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riverdressesSo! Here we all are, with Two's final serial, The War Games. This serial is the longest of Two's era, clocking in at ten episodes overall, making it two shorter than One's epic serial The Daleks' Master Plan, or, as I like to think of it, the serial where a hell of a lot of people die in it.
At the start of the rewatch-athon, I wasn't sure how I would watch this story, since it's so huge. I finally decided to dedicate a full week to watching it, with my recap being posted early Saturday morning as usual, with each story having its own cut to make it easier for people to read.
& as I said last week, here's the layout for the final half of the great & mighty Troughton rewatch-athon. (folks, there was a reason it's called 'the great & mighty Troughton rewatch-athon' - it wouldn't have been if I was stopping here!)
Note: I know most of you know that I've broken almost all ties with the new series (until Eleven arrives, anyway), but I'm including Midnight because it features David Troughton as one of the main characters - by including it, I'm coming full circle, as I see it. It's like this: if it hadn't been for the new series, I never would have came to the classic series & never would have found a) half of you lot & b) so many of my favourite serials & my three favourite Doctors. So, while I'd rather not sit through Midnight again, for David Troughton, I shall do it with pleasure.
The War Games - Episode One
- Hmm. This is a Terrance Dicks & Malcolm Hulke story. I quite like Terrance Dicks-written serials & I LOVED the Sea Devils, so the main story could be interesting, at least. Heh.
- LOLZ, JAMIE STEPS IN MUD AS SOON AS HE GETS OUT OF THE TARDIS & EVERYONE ELSE LAUGHS. ::gigglesnorts::
'What a place.'
- ZOE'S WEARING A MAC! WHAT? Zoe, no skirts?
- JAMIE, DON'T TOUCH THE BARBED WIRE. ::slaps::
- . . . World War I, isn't it? I & I only know this from some godawful horror movie I saw that was set very literally, in the trenches of World War I.
- WHOA, KILT BILLOWING UPWARDS!
- & Two pulls him out of the way! By the waist! ::hearts::
- I like Zoe's mac. It's cute & practical for where she is now.
- The major recognised Jamie as a Highlander - that's a first!
- Um. General Smythe . . . well, he looks to be using something that I wouldn't thought around during this war . . . hmm.
- Jamie, it isn't proper to get snappy with military men, you know. But I do like my Highlanders feisty & hot-blooded!
- Random fashion note: I'm liking Jamie's fab jacket! Goes well with his kilt, I think!
- 'Well there's no need to keep shouting at us, you know!'
ZOE! Reminds me of Victoria & her snappiness in The Enemy of the World a bit.
- I'm only twelve minutes in, & I'm already wondering how Jamie must feel, being in a place like this. When he met the Doctor, he himself was in the middle of a war - a very ugly, & ultimately, a very ugly defeat for his people during the eighteenth century. It - I just wonder if it brings back any memories for him.
- . . . Smythe just hypnotised someone, I think. Um. Creepy!
- HE'S DOING IT AGAIN WHAT THE HELL?
- Random fashion note two: Pat's got no sideburns! YAY! He looks prettier without them, I think.
- Well that was a positively shit trial. ::glares:: & knowing how this comes out in the end . . . Two just can't get a fair trial, cam he? & Jamie & Zoe can't get a fair sentence, can thet?
- Okay, Smythe keeps hypnotising people & it's creepy. Yeah, there is something very, VERY wrong here.
- WHAT NO, YOU'RE NOT EXECUTING TWO AT DAWN, SAVE FOR OVER JAMIE'S DEAD BODY!
- OMG, TWO KISSED ZOE ON THE HEAD! AWWW! ::wibbles & cries::
'Goodbye my dear.'
Two . . . please, not so early on in the serial. Please.
- Random fashion note: Zoe's outfit UNDER her mac is really cute too! (I always thought Wendy Padbury had been pregnant at the time of this serial, which is why she wore the mac, but nope, I don't see such!)
- Oooo, sneaky little miss Heriot - you found your way back to the Doctor! ::hugs her::
- BASTARDS! YOU CAN'T EXECUTE HIM, YOU CAN'T! He hasn't done anything!
- YOU SHOT HIM!
The War Games - Episode Two
- WAIT! THEY DIDN'T SHOOT HIM! ::collapses:: & Zoe's getting him away! Run, run!
- JAMIE! ::clings desperately::
- HOLY SHIT. HE'S IN A FUCKING CELL WITH A REDCOAT. A REDCOAT! Who thinks it's 1745 - Jamie's own time! WHAT?
- Ooo, Authoritative!Two - sexy!
- Jamie's got a stick!
- & ONE FUCKING SEXY & FIERCE FACE ON. O, BABY.
- MORE Authoritative!Two! UNF, PAT, WHY SO SEXY WHEN YOU'RE ALL SHOUTY?
- OMG, GET YOUR FILTHY REDCOAT HANDS OFF OF MY JAMIE! Wait - never mind, it was a fakeout! & LOLZ, I LOVE JAMIE - 'You fight pretty well - for a Redcoat!'
- Lady Jennifer appears to be getting her memory back . . . like the Redcoat.
(also, I like Lady Jennifer so far. She was kind to a rather upset Zoe, which was good.)
- YOU GET YOUR FUCKING HANDS OFF OF MY JAMIE YOU BASTARDS!
- O, guh, Two shouting & being all . . . commanding with Jamie. O my word.
- HA! Zoe Heriot, intergalactic supergirl, taking out officers with flower vases! ::grins:: O, Zoe. ♥
- Carstairs & Lady Jennifer seem to be onto something very important here . . . this is a good sign, I think.
- Ooo, Lady Jennifer's pretty good at distracting the general's assistant! ::smiles:: She's seeming pretty awesome herself!
- ::giggle:: Lady Jennifer's awesome. Yeah, I think we can say that for sure.
- O dear. Carstairs AND Lady Jennifer can't see the screen - wait, now they can!
- ::sighs:: Carstairs believes them! He's going to help Two, Jamie & Zoe escape!
- I feel rather bad for all the people Smythe keeps hypnotising, I really rather do.
- Wait . . . the white fog that Lady Jennifer, Carstairs & the Redcoat all mentioned . . . ::looks lost::
- WHAT THE FUCK ROMAN SOLDIERS?! WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK?!
- & I just noted - Derrick Sherwin's wife is playing Lady Jennifer!
The War Games - Episode Three
- Okay, so, Roman soldiers. Like I said . . . WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK? They were just on a World War I battlefield!
- Two thousand years ago? What . . . what?
- Ooo, Jamie's ready for a fight, isn't he? ::twirl::
- OMG. THIS IS THE SCENE WHERE TWO DOES THE THING WITH JAMIE'S SPORRAN . . . O MY.
- LOLZ, TUNING FORK REFERENCE! ::snorts::
- JESUS, TWO, DON'T PLAY WITH EXPLOSIVES LIKE THAT.
- HE'S GRABBING THE BITS OF JAMIE'S SPORRAN NOW. ::giggles::
- I also quite love Carstairs, have I not mentioned that? He's kind of badass.
- Aww, Jamie's making more of his epic faces!
- BOOM! Got the map!
- Wait, the whole map is divided by time zones? O, yes, yes I see! Then they must be all different wars in human history.
- & he's being John Smith again. O, Two. ♥
- EEK, REVOLVER ON TWO WHAT?!
- O my . . . they've been captured by Germans.
- TWO'S GOT HIS SONIC SCREWDRIVER OUT, MOTHERFUCKERS! ::WAVES POMPOMS:: HE'S EVEN AWED A GERMAN WITH IT! ::adds to list of the abilities of the sonic screwdriver::
- O, FUCKSOCKS. Looks like Smythe's not the only general who can hypnotise people under his command . . .
- WHAT IS WITH THE SHOOTING, JESUS. CAN'T ANYONE BE LOCKED UP AGAIN?
- O, maybe this one's not as good as it as Smythe is . . . he remembers the sonic screwdriver!
- O. MY. WORD. The War Chief has just made his first appearance . . . & dude, he's got a lot of bling around his neck. ::giggle::
- Uh-oh . . . the Civil War now?
- Carstairs calls Jamie by his first name. I like that, for some reason.
- HA! JAMIE McCRIMMON WILL KICK YOUR ASS IN ANY TIME PERIOD, ANY PLANET, ANY PLACE, BITCHES. ::loves on Jamie::
(kind of random, but when I wrote that, I thought of a line from one of my favourite Bikini Kill songs, Feels Blind, which I usually associate with Romana, or sometimes Sarah Jane - 'there are no boundaries to what I can be' - which is very true of Jamie - no matter where he is, or what's happening, he can't be stopped once he's set his mind to doing something.)
- They captured Carstairs?! O, BUGGER!!
- NO! THE . . . the thing is taking off with Two & Zoe INSIDE of it!
The War Games - Episode Four
- Jamie & Lady Jennifer have been caught by Confederate soldiers, I think & Two & Zoe are . . . well, they're inside a second TARDIS.
- Germans, Romans, Civil War soldiers . . . they're all in some kind of hypnotic trance? I . . . I . . . ai ya!
- O, wait, they're not Confederates, they're Northern soldiers. & ahem, sirs, Jamie is Scottish - not English. British would be more apt, if you insist on being pedantic. But he's not English!
- Well, the Southern soldiers are a bit politer - up until they were re-hypnotised! ::glare::
- ::giggle:: That eyewear is LOLZ. Seriously!
- Random fashion note three: Jamie's SIDEBURNS! They're bordering on QUITE wild now!
- So there's a resistance forming among all the factions of the different wars? Hmm! This could be useful . . .
- OMFG JAMIE ON A HORSE! ::squees:: & he can ride! O, Jamie. ::draws hearts again::
- O, no - Carstairs! But he recognises Two & Zoe!
- O my . . . this . . . reconditioning scene I think just disturbed me more than both Serenity & The Enemy of the World combined.
- O, Jamie McCrimmon, you're practically a knight in shining armour! ::swoons:: Or, well, you would have been, if you hadn't been caught, yes?
- For some reason, Lady Jennifer reminds me a little of Barbara Wright. It's hard to say why, but she does a bit.
- Random fashion note four: Jamie has a nice backside, even under that kilt. ::eyes::
- When Two saw the War Chief . . . he freaked the fuck out! I mean, he really freaked out there!
- No, you can't shoot Zoe! Not Zoe, please! ::wibbles::
The War Games - Episode Five
- I'd offer Zoe the suggestion of breaking his wrist, or worse, but I like Carstairs & if he shook it off once, he'll shake it again!
- O! There's a Highlander soldier among the resistance fighters! I saw his sporran & kilt.
- WHOA, POP-ART WALLS OF AWESOME! But ooo, a little dizzying in a spiral style like that.
- What . . . what are they doing to poor Zoe? I can't quite figure it out.
- Lady Jennifer seems to have grasped the idea of such advanced technology & concepts very well, I must say. Maybe that's why she reminds me of Barbara.
- Hooray for Zoe's total recall memory!
- Hee - Two has a bit of hat hair after he takes off that helmet thing!
- Zoe's photographic memory FTW!
- O HAY IT'S THE SPIRAL THING FROM The Mind Robber!
- Hmm . . . the War Chief looks like he wears eyeliner. No, I'm serious, he DOES.
- I LOVE LADY JENNIFER. ENOUGH SAID. & she totally called Jamie out on his 'you're just a woman' shtick! ::grins:: I love Jamie, but I love it even more when he gets called out on his 'you're just a woman' bullshit. Pleases the riot grrrl in me.
- The truth machine? What a clunky name! Sounds more like a fancified mind probe to me! & that wouldn't be too much of a surprise, considering that this is a Terrance Dicks-half-helmed story . . .
- JAMIE! ::screams louder than Mel ever would have:: YOU KILLED HIM! BASTARDS!
The War Games - Episode Six
- O, I see how the TARDIS-like box opens - it slides its opening out, not down, like I thought it did.
- NO, NO, DON'T LEAVE JAMIE, PLEASE! ::cries:: PLEASE!
- . . . we have just had our first mention of the Time Lords. In relation to the War Chief.
- Hee, Zoe taped Two's finger to the metal & plastic thingy. ::giggle::
- O, Jamie's alive! & . . . he's very beautiful unconscious. Very beautiful. & even when he's being carried by two fellows in funny clothes.
- THE RETURN OF LIEUTENANT CARSTAIRS, THE MOST BADASS THING TO EVER FLY OUT OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR!
- OMFG IT'S DAVID TROUGHTON!! DAVID! ::swoons:: He has a lovely voice, you know. & very pretty hair. & sigh, he does look quite a bit like his father.
- JAMIE! JAMIE! ::holds onto him:: Let him go, please!
- I.L.Y. CARSTAIRS.
- Random fashion note five: I like the hole in Two's trousers.
- No, no, David, don't give him his monocle - shit, he did! & I think he's been hypnotised . . . again. Dammit. ::sighs::
- The War Chief, I have to say, is pretty good at what he does
- UNF, PAT'S FOREHEAD. THAT was pretty & unexpected! ::giggles::
- LOLZ, ZOE IN A WORLD WAR I UNIFORM . . . o how cute!
- ::hearts Carstairs even more:: & Jamie's staying with Two, despite what He's just been put through. There are no boundaries to what he can be, or his bravery.
- FUCK YOU FOR HYPNOTISING THE PRETTY & ADORABLE DAVID TROUGHTON! ::kicks::
- O, come on - remember! ::shakeshake::
- Ooo - can I be extra-shallow & say that David sure is cute in a fistfight? & with his hair all mussed?
- Random fashion note number six, cross-reference with David Troughton fangirling: David clearly inherited his father's floppy hair - & he wears it just as well!
- TWO & COMPANY ARE IN GAS MASKS!Are you my daddy?
- Random fashion note seven: Jamie, with his floppy hair, wears that uniform hat very well! Not sure on the coat, but the hat, yes!
The War Games - Episode Seven
- Two waves the white flag of surrender - or truce, as he says.
- HA! IN YOUR FACES, ASSHATS! TWO >>>>>> ALL YOU ALL! ::waves pompoms::
- So they're now in the Roman zone - this is SO weird . . .
- O LOOK. ROMANS.
- Now they appear to be back in the World War I zone . . . WHAT NEXT TO A MACHINE GUN?!
- Unexpected!Revolutionary!War!Soldier taking out a World War I soldier . . . awesome!
- CARSTAIRS, WHY SO FUCKING AWESOME? ::tacklehugs::
- HAHA, BITCHES CAN'T KILL TWO IF THEY WANT THEIR MIND PROBE BACK!
- What are you, a record player? HE'S NOT SENDING HELP, TWIT.
- Good thinking, Zoe-girl. ♥
- TWO > THE UNIVERSE. THAT IS ALL. In the zombie apocalypse, I claim Two for my team, got it?
- Ooo, Carstairs can speak French! Quite a learned man. ::sparkles::
- FUCKERS, LET GO OF MY DOCTOR! ::pounces like Leela::
The War Games - Episode Eight
- You know, if Leela were with Two & the rest of the resistance, there would be many dead guards around. Just a thought.
- Okay, we have a renegade Time Lord, possibly two playing this game & men who seem like unconverted Cybermen with all their talk of logic & such. Um . . .
- Screw. You. Two's held out against worse sorts of torture. He can hold out against yours.
- Carstairs is win. I love him. ::draws big hearts::
- Wow . . . Jamie's in charge of action of the château - Jamie . . . I'm really proud of you. ::hugs him::
- Now the War Chief & the Doctor . . . they're talking again. As friends. Or rather, enemies who knew each other as friends once.
- The War Chief seems to know jack shit about who the real vicious races in the galaxy are - Daleks. Cybermen. Sontarans. They would have faired better in this game than humans.
- 'Seems to have rather privative ideas about women knowing their place.'
'Has he now? Sounds like a nice chap!'
::pokes Jamie for that & hugs Zoe::
- Well, hello there, Jamie! Look at you all kitted out like a twentieth century soldier!
- The Doctor & the War Chief - they aren't, I suppose, but they are very much like the Doctor & the Master.
- Speaking of which, I'm now nearly done with the story, & I still haven't formed an opinion as to if the War Chief is an early version of the Master. I . . . I just don't know. The Master & the Doctor, as we all know, aren't the only renegade Time Lords to have ever existed - there's the Rani, the Meddling Monk, Iris Wildthyme & most likely more - who says that that there aren't more renegades like the Master out there? He doesn't have the Gallifreyan monopoly on evil, I think - so who's to say that he has to be the Master?
In a more meta-type of comment, I wouldn't discount the War Chief as being a possible or even direct inspiration for the Master, much like I don't discount the Robomen of The Dalek Invasion of Earth as being a possible source of inspiration for the Cybermen later on. So right now - I don't think the War Chief & the Master are one in the same, but more that one inspired the other, in certain ways.
- Two . . . you DIDN'T. No. You FUCKING DIDN'T. Please, tell me you didn't just sell your own friends out to save your own life . . . you wouldn't do that. Would you?
The War Games - Episode Nine
- Two . . . you - NO. I WON'T BELIEVE IT. I FUCKING WON'T UNTIL HE ADMITS IT OF HIS OWN FREE WILL.But it's totally possible he slept with the War Chief.
- . . . he's kind of grabbing on Two now.BITCH THAT'S JAMIE'S PROPERTY!
- Jamie's being like me - he won't believe Two would betray him & the others. & I have a feeling that, like me, Jamie wouldn't believe otherwise until Two said it himself.
- I love Two's cockiness. It's terribly sexy on him.
- Alright, I haven't said it yet, but we're on the next to last episode & I have to - WHERE THE FUCK DID LADY JENNIFER GO? She just disappeared! Did she leave, or did she just disappear randomly?
- O, Two. BB, you goin' get your ASS kicked around by everyone in that room!
- JAMIE SAVED HIM! Jamie saved him from being beaten to death by a mob! JAMIE! You are loyal to him, aren't you - WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING TO JAMIE GODDAMMIT?! ::grabs Two by the throat::
- O! O! ::lets go of Two's throat:: He & Jamie were faking! Jamie's still Jamie & Two - Two's not going to recondition anyone!
- O, THE WAR CHIEF JUST GOT BUSTED!
- 'Yes! I fix her - and you nearly fixed me!'
::giggles:: Aww, Two.
- Two doesn't want to rule a galaxy - he wants to see it! It's something someone like the Master & the War Chief wouldn't understand.
- Lots of shooty-shooty bang bang!
- Okay . . . seeing the War Chief look so . . . scared, for lack of a better word - it absolutely chills me.
- They - they killed the War Chief! But wait - if he's a Time Lord, why isn't he regenerating? Is he waiting? Or is he so dead that he can't regenerate.
- NO. PLEASE. THIS CAN'T BE GOODBYE. Doctor - please, not goodbye.
- O! Lady Jennifer's back in the 1917 zone? & Carstairs wants to find her! Aww.
- 'FOR ONCE, JAMIE, DO AS YOU'RE TOLD!'
Two . . . you just yelled at Jamie. You actually yelled at him. ::cowers in a corner::
- I - well, here's were we end with Carstairs. He was a very good fellow. & I wish him all the luck in the world to find Lady Jennifer. & I think he will.
The War Games - Episode Ten
- & it's Jamie McCrimmon who helps Two break the force field.While simultaneously grabbing his arse.
- The way Two explains his people . . . I can see why the Doctor left. I - I would too, I think. How terribly boring the Time Lords must be, if they do nothing but sit & observe all their lives.
- FUCK OFF - SUSAN BROKE ALL OF YOUR LAWS AS WELL! YOU HAVEN'T PULLED HER AWAY FROM DAVID TO RUIN HER LIFE & FORCE HER OWN REGENERATION!
- You FORCED him to! Damn the whole lot of you!
- Even to a Time Lord, Jamie is snappy & demands an answer. But not even Two dares to let him continue.
- What do you Time Lords care for human life? You only watch & observe, you do nothing to help - only the Doctor ever has. You lot would just watch the human race fall completely & not lift a finger.
- WAIT. The War Lord brought reinforcements? To GALLIFREY? Fucking hell. Desperation. The War Lord has it.
- Dematerialised? Like in the Zagreus audio? O, no.
- 'I not only admit them - I am proud of them!'
- Damn your laws. & your trials. If it hadn't been for the Doctor & Susan, & all who travelled with him, the universe would be a dead, lifeless place, with nothing for you to observe!
- At least ONE other Time Lord has two true hearts.
- To the end - it's Jamie & Zoe who won't let Two give up or lose all hope.
- 'I'll won't forget you, you know.'
'I won't forget you.'
- 'Will we ever meet again?'
'Again? Now, Zoe. You and I know that time is relative, isn't it?'
- & they're gone. With one final wave & holding hands . . . they're gone.
- Tanya!
- 'Are you sure you're all right?'
'Oh, yes. I thought I'd forgotten something important, but it's nothing.'
- JAMIE. I . . . he - he could die. He could die & the Time Lords don't even CARE, do they? No, of course they don't. Jamie's just a footnote mislaid. They just set him back down in 1745 where he could die any second. Humane? I'd hardly agree.
- But Two - you're proud of him, aren't you? You believe that he'll survive, don't you? And you're always right.
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It was a brilliant story. A splendid send-off for Two. Well written, even with the padded bits.
I would say more, but I think I'm a bit too tearful to actually type anything of coherence.
I . . . I just can't say anything. It was too much in the end.
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
The 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)
The Dominators
The Mind Robber
The Invasion
The Krotons
The Seeds of Death
The Space Pirates - audio & serial
At the start of the rewatch-athon, I wasn't sure how I would watch this story, since it's so huge. I finally decided to dedicate a full week to watching it, with my recap being posted early Saturday morning as usual, with each story having its own cut to make it easier for people to read.
& as I said last week, here's the layout for the final half of the great & mighty Troughton rewatch-athon. (folks, there was a reason it's called 'the great & mighty Troughton rewatch-athon' - it wouldn't have been if I was stopping here!)
Next week: Spearhead From Space, The Curse of Peladon & The Three Doctors. (the first two are sort of bonus stories; the first bridging the gap between Two & Three's eras, the second one starring Patrick's son David as King Peladon. & of course, The Three Doctors needs no explanation!)
Week after: The Five Doctors, The Two Doctors & Jamie's Companion Chronicle Helicon Prime.
Final week: Midnight & wrap-up party.
Note: I know most of you know that I've broken almost all ties with the new series (until Eleven arrives, anyway), but I'm including Midnight because it features David Troughton as one of the main characters - by including it, I'm coming full circle, as I see it. It's like this: if it hadn't been for the new series, I never would have came to the classic series & never would have found a) half of you lot & b) so many of my favourite serials & my three favourite Doctors. So, while I'd rather not sit through Midnight again, for David Troughton, I shall do it with pleasure.
The War Games - Episode One
- Hmm. This is a Terrance Dicks & Malcolm Hulke story. I quite like Terrance Dicks-written serials & I LOVED the Sea Devils, so the main story could be interesting, at least. Heh.
- LOLZ, JAMIE STEPS IN MUD AS SOON AS HE GETS OUT OF THE TARDIS & EVERYONE ELSE LAUGHS. ::gigglesnorts::
'What a place.'
- ZOE'S WEARING A MAC! WHAT? Zoe, no skirts?
- JAMIE, DON'T TOUCH THE BARBED WIRE. ::slaps::
- . . . World War I, isn't it? I & I only know this from some godawful horror movie I saw that was set very literally, in the trenches of World War I.
- WHOA, KILT BILLOWING UPWARDS!
- & Two pulls him out of the way! By the waist! ::hearts::
- I like Zoe's mac. It's cute & practical for where she is now.
- The major recognised Jamie as a Highlander - that's a first!
- Um. General Smythe . . . well, he looks to be using something that I wouldn't thought around during this war . . . hmm.
- Jamie, it isn't proper to get snappy with military men, you know. But I do like my Highlanders feisty & hot-blooded!
- Random fashion note: I'm liking Jamie's fab jacket! Goes well with his kilt, I think!
- 'Well there's no need to keep shouting at us, you know!'
ZOE! Reminds me of Victoria & her snappiness in The Enemy of the World a bit.
- I'm only twelve minutes in, & I'm already wondering how Jamie must feel, being in a place like this. When he met the Doctor, he himself was in the middle of a war - a very ugly, & ultimately, a very ugly defeat for his people during the eighteenth century. It - I just wonder if it brings back any memories for him.
- . . . Smythe just hypnotised someone, I think. Um. Creepy!
- HE'S DOING IT AGAIN WHAT THE HELL?
- Random fashion note two: Pat's got no sideburns! YAY! He looks prettier without them, I think.
- Well that was a positively shit trial. ::glares:: & knowing how this comes out in the end . . . Two just can't get a fair trial, cam he? & Jamie & Zoe can't get a fair sentence, can thet?
- Okay, Smythe keeps hypnotising people & it's creepy. Yeah, there is something very, VERY wrong here.
- WHAT NO, YOU'RE NOT EXECUTING TWO AT DAWN, SAVE FOR OVER JAMIE'S DEAD BODY!
- OMG, TWO KISSED ZOE ON THE HEAD! AWWW! ::wibbles & cries::
'Goodbye my dear.'
Two . . . please, not so early on in the serial. Please.
- Random fashion note: Zoe's outfit UNDER her mac is really cute too! (I always thought Wendy Padbury had been pregnant at the time of this serial, which is why she wore the mac, but nope, I don't see such!)
- Oooo, sneaky little miss Heriot - you found your way back to the Doctor! ::hugs her::
- BASTARDS! YOU CAN'T EXECUTE HIM, YOU CAN'T! He hasn't done anything!
- YOU SHOT HIM!
The War Games - Episode Two
- WAIT! THEY DIDN'T SHOOT HIM! ::collapses:: & Zoe's getting him away! Run, run!
- JAMIE! ::clings desperately::
- HOLY SHIT. HE'S IN A FUCKING CELL WITH A REDCOAT. A REDCOAT! Who thinks it's 1745 - Jamie's own time! WHAT?
- Ooo, Authoritative!Two - sexy!
- Jamie's got a stick!
- & ONE FUCKING SEXY & FIERCE FACE ON. O, BABY.
- MORE Authoritative!Two! UNF, PAT, WHY SO SEXY WHEN YOU'RE ALL SHOUTY?
- OMG, GET YOUR FILTHY REDCOAT HANDS OFF OF MY JAMIE! Wait - never mind, it was a fakeout! & LOLZ, I LOVE JAMIE - 'You fight pretty well - for a Redcoat!'
- Lady Jennifer appears to be getting her memory back . . . like the Redcoat.
(also, I like Lady Jennifer so far. She was kind to a rather upset Zoe, which was good.)
- YOU GET YOUR FUCKING HANDS OFF OF MY JAMIE YOU BASTARDS!
- O, guh, Two shouting & being all . . . commanding with Jamie. O my word.
- HA! Zoe Heriot, intergalactic supergirl, taking out officers with flower vases! ::grins:: O, Zoe. ♥
- Carstairs & Lady Jennifer seem to be onto something very important here . . . this is a good sign, I think.
- Ooo, Lady Jennifer's pretty good at distracting the general's assistant! ::smiles:: She's seeming pretty awesome herself!
- ::giggle:: Lady Jennifer's awesome. Yeah, I think we can say that for sure.
- O dear. Carstairs AND Lady Jennifer can't see the screen - wait, now they can!
- ::sighs:: Carstairs believes them! He's going to help Two, Jamie & Zoe escape!
- I feel rather bad for all the people Smythe keeps hypnotising, I really rather do.
- Wait . . . the white fog that Lady Jennifer, Carstairs & the Redcoat all mentioned . . . ::looks lost::
- WHAT THE FUCK ROMAN SOLDIERS?! WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK?!
- & I just noted - Derrick Sherwin's wife is playing Lady Jennifer!
The War Games - Episode Three
- Okay, so, Roman soldiers. Like I said . . . WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK? They were just on a World War I battlefield!
- Two thousand years ago? What . . . what?
- Ooo, Jamie's ready for a fight, isn't he? ::twirl::
- OMG. THIS IS THE SCENE WHERE TWO DOES THE THING WITH JAMIE'S SPORRAN . . . O MY.
- LOLZ, TUNING FORK REFERENCE! ::snorts::
- JESUS, TWO, DON'T PLAY WITH EXPLOSIVES LIKE THAT.
- HE'S GRABBING THE BITS OF JAMIE'S SPORRAN NOW. ::giggles::
- I also quite love Carstairs, have I not mentioned that? He's kind of badass.
- Aww, Jamie's making more of his epic faces!
- BOOM! Got the map!
- Wait, the whole map is divided by time zones? O, yes, yes I see! Then they must be all different wars in human history.
- & he's being John Smith again. O, Two. ♥
- EEK, REVOLVER ON TWO WHAT?!
- O my . . . they've been captured by Germans.
- TWO'S GOT HIS SONIC SCREWDRIVER OUT, MOTHERFUCKERS! ::WAVES POMPOMS:: HE'S EVEN AWED A GERMAN WITH IT! ::adds to list of the abilities of the sonic screwdriver::
- O, FUCKSOCKS. Looks like Smythe's not the only general who can hypnotise people under his command . . .
- WHAT IS WITH THE SHOOTING, JESUS. CAN'T ANYONE BE LOCKED UP AGAIN?
- O, maybe this one's not as good as it as Smythe is . . . he remembers the sonic screwdriver!
- O. MY. WORD. The War Chief has just made his first appearance . . . & dude, he's got a lot of bling around his neck. ::giggle::
- Uh-oh . . . the Civil War now?
- Carstairs calls Jamie by his first name. I like that, for some reason.
- HA! JAMIE McCRIMMON WILL KICK YOUR ASS IN ANY TIME PERIOD, ANY PLANET, ANY PLACE, BITCHES. ::loves on Jamie::
(kind of random, but when I wrote that, I thought of a line from one of my favourite Bikini Kill songs, Feels Blind, which I usually associate with Romana, or sometimes Sarah Jane - 'there are no boundaries to what I can be' - which is very true of Jamie - no matter where he is, or what's happening, he can't be stopped once he's set his mind to doing something.)
- They captured Carstairs?! O, BUGGER!!
- NO! THE . . . the thing is taking off with Two & Zoe INSIDE of it!
The War Games - Episode Four
- Jamie & Lady Jennifer have been caught by Confederate soldiers, I think & Two & Zoe are . . . well, they're inside a second TARDIS.
- Germans, Romans, Civil War soldiers . . . they're all in some kind of hypnotic trance? I . . . I . . . ai ya!
- O, wait, they're not Confederates, they're Northern soldiers. & ahem, sirs, Jamie is Scottish - not English. British would be more apt, if you insist on being pedantic. But he's not English!
- Well, the Southern soldiers are a bit politer - up until they were re-hypnotised! ::glare::
- ::giggle:: That eyewear is LOLZ. Seriously!
- Random fashion note three: Jamie's SIDEBURNS! They're bordering on QUITE wild now!
- So there's a resistance forming among all the factions of the different wars? Hmm! This could be useful . . .
- OMFG JAMIE ON A HORSE! ::squees:: & he can ride! O, Jamie. ::draws hearts again::
- O, no - Carstairs! But he recognises Two & Zoe!
- O my . . . this . . . reconditioning scene I think just disturbed me more than both Serenity & The Enemy of the World combined.
- O, Jamie McCrimmon, you're practically a knight in shining armour! ::swoons:: Or, well, you would have been, if you hadn't been caught, yes?
- For some reason, Lady Jennifer reminds me a little of Barbara Wright. It's hard to say why, but she does a bit.
- Random fashion note four: Jamie has a nice backside, even under that kilt. ::eyes::
- When Two saw the War Chief . . . he freaked the fuck out! I mean, he really freaked out there!
- No, you can't shoot Zoe! Not Zoe, please! ::wibbles::
The War Games - Episode Five
- I'd offer Zoe the suggestion of breaking his wrist, or worse, but I like Carstairs & if he shook it off once, he'll shake it again!
- O! There's a Highlander soldier among the resistance fighters! I saw his sporran & kilt.
- WHOA, POP-ART WALLS OF AWESOME! But ooo, a little dizzying in a spiral style like that.
- What . . . what are they doing to poor Zoe? I can't quite figure it out.
- Lady Jennifer seems to have grasped the idea of such advanced technology & concepts very well, I must say. Maybe that's why she reminds me of Barbara.
- Hooray for Zoe's total recall memory!
- Hee - Two has a bit of hat hair after he takes off that helmet thing!
- Zoe's photographic memory FTW!
- O HAY IT'S THE SPIRAL THING FROM The Mind Robber!
- Hmm . . . the War Chief looks like he wears eyeliner. No, I'm serious, he DOES.
- I LOVE LADY JENNIFER. ENOUGH SAID. & she totally called Jamie out on his 'you're just a woman' shtick! ::grins:: I love Jamie, but I love it even more when he gets called out on his 'you're just a woman' bullshit. Pleases the riot grrrl in me.
- The truth machine? What a clunky name! Sounds more like a fancified mind probe to me! & that wouldn't be too much of a surprise, considering that this is a Terrance Dicks-half-helmed story . . .
- JAMIE! ::screams louder than Mel ever would have:: YOU KILLED HIM! BASTARDS!
The War Games - Episode Six
- O, I see how the TARDIS-like box opens - it slides its opening out, not down, like I thought it did.
- NO, NO, DON'T LEAVE JAMIE, PLEASE! ::cries:: PLEASE!
- . . . we have just had our first mention of the Time Lords. In relation to the War Chief.
- Hee, Zoe taped Two's finger to the metal & plastic thingy. ::giggle::
- O, Jamie's alive! & . . . he's very beautiful unconscious. Very beautiful. & even when he's being carried by two fellows in funny clothes.
- THE RETURN OF LIEUTENANT CARSTAIRS, THE MOST BADASS THING TO EVER FLY OUT OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR!
- OMFG IT'S DAVID TROUGHTON!! DAVID! ::swoons:: He has a lovely voice, you know. & very pretty hair. & sigh, he does look quite a bit like his father.
- JAMIE! JAMIE! ::holds onto him:: Let him go, please!
- I.L.Y. CARSTAIRS.
- Random fashion note five: I like the hole in Two's trousers.
- No, no, David, don't give him his monocle - shit, he did! & I think he's been hypnotised . . . again. Dammit. ::sighs::
- The War Chief, I have to say, is pretty good at what he does
- UNF, PAT'S FOREHEAD. THAT was pretty & unexpected! ::giggles::
- LOLZ, ZOE IN A WORLD WAR I UNIFORM . . . o how cute!
- ::hearts Carstairs even more:: & Jamie's staying with Two, despite what He's just been put through. There are no boundaries to what he can be, or his bravery.
- FUCK YOU FOR HYPNOTISING THE PRETTY & ADORABLE DAVID TROUGHTON! ::kicks::
- O, come on - remember! ::shakeshake::
- Ooo - can I be extra-shallow & say that David sure is cute in a fistfight? & with his hair all mussed?
- Random fashion note number six, cross-reference with David Troughton fangirling: David clearly inherited his father's floppy hair - & he wears it just as well!
- TWO & COMPANY ARE IN GAS MASKS!
- Random fashion note seven: Jamie, with his floppy hair, wears that uniform hat very well! Not sure on the coat, but the hat, yes!
The War Games - Episode Seven
- Two waves the white flag of surrender - or truce, as he says.
- HA! IN YOUR FACES, ASSHATS! TWO >>>>>> ALL YOU ALL! ::waves pompoms::
- So they're now in the Roman zone - this is SO weird . . .
- O LOOK. ROMANS.
- Now they appear to be back in the World War I zone . . . WHAT NEXT TO A MACHINE GUN?!
- Unexpected!Revolutionary!War!Soldier taking out a World War I soldier . . . awesome!
- CARSTAIRS, WHY SO FUCKING AWESOME? ::tacklehugs::
- HAHA, BITCHES CAN'T KILL TWO IF THEY WANT THEIR MIND PROBE BACK!
- What are you, a record player? HE'S NOT SENDING HELP, TWIT.
- Good thinking, Zoe-girl. ♥
- TWO > THE UNIVERSE. THAT IS ALL. In the zombie apocalypse, I claim Two for my team, got it?
- Ooo, Carstairs can speak French! Quite a learned man. ::sparkles::
- FUCKERS, LET GO OF MY DOCTOR! ::pounces like Leela::
The War Games - Episode Eight
- You know, if Leela were with Two & the rest of the resistance, there would be many dead guards around. Just a thought.
- Okay, we have a renegade Time Lord, possibly two playing this game & men who seem like unconverted Cybermen with all their talk of logic & such. Um . . .
- Screw. You. Two's held out against worse sorts of torture. He can hold out against yours.
- Carstairs is win. I love him. ::draws big hearts::
- Wow . . . Jamie's in charge of action of the château - Jamie . . . I'm really proud of you. ::hugs him::
- Now the War Chief & the Doctor . . . they're talking again. As friends. Or rather, enemies who knew each other as friends once.
- The War Chief seems to know jack shit about who the real vicious races in the galaxy are - Daleks. Cybermen. Sontarans. They would have faired better in this game than humans.
- 'Seems to have rather privative ideas about women knowing their place.'
'Has he now? Sounds like a nice chap!'
::pokes Jamie for that & hugs Zoe::
- Well, hello there, Jamie! Look at you all kitted out like a twentieth century soldier!
- The Doctor & the War Chief - they aren't, I suppose, but they are very much like the Doctor & the Master.
- Speaking of which, I'm now nearly done with the story, & I still haven't formed an opinion as to if the War Chief is an early version of the Master. I . . . I just don't know. The Master & the Doctor, as we all know, aren't the only renegade Time Lords to have ever existed - there's the Rani, the Meddling Monk, Iris Wildthyme & most likely more - who says that that there aren't more renegades like the Master out there? He doesn't have the Gallifreyan monopoly on evil, I think - so who's to say that he has to be the Master?
In a more meta-type of comment, I wouldn't discount the War Chief as being a possible or even direct inspiration for the Master, much like I don't discount the Robomen of The Dalek Invasion of Earth as being a possible source of inspiration for the Cybermen later on. So right now - I don't think the War Chief & the Master are one in the same, but more that one inspired the other, in certain ways.
- Two . . . you DIDN'T. No. You FUCKING DIDN'T. Please, tell me you didn't just sell your own friends out to save your own life . . . you wouldn't do that. Would you?
The War Games - Episode Nine
- Two . . . you - NO. I WON'T BELIEVE IT. I FUCKING WON'T UNTIL HE ADMITS IT OF HIS OWN FREE WILL.
- . . . he's kind of grabbing on Two now.
- Jamie's being like me - he won't believe Two would betray him & the others. & I have a feeling that, like me, Jamie wouldn't believe otherwise until Two said it himself.
- I love Two's cockiness. It's terribly sexy on him.
- Alright, I haven't said it yet, but we're on the next to last episode & I have to - WHERE THE FUCK DID LADY JENNIFER GO? She just disappeared! Did she leave, or did she just disappear randomly?
- O, Two. BB, you goin' get your ASS kicked around by everyone in that room!
- JAMIE SAVED HIM! Jamie saved him from being beaten to death by a mob! JAMIE! You are loyal to him, aren't you - WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING TO JAMIE GODDAMMIT?! ::grabs Two by the throat::
- O! O! ::lets go of Two's throat:: He & Jamie were faking! Jamie's still Jamie & Two - Two's not going to recondition anyone!
- O, THE WAR CHIEF JUST GOT BUSTED!
- 'Yes! I fix her - and you nearly fixed me!'
::giggles:: Aww, Two.
- Two doesn't want to rule a galaxy - he wants to see it! It's something someone like the Master & the War Chief wouldn't understand.
- Lots of shooty-shooty bang bang!
- Okay . . . seeing the War Chief look so . . . scared, for lack of a better word - it absolutely chills me.
- They - they killed the War Chief! But wait - if he's a Time Lord, why isn't he regenerating? Is he waiting? Or is he so dead that he can't regenerate.
- NO. PLEASE. THIS CAN'T BE GOODBYE. Doctor - please, not goodbye.
- O! Lady Jennifer's back in the 1917 zone? & Carstairs wants to find her! Aww.
- 'FOR ONCE, JAMIE, DO AS YOU'RE TOLD!'
Two . . . you just yelled at Jamie. You actually yelled at him. ::cowers in a corner::
- I - well, here's were we end with Carstairs. He was a very good fellow. & I wish him all the luck in the world to find Lady Jennifer. & I think he will.
The War Games - Episode Ten
- & it's Jamie McCrimmon who helps Two break the force field.
- The way Two explains his people . . . I can see why the Doctor left. I - I would too, I think. How terribly boring the Time Lords must be, if they do nothing but sit & observe all their lives.
- FUCK OFF - SUSAN BROKE ALL OF YOUR LAWS AS WELL! YOU HAVEN'T PULLED HER AWAY FROM DAVID TO RUIN HER LIFE & FORCE HER OWN REGENERATION!
- You FORCED him to! Damn the whole lot of you!
- Even to a Time Lord, Jamie is snappy & demands an answer. But not even Two dares to let him continue.
- What do you Time Lords care for human life? You only watch & observe, you do nothing to help - only the Doctor ever has. You lot would just watch the human race fall completely & not lift a finger.
- WAIT. The War Lord brought reinforcements? To GALLIFREY? Fucking hell. Desperation. The War Lord has it.
- Dematerialised? Like in the Zagreus audio? O, no.
- 'I not only admit them - I am proud of them!'
- Damn your laws. & your trials. If it hadn't been for the Doctor & Susan, & all who travelled with him, the universe would be a dead, lifeless place, with nothing for you to observe!
- At least ONE other Time Lord has two true hearts.
- To the end - it's Jamie & Zoe who won't let Two give up or lose all hope.
- 'I'll won't forget you, you know.'
'I won't forget you.'
- 'Will we ever meet again?'
'Again? Now, Zoe. You and I know that time is relative, isn't it?'
- & they're gone. With one final wave & holding hands . . . they're gone.
- Tanya!
- 'Are you sure you're all right?'
'Oh, yes. I thought I'd forgotten something important, but it's nothing.'
- JAMIE. I . . . he - he could die. He could die & the Time Lords don't even CARE, do they? No, of course they don't. Jamie's just a footnote mislaid. They just set him back down in 1745 where he could die any second. Humane? I'd hardly agree.
- But Two - you're proud of him, aren't you? You believe that he'll survive, don't you? And you're always right.
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It was a brilliant story. A splendid send-off for Two. Well written, even with the padded bits.
I would say more, but I think I'm a bit too tearful to actually type anything of coherence.
I . . . I just can't say anything. It was too much in the end.
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
The 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)
The Dominators
The Mind Robber
The Invasion
The Krotons
The Seeds of Death
The Space Pirates - audio & serial
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Date: 2009-08-27 08:43 am (UTC)But Fourteen doesn't have a recorder. She plays a... erm, go read my fics. :P
. . . SHE WON'T DEFEND ME!? ::gasps::
You're trying to mess with her boy's brain - which is her job. Do you really think she'll defend you? :P
Awww. :( Well, maybe things will happen differently this time! :D
Let's wait and see...
::gigglesnorts:: They miiiight . . .
I don't doubt that for a second. :P
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Date: 2009-08-28 08:32 am (UTC). . . okay, then it's a requirement of playing SOME KIND of musical instrument & having a blue police box. :P SEE? & I STILL HAVE NEITHER.
You're trying to mess with her boy's brain - which is her job. Do you really think she'll defend you? :P
::looks shocked:: SHE'S MEAN! ::bites her for that::
Let's wait and see...
::eats jellybabies while waiting::
I don't doubt that for a second. :P
HEE! Aww, they're just too cute, aren't they? ^___^
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Date: 2009-08-28 08:54 am (UTC)But Six doesn't play a musical instrument. *is stubborn*
::looks shocked:: SHE'S MEAN! ::bites her for that::
OI. Don't bite Fourteen, or Jamie will be crossed with you.
HEE! Aww, they're just too cute, aren't they? ^___^
Yes, very much so. :D
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Date: 2009-08-28 11:55 am (UTC)WELL . . . ::looks a bit pouty:: Well, then, how much Scottish blood's got to be in a girl's veins to get into his kilt then?! THERE! TOPPED EVERYTHING ELSE!
OI. Don't bite Fourteen, or Jamie will be crossed with you.
Can I bite Jamie then? Pleeeeease? ::puppyface::
Yes, very much so. :D
::pets them:: & so wonderfully married, I can now say. ^__^
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Date: 2009-08-28 12:11 pm (UTC)Apparently none - neither the Doctor nor Victoria have Scottish blood, as far as I know.
But then again, the Doctor was in a short of Scottish phase after his sixth regeneration...
Can I bite Jamie then? Pleeeeease? ::puppyface::
Then Fourteen will be crossed with you.
::pets them:: & so wonderfully married, I can now say. ^__^
Ah. So you agree with Hawkeye, then? :P
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Date: 2009-08-28 01:16 pm (UTC)But then again, the Doctor was in a short of Scottish phase after his sixth regeneration...
I JUST CAN'T WIN, CAN I? ::cries very hard::
Then Fourteen will be crossed with you.
Doesn't Fourteen EVER share?! I shared Fitz with her when she was Eight! Or was it the other way around - or was it the other way in the middle . . . hmm. Can't really remember actually . . . ::drifts off into babble::
Ah. So you agree with Hawkeye, then? :P
Well . . . I rather have to, don't I? :P IT BE TRUE!
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Date: 2009-08-28 01:48 pm (UTC)I could have suggested miniskirts, but Fourteen has one. *pets you* I'm sorry.
Doesn't Fourteen EVER share?! I shared Fitz with her when she was Eight! Or was it the other way around - or was it the other way in the middle . . . hmm. Can't really remember actually . . . ::drifts off into babble::
You'll have to ask. Nicely. Biting doesn't apply.
Well . . . I rather have to, don't I? :P IT BE TRUE!
Well, you and Hawkeye can have a bonding moment over it, then. :P
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Date: 2009-08-29 11:46 am (UTC)Well . . . what about minidresses? Quite short, very sparkly, rather well-fitted minidresses? LOOPHOLE!
You'll have to ask. Nicely. Biting doesn't apply.
Hmm. Well . . . ::knocks on Fourteen's door:: Doctor? Um, Doctor, are you in? I'd like to ask you something.
Well, you and Hawkeye can have a bonding moment over it, then. :P
Provided he buys me a pretty drink, I'm all for a bonding moment! ::beams::
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Date: 2009-08-29 11:59 am (UTC)Didn't Zoe have those? Or Victoria? :P
Hmm. Well . . . ::knocks on Fourteen's door:: Doctor? Um, Doctor, are you in? I'd like to ask you something.
Fourteen: Yes?
Provided he buys me a pretty drink, I'm all for a bonding moment! ::beams::
How about some gin from the Swamp's still?