certainly DON'T like Packer pointing guns at Two & Jamie! ::kicks him::
- Part three & a quick recap of what happened before . . . BASTARD! Don't you DARE shove Jamie about like that, or he'll give you just as good a shove! ::growls::
- Is it weird that I sort of like Packer, even though he's a completely sadistic bastard? Or maybe that's just me pitying him . . . hmm.
- Vaughn's charming, genial way is a bit scary at this point.
- 'Oh, that's quite simple - I hate computers and refuse to be bullied by them.'
Much like the lady Zoe! ::grins::
- Packer scares me. Only a coward would hurt a defenceless girl, no matter how often they go around actually thumping people! Grrrr . . .
- 'Much as I detest violence, I find it difficult to restrain Packer's . . . indisputable power of persuasion.'
. . . what? I didn't say anything! WHAT?
- Hey, it's Professor
- Two's a sharp fellow, isn't he? He's onto this trap much faster than even Professor Watkins!
- 'Resourceful'? O, that only scratches the surface of how awesome Two is. ::smirks::
- O my! Jamie's ready to get into a fistfight to get his little sister back! ::glares at Vaughn some more:: Jamie's hardly making an idle threat, sir - he'll run you through if you hurt Zoe, o, he will.
- EEE! Two & Jamie are about to get in the lift now - I ♥ this bit.
- 'Packer - Mr Packer, I obviously can't let you hurt Zoe, and so, I'll have to tell you all you want to know, now.'
'You mean you're willing to talk?'
'Yes. I'm sure Mr Vaughn would - oh, there he is now.'
(Two shoves Packer quite hard to the floor & runs into the lift with Jamie)
FUCK YES! Two: 1, Packer: 0. I LOVE that scene.
- & then Two & Jamie grabbing onto each other in the lift out of sheer terror! ::squeals:: I FUCKING ADORE THAT MOMENT - IT'S ONE OF THEIR BEST.
- LOLZ, Packer fucked up. HARD. ::laughs:: I DO so love watching Packer get pwned by Two & Jamie.
- AWW, Two wiping Jamie's face off. ♥
- Every time I get into a lift now, I think of this scene. Then I actually look up at the ceiling of the lift to see if there's a way into the lift shaft. But to be fair, I actually get a little uncomfortable in lifts, due to having been stuck in one when I was a wee lassie.
- ::snickers:: I love how Two & Jamie are practically crawling all over each other when they finally get to the roof.
- GRATUITOUS MOMENT OF ALMOST SEEING UP JAMIE'S KILT! ::APPLAUDS::
- ACK, JAMIE, HOW COULD YOU HIDE IN THAT CRATE?! It looks so much like a coffin!
- & FUCK YOU AND ME - THERE'S SOMETHING IN THERE WITH YOU!
- Now, we've reached part four, which was also a victim of burnination, but we've got animation & soundtrack to fix that! IN YOUR FACE, BBC. ::blows raspberries::
- I admit it, I would flip my shit if I was in a crate with something MOVING. I don't care WHAT it would be, I would flip the fuck on out. Jamie's better at keeping cool than me, I'd say.
- Emotion as a weapon against the Cybermen. In addition to radiation, gold & nail varnish remover. As far as weapons go, that's a good one I think!
- Ooo, Vaughn's letting Packer sass him a bit. Just . . . noting that. ::smiles::
- Animated!Brigadier!
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- O, JAMIE! ::swoons:: He's off to save Zoe & Isobel! That's pretty princely behaviour!
- Now they're being shot at! ::panics::
- O, Jamie doesn't do well in flying machines . . . & he's being shot at! He must have been so scared. But he made it up the ladder & everyone's okay!
- It sounds very much like Two is starting to put all the pieces together, one fragment at a time now . . .
- Hee! Two & Jamie in a canoe!
- Uh-oh . . . I don't like the sound of Two saying he was right . . .
- O MY GOD, IT'S A FUCKING CYBERMAN. A FUCKING CYBERMAN! ::runs very fast up a tree::
- Moving back into the rest of the surviving serials for this recap . . . JESUS CHRIST IT'S A CYBERMAN! GET IN THE CAR!
- Two & Jamie are going a-rowing in the canoe again!
- ::giggles:: Isobel's flirting with Captain Turner!
- Meeeeeeeep, I really have no words for what to say now that the Cybermen have finally appeared. Just . . . um, scared now. Cybermen do that to me, as we well know.
- Also, I noticed that the Cybermen have a bit of different design from the last time I saw them in The Wheel in Space - more robotic-looking, I think. But they still creep me out!
- HA! The Brig doesn't get put down so easily, not even by a superior! ::grins::
- I think, that after the Cybermen in Tomb of the Cybermen, the way the Cybermen are designed in this story is my favourite look for them. They look spookier & more like the iconic Cybermen that I've seen in The Five Doctors, though they'll undergo more of a change by then as well. But here, they look more familiar to me, which makes them a bit less terrifying, but still awesome & still keeps them as one of my favourite antagonists for the Doctor.
- Jesus Christ on a cracker, I wouldn't get that close to a Cyberman unless I had some kind of gun pointed at me. No fucking way.
- So, we now have an insane Cyberman in the sewers. O, this is a great thing. ::sigh::
- Ooooo, Isobel has a plan! & her photography skills are coming in quite handy there!
- ::glares:: I do think I side with the lady Isobel on this - a girl is PERFECTLY capable of snapping a few shots of a Cyberman! MEN! ::sighs angrily::
- I have to admit, I'm a bit confused as to how one's body can be Cybernetic & their brain still be human. In the Cyberman audios, humans are pumped full of neural dampening fluid which can make humans comatose, or in one case, entirely Cybernetic. Is that how it could be done? ::thinks::
- O, Jamie! ::sighs & glares a bit:: You've known some very tough lassies before - how can you think that girls aren't capable of taking down a few Cybermen?!
- & while we're at it, DO stop copping feels on Isobel in the name of chivalry! ::pokes him::
- O no, they're surrounded on ALL sides by the Cybermen! NOT a good thing, not at all.
- Moving into episode six now & the three of them are still trapped by the Cybermen - but it's the crazy one they encountered! It left them alone, luckily!
- & the batshit Cyberman appears to have attacked its saner friends - but not before one of them could kill someone!
- EEEEEK, IT HAS JAMIE'S LEG! ::screams:: & after a bunch of grenades, one of them STILL lived!
- Isobel is NOT amused by the idea fact that her work looks a bit fake. I don't blame her. ::pets::
- Professor Watkins describes Vaughn as sadistic, a megalomaniac & insane.
All of which I applied quite strongly to Salamander - um. Perhaps he & Vaughn are a similar sort.
(which reminds me of how I said to
nentari that if Salamander didn't actually die when he got sucked out of the TARDIS . . . then what would happen if the Cybermen found him? He IS everything they'd want in a Cyberman - or a Cyberleader, anyway . . . & I totally had to make us stop talking about it because it was freaking me out.)- Aww, Isobel's made tea for everyone. & aww, Jamie's sleeping. How sweet!
- HE KILLED GREGORY! He let the Cybermen just KILL him in the sewers! Just - I - um - OKAY! This man IS truly without a heart. The Cybermen must have removed it when they made his body Cybernetic then.
- Aww, Jamie's off to sleep again. & he says he was in the middle of a lovely dream. Teehee!
- 'Honestly, Jamie. Cybermen underneath London and all you can think about is your sleep!'
::pets Zoe::
- Um, I'm not going to say how sad Packer looks when he seems to think that he won't get to rule the world. Really. I'm not.
- DOCTOR! ::screams again:: His depolariser fell off & he just collapsed! O, but Zoe's putting it back onto his neck!
- & we just saw THE most famous shot of the Cybermen in all of Doctor Who history - the whole lot of them walking in front of . . . Saint Paul's Cathedral, I think it is? O, I think I've got that wrong, but you know the one I mean!
- Now onto part seven, which left off at the Cybermen just exploding out into London streets.
- Zoe's back in her sparkly catsuit, I see! YAY!
- O, Two, you look rather unwell. ::hugs::
- Eeep, Packer's come for poor Professor Watkins. But - FUCKERS SHOT JAMIE IN THE LEG! ::GROWLS:: NOW YOU'VE REALLY GONE & MADE PEOPLE MAD!
- The bit where Zoe comes in & tells Two of how Jamie's doing after being shot actually has a very funny story to it - in the commentary, I think Frazer asks Wendy why she's smiling in that scene & she says that she's not sure if it's because of what she said, or if it was because Pat goosed her at that moment. ::gigglesnorts:: Then later, she says there were so many goosings that she can't remember one from the other. LOOOOVE.
- Aww, Two's sending Zoe with the Brigadier! ::beams:: I like that plan, actually. When dealing with computers & missiles, it's always handy to have a Zoe Heriot along!
- Two is either crazy brave or a complete madman to go back into Vaughn's office, seriously. ::bites nails:: But I've got the faith in Two, so I know he'll be alright.
- ::sighs over Patrick Troughton none-too-quietly:: O, so wonderfully pretty.
- & continuing on in a fanbunny's vein, Zoe's t e h sexy when her catsuit's not zipped all the way up.
- O, but you CAN get all of them - just give Zoe a chance to work out how to do it! IN THIRTY SECONDS, WHILE WEARING A SPARKLY CATSUIT. BEAT THAT, MOTHERFUCKERS! ::tackleglomps Zoe::
'You'd better be right.'
'I am.'
Zoe >>>>>>> everything that isn't her companions & Charley Pollard.
- & the destruction of the invasion fleet = the Cybermen planning on blowing up all life on Earth. Uh, I thought that was NOT in the plan?
- Now we've come to the final part of this serial, part eight & the Cybermen are now altering their plans to kill everyone on Earth. SO NOT GOOD.
- & because she's so awesome, Zoe got her own little gaggle of army fanboys! ::giggles:: Rock on, miss Zoe!
- Okay, the fact that the Cybermen will destroy THEIR OWN KIND in the process of destroying the planet is CHILLING. I mean, CHILLING.
- & Vaughn's device came in handy to blow up the Cyber brain! Well, it works, then!
- Shit son, Packer's flipped his lid - & he finally got his! Death by Cyberman - not a pretty way to go. No no no.
- I kind of feel sorry for Vaughn now - his whole plan just went up in smoke in less than five seconds.
- Okay, Vaughn's gone off on his crazy train now, but he's agreed to help Two. & not out of a desire for redemption, but out of hatred for the Cybermen, which, as
nentari & I discussed, was the best way for Vaughn to end up helping the Doctor - if he'd done it out of desire to redeem himself, it would have just totally wrecked his character. Therefore, revenge as his motivation is the best choice out of the two.- You know, as much as I adore the Classic!Cybermen, I LOVE watching them get killed. I know, that sounds really perverse in a way, but they usually get killed in some pretty awesome ways - like in The Five Doctors & in The Invasion.
- LOLZ, ONE JUST FELL OFF A BUILDING! I LOVE that one!
- Hmm. You'd have thought that by now, UNIT would have learnt that bullets just don't DO anything to Cybermen!
- Well, a bazooka seems to work, apparently.
- & Isobel's snapping away! ::laughs::
- O SNAP! THEY SHOT VAUGHN!
- O, MY GIDDY AUNT! NOW THEY'RE SHOOTING AT TWO! (in one of Pat's CLASSIC moments as the Doctor, I should add! I LOVE that crazy jumping up & down he does!)
- HEE! Isobel wants Two to be her model for just a quick second! ::cracks up:: Mmm, her taste in models is great!
- Twelve minutes. Twelve very long, very tense minutes.
- RIGHT ON TARGET! Blew the Cybermen right out of the sky!
- Aww. Zoe looks a bit sad that Isobel will be travelling all over the world with her camera. She'll totally miss her.
- & we're back in the hayfield where all of this began . . . now they've just got to locate the TARDIS! ::giggles::
- O, Two's found it! After making it all visible again . . . off the three of them go!
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I don't remember how long it took me to actually see this serial when I was seeing more of Two's stuff, but when I saw it, it immediately became one of my favourites. I loved how epic a story it was, & I adored seeing the first beginnings of UNIT & seeing the Brigadier with Two & his Team TARDIS. & of course I loved Isobel. She's easily one of my favourite girls of sixties Who, even if she wasn't officially a companion. But she'd have been a fun one!
& of course, I did so love seeing the Cybermen again, in one of their best serials EVER, in my opinion. For the Cybermen, The Invasion & Tomb of the Cybermen are their best serials, I think.
So, that's it for this week! Next week I'll be doing The Krotons, The Seeds of Death & the audio & sole surviving serial of The Space Pirates.
Then . . . I have The War Games. ::exhales:: Wish me luck, guys?
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
The Ice Warriors - audio
The Enemy of the World - audio & serial
The Web of Fear - audio & serial
Fury From the Deep - audio
The Wheel in Space - audio & serial
Fear of the Daleks (Zoe's Companion Chronicle)
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