As a countdown to the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who I and my wife will be watching an episode a day until we are caught up to whatever the Beeb has planned. This is a record of my initial reaction to each day's episode published with minimal editing and crappy synopsis.
"I keep a journal."
We listened to this one on the drive down to my father-in-law's place for my oldest nephew's birthday party. My nephew turned 11. For his 7th birthday we gave him his first Doctor Who DVD; today he knows his Doctors better than his father can.
This was an improvement over the last episode.
The Doctor isn't very active in this which leads me to wonder if Hartnell was given the week off. The filming schedule was grueling back then and the cast members were written out of the occasional episode to give them a break.
Tegana doesn't seem to be going down the cliched villain trail that he flirted with last episode. He's still doing dirty deeds, but the "evil spirit" crap has been dropped. He's still a dick and there's still a chance that he'll ease on down the crappy villain road, but for now he's not chewing the scenery (that we can't see.)
Pin-Cho's accent seems to be a bit inconsistent at times, but it's hard to tell. She's been paired with Susan and the two actresses have similar voices.
There is a wonderfully chaotic scene where everything is going on. The sandstorm is raging, the sands sing, Susan and Ping-Cho are trapped in the storm, Barbara is desperate to get to the girls ASAP, Polo has raised his voice against that. The scene is resolved by Tegana saving the girls.
Since Tegana's plan is to kill everyone else in this caravan including Susan and Ping-Cho I'm guessing that this is part of a masterplan to throw suspicion off of him after he sabotages the water skins.
Next Up: Five Hundred Eyes
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