Dimensions in Time
Dimensions in Time
HEY KIDS! GUESS WHAT TIME IT IS? IT'S TELEVISED CRACK-FIC TIME! AND YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?
THAAAAAT'S RIIIIIIGHT! IT'S "DIMENSIONS IN TIME"!
And what do we begin with? Floating Hartnell and Troughton heads! And the Rani! And some other guy! ...What.
Okay, this was WRITTEN by John Nathan-Turner? Also, I actually like this version of the theme song.
OH MY GOD FOUR WHERE DID ABOUT 85% OF YOUR HAIR GO
"She hates me. She EVEN HATES CHILDREN!" Give me a second to stop laughing. Also, random floating morphing blobs do not need to exist.
Seven! Ace! Hello again! I thought I just saw you off on your final televised adventure last night!
"Hey, you're not the Doctor!"
"Yes I am, Ace! We seem to have slipped a grove in time."
WOAH HELLO COMPLETELY-RANDOM-SIX.
THREE! And who's that with you?
It kinda looks like Mel, but with much tamer hair, but what would she be doing with Three? It doesn't look like Liz, Jo, or Sarah Jane...
"But, who are you?"
"Precisely. I am the Doctor."
"Oh, no you're not! You're nothing like my grandfather!"
OH MY GOD HELLO SUSAN!
Sarah Jane! There you are! And you look fourteen again! Why do you keep wearing outfits like that? At least you've found Three...
Well if you're in a "20 year time loop," then where's 2003? Also, last time I checked, 1973-2013 was 40 years.
FIVEY! AND...crap, I can't identify your companions through the smoke...is that Nyssa and Tegan?
No. Actually, that's really not Nyssa and Tegan. More EastEnders characters?
CYBERMAN. AND SOME OTHER STUFF.
There's a Sea Devil, a Time Lord with a gun for some reason, that snail thing from Frontios, some more other stuff...
PETER DAVISON DIGIVOLVES TO...JON PERTWEE!!!
So do some of the Doctors suddenly have EastEnders characters for companions? Three called her Liz, but she didn't look like HIS Liz...
And there's someone from UNIT with Bessie!
BRIGADIER TO THE RESCUE! WITH A HELICOPTER!
So that's probably the only televised meeting of the Brig and Six. And just when I thought he was the only one of the original seven...
Wait. ROMANA II IS THAT YOU WITH A HAIRCUT?
Wait...Romana III? I think? Cloned? What?
Ace is back, and K-9!!!
And then there were a few small s'plosions and then...THE END! APPARENTLY!
Well I have to admit, as much as that special gets panned, I'm a HUGE sucker for cameos so I enjoyed it. Now if only it had a real plot...
*checks Wikipedia* Holy crap, I was right: that WAS Mel.
And that wasn't Nyssa and Tegan with Five, it was Nyssa and PERI (that explains the American accent). So what was up with Nyssa's clothes?
And Peri's hair? Or pretty much ANYTHING in this special?
So that WAS Liz with Three! And Yates driving Bessie! And Romana with a haircut! And Leela who was cloned from her! (WHAT)
And a (shorter and wider) Victoria Waterfield running over the ship with Three! ...Should I just stop trying to make sense of ANY of this?
Yes. Yes I should. Actually, I might re-watch it later now that I know for certain the identities of everyone I was guessing at earlier.