The Space Museum
Previous: The Crusade
The Space Museum
We're nearly 2 minutes in and everybody's been standing almost COMPLETELY still every time we've seen them.
"Doctor, we've got our clothes on!"
"Well I should hope so, my dear boy! I should hope so!"
Wow. Now that was quite an effect. Vicki's glass-dropping literally just un-happened back into her hand.
"We're walking on dust. Several inches thick, I'd say."
"Yes yes, so it appears."
"Then why aren't we leaving any footprints?"
*MUSICAL CUE*
Apparently the residents of this museum are deaf to the sounds of companion-sneezing.
"I don't understand where the light comes from."
"Oh I think it might be just some flores-flo-florescent substance in the, um, walls."
Model-Dalek on display!
Wait, they're not just deaf to sneezes, they speak in *complete silence.*
Hartnell stares at that camera quite intensely...
Exhibit One. Literally.
Aaagggghhhh, timey-wimey stuff...not what I need right before bed...
"Next Episode: The Dimensions of Time." ...No comment.
First Big Question of the Episode: That hair = wat?
Amused by the fact that this story has a character named Darko. Which reminds me of a certain movie I need to re-watch...
Second Big Question of the Episode: Why do those kids have TWO sets of eyebrows?
I think this might be the first Hartnell story I've seen that actually RUNS on timey-wimey stuff.
Capture one of the TARDIS members and then "explain later"? Are you sure that's such a smart idea?
Especially since you've taken...you know...THE DOCTOR.
Vicki seems to have the right idea. "Maybe he's been captured." That was FAST.
DALEK!ONE! Because sometimes the Doctor is just greater than everything.
Huh. The music in this part kinda sounds like me being ever so slightly frustrated with the piano.
For added awesome, CARDIGAN-NOMMING!IAN!
Ian has a penknife in his pocket? I have a feeling that would've been REALLY handy in a number of previous predicaments.
Ah, museums that strap people into chairs and interrogate them. What a charming place!
One certainly seems to be taking this all in stride. He's chuckling at every other thing.
Oooo, you shouldn't have told the Doctor how your mental scanner works. Now he can override it. And you know why? Because DOCTOR.
So according to that screen, the Doctor comes from a giant rock in the ocean made of walruses. MADE OF WALRUSES.
"But these are amphibious creatures. You are not an amphibian, are you?"
"No I'm not, am I?"
......Doctor you're not a model in a hat and spandex either why are you showing us that.
When they say "take him to the preparation room," I can't help but get this REALLY uncomfortable feeling that One is about to be taxidermed.
Has anyone else noticed that all the guys in white look almost EXACTLY the same?
I'm AMAZED that the guard let the companions chat away like that for so long. I mean, he has them at GUNPOINT.
I think Ian's badass moment was ruined ever so slightly by someone coughing loudly in the background (not in my room, in the episode).
NEVER MIND BADASS MOMENT RESUMED
Guys, Ian just got nearly an entire scene of just him kicking ass. With awesome music. #HOLYCRAPWHYCANTALLSCIENCETEACHERSBEIAN
Now this is a bit odd. Usually when they completely split the group up, they do it in the first episode. Here they're doing it in the third.
Oh, and 6,000TH TWEET!
"No, no don't kill me!"
"That depends on you."
Again. Ian. You. Most badass of ever.
Wait...the preparation room is "a kind of embalment"? So many my taxidermy theory from earlier wasn't too far off o__o
It seems to be physically impossible for a peaceful harmonious people to NOT be taken over by an aggressive warlike people.
After seeing what Vicki just set in motion, I feel like I should officially make "can start a rebellion" a piece of Good Companion Criteria.
If that low shot was any indication, we will apparently still have Converse in the future.
WAIT A SEC. HOLY CRAP. I JUST REALIZED THAT BARBARA ACTUALLY HAS THE GOOD SENSE TO NOT WEAR HEELS. AT FRIGGING LAST.
"What is your name?"
"Vicki."
"For what purpose are the arms needed?"
"REVOLUTION!"
Ian just said that it "might be enjoyable" to kill the governor. A remarkable amount of people are going a tad gun-crazy in this story...
Ah yes, the old try-to-cut-the-TARDIS-open trick. When will the universe learn that that won't work?
"Body temperature has now been reached." Which could be anything, considering this is the Doctor we're talking about.
One's back! And he's resumed his okay-ness with gun use. I wonder if we'll ever get to see him actually fire one...
Guys, turn around, you're being approached by a hoard of dude with guns.
It would seem at this point that the only hope is Vicki's revolution. Everyone else is in pretty dire straights.
Well, everyone's back together again and two of those kids are dead. This is looking both bright and bleak.
Oh, looks like Darko's not dead after all! Yayness.
VICTORY AND WIN! And guess what? Remember that stuck spring from Edge of Destruction? Apparently something similar happened this time...
"It's what they call a time and space visualizer!" OH YEAH, doesn't this get used in The Chase? Like, a lot?
Awww, I think Vicki and Tor might've had a little something going there.
Meanwhile, far away on another planet...DALEKS.
Oh wow, I'm going to be saying goodbye to Ian and Barbara next story...
Next: The Chase