I AM Back!

Holy crap! Sorry, my old computer died on me and I forgot my password. But finally it worked and I am back! Yay!

Will likely get back to doing this tomorrow, because I miss it.

The Mind Robber - Episode Three

Written by - Peter Ling Director - David Maloney Producer - Peter Bryant

Episode Three

("This world that we've stumbled into is a world of Fiction!" - The Doctor to Zoe about where they are.)

Likes

- That this place is basically run on belief.  Dangers are real as long as you believe in them.  Stop and they are cardboard cut-out pictures that can't do more than give you one hell of a paper cut XD Or they just disappear into nothing.

- The Doctor saying that the Master of the place has a fantastic mind. 

- Jamie, with the knife, hacking his way through cobwebs.  Ah, Jamie, never stop being you.

- I just love the whole Jamie face swapping thing.  It's so ridiculous and anywhere else it wouldn't work but here it just fits right in.  I also love Zoe furiously shaking her head no when the Doctor goes to put on the wrong eyes again and smiling widely at the right mouth.  It's like sorry Doctor, you be face blind, let the one who has known him a hot minute but memorises everything do it rather than you, who has known him a while now.

- lol, everyone's slightly delayed reaction jump scare to the door closing behind them when they enter the house, when the door was anything but quiet. 

- The Master wanting the Doctor to find his way through all of the traps, because intellectuals.  He's just sitting there, watching and cheering him on XD

- Jamie and doing smart things.  I love him when he does smart things. 

- Can we just appreciate Jamie rock climbing to get out of trouble?  Look at him go.  I'm so proud of him and all his solutions to problems he runs into this episode.

- The entire conversation between Jamie and Rapunzel. 

- The Doctor and Zoe's adventure being a WIP that Jamie is reading.  That's just the best damn thing.

Dislikes

- Wait...what happened to the Redcoat chap standing in front of the door?  There to get Jamie all up in a huff and attack and gone the moment he is frozen and has to have is face replaced again.  Just...what?

- Umm, why is Zoe all ew spider web at touching the webs around the candles, when she was basically walking through a forest caked in web two seconds beforehand with not one single uttered complaint about it?  Then, not another complaint again. 

- Uh, Doctor, Jamie is missing.  You want to go find him now?  Fanboy over meeting Gulliver later.

Awesome

- I actually really like the cave set in this one with all the candles around.  This one was a hit for me. 

- Yes, Doctor Who, give us some claymation with Medusa's up close snake hair.

Shitty

- WTF is on the Master's head?  It looks like it should have a mini propeller on it in some scenes XD

- Oh geeze, that backdrop of Rapunzel's tower when Jamie first starts going up her hair.  That one doesn't work for me.  If the hair hadn't been just...there on it, and instead the window was an actual window and not a painting of a window, sure, but nope. 

- Medusa's outfit.  Just...what is that? 

In Conclusion

Yes.  I love this story.  The Doctor has figured out that they are in a land of Fiction and that if they don't believe in things then they don't exist. 

Zoe is always believing in things that don't exist because they are standing right in front of her, even when the Doctor is yelling at her to say they don't exist to get them to go away.  I love that her logical mind can't figure out that because she can see and touch it, it doesn't exist, even though she intellectually knows it.  She's having so much trouble here.

And all my love to Jamie just doing his own thing and getting places by just being him.  You go, my lad, you go.

Body count - 0.

Am going to be updating this soon.

I was going to do it last week, but ran headfirst into a hyperfixation with Encanto's Bruno. I would apologise, but I'm not going to. I love me a neurodivergent rat dad.

Sorry.

It has Been A Week, this week. With any luck this will be updated today or tomorrow. If not it will be Monday next week and hopefully, unless there are any more emergencies on my end, it will be updated semi regularly.

Back Soon!

And by soon, I mean Monday, yay. Let's get this done.

Yeees.

Two patterns done, 1 more to start.

Forgot to put this here, lol.

It's May. So instead of doing this, I am doing cross stitching. Finished one pattern, started on another I should get done and then one more start and when May is over I will be back to this.

Forgot about this first week, but I did a bit of my phoenix cross stitch from my rotation.

The Mind Robber - Episode Two

Written by - Peter Ling Director - David Maloney Producer - Peter Bryant

Episode Two

("Where in Time and Space am I?" - The Doctor to himself after waking up.)

Likes

- I love Jamie running in to save himself by basically running wildly at his gunned opponent with a knife in hand and screaming out his battle cry.  It's his way and it's wild and dangerous, but boy is he going to do it until it kills him!  Jamie, one who never stops being a product of his time. 

- The Master having two different voices he is using.  One for when he talks to himself which must be his true voice, and the one he uses which eerily reminds me of Lumic in the Cyberman two partner in series two with Ten and Rose.  He uses that voice to order around the robots.

- People showing up, threatening or helping, only to disappear again once out of sight.  I love this.  It's so weird and mysterious.  And we finally have had The Master actually named The Master. 

- This is the most confused the Doctor has been and I am living for it.  Look at him and his utterly bamboozled looking face at children riddling him almost to death and dropping a dictionary into his hands from nowhere.  Hahahah!

-Forest of Words. 'Nuff said.

- The Doctor refusing to let Jamie know why he has a different face.  So much so he tells Zoe he'll tell her later what happened XD

- And it ends on them all being ready to be skewered by a Unicorn.  Nice :D

Dislikes

- Why did the Doctor and Jamie laugh at Zoe being trapped in a jar?  I get laughing at solving the riddle, but damn, you want to get her out before you start laughing at the situation? 

Awesome

- The set.  The set.  The set.  Just...letters forming words, forming sentences, forming sayings.  And how they set up everything to be recognisable, but at the same time easily could be something else. 

- What they did to get a stand in for Jamie for the week when Frazer got sick.  It fits into the story perfectly and is a total study in face blindness XD  As an Autistic who headcanons the Doctor as Autistic, this made my day when I first saw it.  

- I really like it when they get animals on set, because I love animals.  Nice horse for the unicorn there :D 

Shitty

- I have never met a more noisy door in my life.  Part of it is probably sound effects, if not all of it, but damn.  That would drive me insane XD

- One of the close ups on the horse's face, it looks frightened, boo.  Treat your animal actors better, Doctor Who.

In Conclusion

They are in a forest made up entirely of words.  I mean, come on, that right there is awesome.  That got me so good.  I love reading and words and so this story, with its weirdness and words was right up my alley.  Seriously, it's so clever what they do with this too.

This entire episode, they're stuck in a forest of words.  And I love the entire concept of it.

Body count - 0.

The Mind Robber - Episode One

Written by - Peter Ling Director - David Maloney Producer - Peter Bryant

Episode One

("It moves the TARDIS out of the space time dimension.  Out of reality!" - The Doctor to Jamie and Zoe about using the emergency unit.)

Likes

- I love how utterly geeky Zoe and the Doctor are being.  Jamie's like "We're gonna die!  Move us, Doctor!" And the Doctor and Zoe are like "Have you ever seen anything so beautiful as a rolling red river of death coming straight for us?  Wonderful!  Fantastic!"  Jamie is just so done with these idiot geniuses XD

- Oh my god, Jamie's "Reality's getting too hot anyway" to the Doctor saying using the emergency unit will take them out of space time. 

- The look Zoe gives the Doctor when he orders her to stay in the TARDIS.  Like hell she's going to follow that order, Doctor XD

- The Doctor fighting someone trying to get into, or is in, his mind.  I always like the little scenes with the Doctor where you know they have got telepathic ability. 

- I like that it is shown that while the audience can see these robot things, Jamie and Zoe can't, even though they are surrounded and definitely being watched.  I do like that they are both freaked out by it. 

- Boom, suddenly visible robot things.  Nice.  And they have the power to give you headaches by using the power of circles. 

- The Doctor losing his fight with his battle and stepping outside even though he didn't want to.

- The introduction of The Master...or IS IT?!  Dun Dun Duuuuun.

Dislikes

- As much as I understand it, Zoe running off and outside without actually seeing her home city when the doors are opened, and by now she should know she would if that is what was outside.  So impatient she ran outside without using her logic, which is her strong trait.  Well, all companions have to make at least one reckless and stupid decision at one point.  Here is Zoe's first.  An explanation comes up later but honestly Zoe didn't need to be nudged out, she would have left out of plain curiosity regardless.

- When did Zoe become such a screamer?  I don't remember this about her character at all.  Victoria is supposed to be the screamer, not Zoe. 

Awesome

- Gotta be put in here somewhere.  It's like a requirement.  Zoe's outfit. 

- The whole Jamie's face over Scotland scenery with bagpipes playing scene belongs here.  Such a nice Jamie scene, him getting to see home again.  But it's the actual way they shot it that makes it special.

- Yes, I love model cities in early Doctor Who.  The model team for Doctor Who are so creative when it comes to cities and sometimes spaceships.

- I like how they use just endless white to depict nothingness.  Usually it is endless black, but nope, Doctor Who goes the opposite route to begin with.

Shitty

- This one could be my imagination, or something I heard outside the actual show, but I swear I heard a door being opened or closed halfway through the Zoe seeing her home and Jamie telling her she isn't scene while they are outside.  Am I imagining things or is it really there? 

In Conclusion

I haven't watched this one in so long I have forgotten how much I enjoy it when I do watch it.  This is one of my ultimate faves, people.  I love The Mind Robber.

This first episode introduces us to Unreality.  A place outside the time space dimension, where nothingness is inhabited by a mystery voice and robots.  Yes.

No, seriously, nothing much happens in this episode, but what does happen is interesting and grabs you.  How can Unreality be inhabited? Who is this mystery The Master whose voice is all we hear in this first episode?  Can anything truly stop Zoe when she is interested in it, compulsion or no?  Why is Jamie dreaming of being skewered by a unicorn?  Was it planted, or just something that jumped into his mind naturally?

On the non companion side, we have the Doctor fighting with the voice and losing the battle, but then using his own mind and voice to get Jamie and Zoe back to what he thinks is the safety of the TARDIS.  Until, of course, she blows up.

Now, that is an ending. 

Body count - 0. 

Yeah, I have no good excuse this time. I found The Magnus Archives and have been bingeing that. I was going to start this on Monday and forgot and couldn't do anything last night, so with any luck starting The Mind Robber tonight!

The Dominators - Episode Five

Written by - Norman Ashby Director - Morris Barry Producer - Peter Bryant

Episode Five

("The Dulcians are unsuitable for slave labour.  They will die with their planet!" - Roga to Toba about the fate of the Dulcians and Dulkis.)

Likes

- I like the duo of Jamie and Cully just escaping the hell out of Quarks and surviving with each other.  And they constantly are looking up each other's dress/kilt. 

- Oh my god, Toba XD  Why do I find this guy so hilarious?

- We finally learn the plan for the world and what the drilling is for.  Finally.

- I love that it is Jamie who comes up with the logical, good plan in this. 

- Ah, the first time the sonic screwdriver is used as something other than a screwdriver.  Yes, hello OP tool, you came in way early, didn't you?

- Jamie just blowing the ever loving Hell out of Quarks.  My boy!  Look at him go!

- I love how the women also move debris and help dig the hole and not just sit around to look pretty. Look at them being equally dirty and covered in filth.

- Hey, a reason given for bad aim in this, hahaha. 

- I like that the end credits is lava flows.  Nice.

Dislikes

- Look, Rago, dude, we know you're drilling and we know you haven't started the last one and we know Toba believes he's superior and keeps using Quarks to do his dirty work for him, but maybe DON'T say that the power is running low on the Quarks if you don't want others to hear.  Seriously.  Why is this always happening?

- Wait, that tiny kit with that one block of food was supposed to last years?  Jamie just took months worth of food in one bite in that case, lol.

- The Doctor testing a homemade bomb in their tiny little...bomb shelter.  Yeah. 

Awesome

- Never really put this, but may I just say a planet where all the guys also wear dresses? 

- I love how utterly simple the look of the sonic screwdriver is this early.  No need to be fancy with the all in one OP tool. 

- I like when Jamie and Cully are on the cliff near the end and the camera zooms out and you see the scenery.  Nice.  Gives scope and more of a look at the island they are on.

- Look at the legs on that space ship just moving into their struts.  Nice.

Shitty

- Ah, dead people still breathing is a classic.

- Those shoulder guards.  Thank god this is the last time I have to say this for this one. 

In Conclusion

Okay, now this episode I liked.  Explosions, action, everyone doing their parts, Rago finally living up to the name Dominator, Toba finally learning to take directions. 

It's just a shame that it took until the end of the fourth episode for it to become fun.  But this episode was all the way through.

Body count - 5.  3 Quarks.  Blown up by Jamie.  Two Dominators, killed by the Doctor blowing them up.  More Quarks died, obviously, but these were the ones i caught on my DVD, which unfortunately was scratched at the end on the last episode and so I may have missed some on screen Quark deaths during the few seconds I missed, which was between the Doctor giving instructions and the Dominators taking off. I only counted the ones that died on screen.

The Dominators as a Whole

For the most part, this one is boring.  The Dulcians are passive in a way that gets infuriating most of the time, with a few exceptions.  Cully is great, which is good, because he is the Dulcian we mainly follow around. 

But mostly, they just bring the whole thing down and episodes that focus on them as a people are just pain boring. 

The end of the last episode things pick up though, so if you want to watch any of this and still pick up on the actual story, which is mainly in the last episode, just watch episode 5.

Apart from the last episode though, I'd say give this one a miss if you're looking for fun.

Forgot Legend of the Sea Devils was on last night so watched that instead XD Will finish Dominators tonight!

Uggh, sorry. Sinus bad. Lost a lot of my hearing in one ear, but that's getting better now, thankfully. With any luck, I will be at this again starting today!

Surgery Done

Everything went well, will be back to this either tomorrow or Friday.

Unexpected Hiatus

Yeah, I know I came back for one episode and disappeared again. Break should be over by halfway through next week. I have to go into hospital to have a day surgery thing done and I have been worrying about that instead of actually doing this. And stitching to relax. So, yeah.

I have health problems right now, 3 I have found. On the plus side, none of them affect my heart.

The Dominators - Episode Four

Written by - Norman Ashby Director - Morris Barry Producer - Peter Bryant

Episode Four

("Tell me where the boy is or die!" - Toba to basically everyone over trying to find Jamie because he apparently destroyed another Quark.)

Likes

- Hahaha, yes, I am living for Dominator vs Dominator here. Toba, dude, you weren't supposed to attack and you know it. I love how he gets reprimanded so damn hard at the beginning for going against orders and wasting Quark power levels.

- Cully knowing that they're in a testing site for weapons and getting him and Jamie into the safety of the bomb shelter, before they were blown up. Nice.

- Going to put it here, you damn well bet I am. Cully looking up Jamie's kilt. Oh yeah. That's a thing that happened XD

- Jamie's answer to stopping the Quarks. Be as annoying as possible. Yes, Jamie. I love you.

- The Doctor half-assing his way through where the shuttle is and that its wrecked.

Dislikes

- I don't like that the Dominator in charge (I think his name is Ruga...?) stopped his punishment of Toba when he did. It felt far too early for a supposed ruthless man. You're just proving Toba right. You are showing weakness and softness. No. You should have had him locked up or imprisoned on the wall before getting him to submit.

- Ah yes, get the old man alone and get him to do a different kind of heavy lifting. Makes...complete sense of the non kind.

- Zoe showing off her smarts...only to still be useless in what they were looking for. On the plus side, so was the Doctor, so hey. Plus there. Neither of the two smart people could figure it out because they were thinking too advanced XD

- It feels like the Dulcians just want to all die.

Awesome

- Going to put the inside of the Dominator ship here for this one, because we saw a bit more of it here and it looks great.

- I like the drill prop. It lights up and everything :D

- Those tiny, tiny wrench claws for the drilling the Quarks have. I found them to be cute and I have no idea why.

Shitty

- Yep, yet again here it is. Dominator shoulder guards. Just...just no. You all know how much I hate them by now.

In Conclusion

Okay, this one picked up the pace a bit, had minimal Dulcian meetings in it and things seem to be more actiony now, thank god.

A lot less boring than the rest of it and hopefully it stays picked up, though I do still expect it to fizzle out at the end. Because Dulcians. Why are they so boring? Thankfully, this episode wasn't. This was run of the mill Doctor Who.

One episode to go and on to better things.

And this just reminds me I am getting closer and closer to The Space Pirates and I remember not liking that one too, and the majority of it is missing :(

Body count - 3. A random Dulcian got murdered by the Dominator leader for not knowing when to shut his mouth, which does NOT surprise me one bit... Another Quark bites the dust. Cully pushed a big rock on top of it. And Balan got killed for being there and not talking, which figures, because Toba just likes killing things.

Hahaha, well, that didn't happen... Stormed all damn day and night.

The weather right now in Australia along the East Coast folks. It's severe weather warnings all the way down and they just won't quit. On the plus side, right now it's a bit of rain with gale force winds...

Wit any luck I will actually be able to post tonight.