Horror of Fang Rock
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Horror of Fang Rock
Creepy old lighthouse and...GIANT PURPLE THING FALLS FROM THE SKY!
Two cockney chaps eating a bit o' supper and yammering about the safety o' the lighthouses. Sometimes you just don't get more British...
Huh. I didn't think "like nobody's business" was a term they used back then.
TARDIS model! And I LOVE how the lighthouse flashes were synced with the engines.
WHAT IS THIS SHOW'S SUDDEN OBSESSION WITH ICELAND
Four and Leela changed clothes again? THE SCARF IS BACK but Leela looks like Romana II. This is very strange and confusing.
Scream of death by Mysterious Unidentified Glowy Green Thing muffled by a foghorn. Ouch.
"TESHnician?"
I think this is the first time I've seen anyone hit on Leela. This can't end well.
...and she starts undressing in front of him. what. they can't be THAT wet...
Not sure I approve of Vince's acting ability.
Well, Leela, if you insist on going down and sneaking up on him while holding a knife of COURSE he'll think you didn't kill Ben!
Oh, she's just sneaking outside.
Wait! Doctor! Keep talking! What was that about SLAVERY that made you mention Gallifrey all of a sudden?
Run aground boat has run aground.
So we've gone from Mysterious Unidentified Glowy Green Thing to Mysterious Zappy Blue Thing.
Four, if you're trying to convince someone that there is "nothing supernatural happening," could you try NOT using your creepy-eyes?
Subplot exposition! With FINANCES!
Why does Four's scarf have a mysterious loose yarn in a loop-shape? I notice weird things...
Aside from the whole "isolation" thing, why does the Doctor automatically assume that a creature he's established as "curious" is hostile?
"Gentlemen, I've got news for you: This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we might all be dead. :D Anyone interested?" Four = love.
When a savage alien woman is threatening to cut out your heart, Tom Baker will stare at you. I love this show.
Reuben was next. Called it!
I don't watch horror movies, but I can say with a lot of certainty that if he says "is anybody there?" he's going to die next.
BUT IS HE A ZOMBIE?
"Well that's what I thought, but of course I'M 'only a savage'..."
"Well, come on, Savage!"
"Look, I'm a businessman! How could there be anything wrong?" Why do I find that line slightly brilliant?
Guys there is a jellyfish thing climbing up the side of the lighthouse.
Okay, you're dead.
Said the Doctor to the companion with a sledgehammer: "The Malicious Damage Act, 1861, covers lighthouses."
"What?"
"Nothing."
The secretary finds out her employer's dead, she screams, Leela smacks her. WHY WAS THAT AWESOME.
"I too used to believe in magic, but then the Doctor taught me about science. It is better to believe in science." New favorite Leela line?
Umm...Four has a sonic screwdriver, right? So...why can't he just FIX THE TELEGRAPH?
I haven't even seen Waters of Mars yet, but I already know that Adelaide Brooke is WAAAAAAAAAAAAY better than Adelaide the secretary.
Lycanthropy? But wait, does that mean that the bad guy is an electric were-jellyfish?
"Organic restructuring of physiology"? Well guys, I think I just found the official Time Lord technical term for "regeneration."
FOUR. IS. HANGING. OUT OF WINDOW. HOLY SHIT. (actually I can kinda tell that that's just a special effect, BUT STILL...)
I think pretty much everybody's done for by this point.
OH! THOSE ARE THE RUTANS! I keep hearing them named in reference to the Sontarans, but this is the first time I've SEEN one...
Aha! There it is! "You're at last losing that war with the Sontarans?"
The Doctor identified it as an intelligent life form and he STILL killed it? Well, okay, it was a soldier, BUT STILL...
C'mon Leela, I saw you eye that bag of jelly babies before you threw it in...
PLEASE TELL ME THEY'RE GOING TO TURN THE LIGHTHOUSE INTO A LASER BEAM.
Going into the pants for diamonds. That doesn't look gay at ALL. Oh well, context is everything...
Now, who's fault was that? Four's for throwing the diamonds down the stairs, or the other guy for trying to pick them up again?
"Enjoy your death as I enjoyed KILLING YOU!" Yikes. I can understand why Tom Baker didn't like Leela for being "too violent."
"Slay me now, Doctor. I am blind." ...OH GOD WHAT.
"Blink. ...Leela, stop blinking now." Lawling just a little bit.
And they leave with Four quoting more poetry out of nowhere. And everybody's dead. That was a good arc!
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