The Keeper of Traken
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The Keeper of Traken
So we jump right to the TARDIS, fresh from E-Space and sans one Time Lady and one Shooty Dog Thing.
Hello boys! Admiring the view, are we?
"You criticize my logic?"
"Nnno. I'm just saying that a lot of the time you don't really make sense."
Welcome to being a companion, Adric.
"Adric, if I knew EVERYTHING that was going to happen, where would the fun be?" Cue Completely Random Old Man appearing in the TARDIS.
Ah, so this is the titular Keeper!
"Come on, it's still fairly impressive! I'm mean I couldn't flit about the universe in an old chair like this!" The TARDIS must be insulted.
Amused by the fact that the Keeper has apparently hijacked the TARDIS viewscreen for what looks like a documentary video.
I really shouldn't laugh at people being nice to each other but...wow, the Trakenites are like walking sugar.
Tremas! I know where this thread is going...
But more importantly, NYSSAAAAAAA!!
Is it just me, or is Nyssa's hair twice as curly here than it is in nearly everything else I've seen her in?
Traken: Peaceful, harmonious, nearly perfect...and then there was a MUUUUURDEEEEEER! #dundunduuuun
"As for your handwriting..."
"My handwriting, what about my handwriting?!"
"...It's marvelous. :D"
You're catching on quickly, Adric.
Wait a sec, where did your marshbelt go? Or is this one of the continuity errors that the InfoText is about to list?
Apparently it is, because you're magically wearing it again o_O
Glowing Red Eyes, typical sign of a villain. Glowing Red Eyes that make the TARDIS disappear, it isn't even a question anymore.
But you can't retire! There's evil afoot! "EEEVIIIIIL!"
Wow. Nyssa's mom is starting to creep me out a bit.
*sigh* Will disposable extras in fiction never learn to NOT just stand there saying "NO!" when a monster shows up and just RUN from it? No.
Remember what I said about Nyssa's mom being kinda creepy? Yeah. She's hiding dead bodies now.
Hello again, Nyssa! Actually getting to talk at last?
Well, the kids certainly seem to be hitting it off. Looks like they're on exactly the same wavelength, technologically.
And now Kassia's wearing a big metal ring around her neck. If nobody notices this and gets suspicious, I will be VERY disappoint.
So Melkur's being controlled by...OH YES...I KNOW WHERE THIS IS GOING...
Smart Four catches on, apparently without pointing out the necklace. Or should I say choker?
Nyssa and Adric can be impressively sneaky little buggers, can't they? Uh oh, they've been split up...
JESUS, Four. Thank you for making it so much easier for me to avoid making a "surprise buttsex" joke. *shivers*
AHFKDHASLDFHDSKLFHD THOSE EYES. HOLY SHIT. MY BRAIN IS NOT OKAY WITH THIS IMAGE. Also, no one else noticed the collar. I am very disappoint.
"Adric, Tremas, don't look at its eyes!"
"...Doctor, look!"
TARDIS is back! Yayness! But then there was a Kassia...
And a stun-net! Jeez, these people think of everything.
Nyssa, something is very very wrong with your mom. Go and talk to her about it.
See if you can use some things from your little blue box to help the boys from the big blue box.
So the Trakenites have gone from the peaceful flower-laying race of the first episode to the we-must-kill-prisoners-as-a-deterrent's of now.
Wow. Nyssa was already zapping people in her way LONG before Arc of Infinity! NICE.
Four, what is it with putting your hand over kid's mouths in this serial? #itmakessenseincontext
"Ah good morning or afternoon or is it evening it's very hard to keep track of time around here!"
Looks like Adric was right about the searches in the rooms, if by "searches" you mean "trashing." And is that an eggplant on the table?
"What can't be cured must be endured."
"That's the silliest thing you ever said."
"Don't listen to me, I never do."
Well Four, maybe next time you should stop and listen when one of your companions says "stop, listen."
Most. Convenient. Thunderstorm. Ever.
MELKUR WAS A TARDIS. AND NOT JUST ANY TARDIS, BUT CRISPY!MASTER'S TARDIS. I still need to figure out what I'm calling him in his Blog tag...
"How could it just disappear and reappear like that?"
"Oh that's nothing, we do it all the time in the TARDIS."
So this whole time, Four's been adamantly avoiding Melkur's gaze, but now he's looking on veeeeeery intently.
"But why is it so much bigger inside than it is outside?"
"Well the Doctor told me that it was dimensionally transcendental."
"What does *that* mean?"
"Well it means it was bigger inside than outside."
Wait..."was"?
And now we've got someone ELSE with a collar. Again, disappoint.
WHY AM I SO INTRIGUED BY THE PRESENCE OF EGGPLANTS IN THIS SERIAL.
"Umm, listen, do you know that expression 'two heads are better than one'?" *BONK* "Well I think that one head's better than three!"
Adric and Nyssa, in the TARDIS, S-C-I-E-N-C-I-N-G. (don't even try singing this. It won't work ever.)
"Now, Council Tremas, who do you obey?"
"I...obey...you, Melkur."
Is can be Master time now?
Wait...does he ACTUALLY have Four under his control? That's the ONLY reason the Doctor would stand by and let someone commit suicide.
Aww, and just when I thought they'd all been saved by The Power Of Science, Melkur nabs Four and takes off.
I'm still trying to place Beevers!Master on the Diabolical-Crazy Scale. Right now, more Diabolical with just a hint of Crazy.
OH WAIT, THE POWER OF SCIENCE PREVAILS AFTER ALL!
And now everything may rest on Adric punching in three simple numbers against raging winds...
Close enough. Adric got the first two and Four got the third. Which leaves 4 minutes left for that One Last Bad Thing I know will happen.
I'm surprised that Trakenites keep Earth-time clocks. I feel like I should pay more attention to things like that.
Wait never mind that was the Master's TARDIS and OH GOD THERE WE GO, WHY HELLO AINLEY!MASTER!
You know, I'd spent this whole time knowing Ainley was playing Tremas, so the back of my mind kept telling me he was a bad guy all along.
Oh well, Late Arrival Spoilers. With a show this long and this popular, they're bound to happen.
"This DVD is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Anthony Ainley. 1932-2004"
*Master thumbs-up* "Thanks, guv. Hehehehehe..."
... ;__;
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