The Sun Makers
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The Sun Makers
Already a bombardment of strange images: almost completely blank walls, ridiculous hats, and what appears to be an Aztec sun mural-thing.
"There was even a picture of a tree!" I don't think I've ever heard someone sound enlightened when remembering a picture of a tree.
Ahhhh, so THAT'S what they meant by "the citizens being taxed to death."
TARDIS! Chess! Four! K-9! LEEEELLLAAAAAA! (I missed you)
"Well, the column has stopped moving."
"So?"
"It is not important?"
"WHAAAT? We might've gone right through the time spiral! Why didn't you tell me?"
"Well I tried to but..."
"You didn't!"
"I did!"
"You didn't!"
"I DID!"
"YOU DIDN'T!"
"I DID!"
*checks Wikipedia* So K-9 hasn't been around very long, looks like Four is still getting used to him.
Also PLUTO IS STILL A PLANET. #PLUTOISSTILLAPLANET #mychildhood #fuckyouscience
"Leela...I think you and I should take a...W-A-L-K."
"...W-A-L-K?"
"WUH-AH-LUK!"
"Woulk, mistress?"
Poor K-9...
Around 20 degrees? I wonder what that translates to in Fahrenheit... #haveimentionedidontlikescience
Four, that man's about to commit suicide. I REALLY don't think this is the time to be commenting on the view. Leela's got the right idea...
On the other hand, Jelly Babies: The Solution to Everything.
"What is he saying, Doctor? I do not understand." Don't worry, Leela, financial lingo goes right over my head, too.
"Then the people should rise up and SLAUGHTER THEIR OPPRESSORS!" ajklsfdhaslkfhsdklhlksd ILU LEELA. SO MUCH FOREVER.
PANTY SHOT (of course with that camera angle, it was basically inevitable).
Also, has anyone else noticed how modern-looking that guy's shoes are?
"Perhaps everyone runs from the Taxman." Another one of those Who-lines I've seen quoted in quite a few places.
"What? SIX SUNS on PLUTO?" SCIENCE.
Hello again, K-9! Uh oh, I hope you're not the "tracking system" they were just talking about...
Oh Leela, you and your love of cutting people's hearts out... Also, Four, you only got tapped in the neck with a whip. Stop falling.
"YOU TOUCH ME AGAIN AND I'LL FILLET YOU." Or, "BITCH, I'MA FUCKIN' *CUT* YOU."
I'm still confused as to whether K-9 is seeking his masters out on his own or if the Gatherers are somehow controlling him.
Leela doesn't look too keen on the whole life-at-stake thing here. Also, I'm impressed at how much of this seems to be shot on location.
ATMs that gas people? That's...new.
Ah, the head honcho is a short, hunched little man with a very high-pitched voice staring at ticker-tape. Nope, not allegory at all.
Also, Tom Baker grunts like a cow when he sits up HEY MY TWITTER COUNTER IS BACK TO NORMAL.
"You're time's up, girl. Seize her!" Is Leela gonna hafta choke a bitch?
I love how Leela's being more of a man than all of the men in that room. At once.
Ah yes, defeat by good old-fashioned sabotage.
K-9 seems to be sounding...listless. Apparently it is in fact possible for robot dogs to do that.
Four, I think leaving your Jelly Babies just out of that guy's reach might've been just a bit torturous.
"So there's nothing to be afraid of, just something in the air?" And that is how Leela > science.
"K-9...bite."
"Mistress?"
"...Stun him."
Well Four and the Gatherer certainly seem to hit it off. And do Four's pockets just happen to spawn Jelly Babies at the whim of convenience?
I don't remember K-9's motor ever being this loud. Also...what's that bit of tape sticking out of his snout?
Wow. This facility has some epic EPIC corridors. SERIOUSLY.
You know, I only just recently realized that Leela's leotard doesn't really have a back. The straps just loop around her neck.
"Get them, K-9." Oh so calmly, too. Oh my god I am now instantly in love with the huntress/attack-dog relationship that Leela and K-9 have.
"Satisfactory, mistress?"
"Get their guns."
"Satisfactory, mistress?"
"Yes, K-9! What do you want, a biscuit?"
*...droopy-tail*
Awwwwwww...
Sorry Leela, but it looks like your newfound command of machines doesn't extend to patrol cars.
Also, I'm glad they cut away before they ran over the two guards they just shot.
Aww, and Leela was having such a good time before she got NAILED IN THE HEAD.
"The Gatherer gave me a cock and bull story..." Exhaustion prevents me from giggling at the fact that they just said "cock" on this show.
Ah yes, good ol' Doctor, rallying the oppressed with a plan that falls well within the walls of plausibility and we-can-do-this-ibility.
Oh. Oh dear. Leela in a straitjacket. Rarely do I see such disapproval of shenanigans. She is about ready to choke every bitch.
FOUR. YOUR GLASSES. I MEAN EYEPATCH. I MEAN MONOCLE. I MEAN MAGNIFYING GLASS.
I love how the Gatherer refers to the Collector by a different title every time he talks and it's always a synonym of "your hugeness."
(Also, I just had the most UNBELIEVABLE English-fail just now and forgot the word "synonym" for a full five minutes or so.)
Wait. How do they have Leela suspended against the wall at a 45-degree angle like that.
I don't know about you guys, but that loop footage that Four made doesn't look the most convincing.
"This is the gangster terrorist soon to be executed..." Leela: Gangster Terrorist, you guys. Gangster. Terrorist.
"K-9...*cough* I don't know how to say this, K-9, but..."
"Master, your concern is noted. Please do not embarrass me."
Ten seconds to save Leela from...is she being sweated to death or pressurized to death?
And we open our fine episode with Frightened Sweaty Strapped-Down Leela. I can almost retroactively hear the man-squee.
So the rebel's warning to the Doctor was basically just inadvertently broadcast to the bad guys. Ouch.
My mind is torn on whether or not to appreciate the bright blocky nursery-playroom primary-colored control panels on the wall.
Huh. I think this is the first time I've ever seen Leela hug or get hugged by someone.
Sooo, was there any real point to K-9 randomly disappearing just now?
Also, why is the Collector just spinning around in circles like that? (and I'm amazed that I haven't said this yet but, this man's EYEBROWS)
So let's see: it's the beginning of the episode and the rebels' spirits are sky-high, which means something big has to go wrong.
On the other hand, it's also the beginning of the *last* episode, so there's every chance that all the bad stuff will just happen to Four.
I've seen the Doctor do hypnosis before, but never solely with his eyes. Tom Baker's eyes. As hypnotic devices. This is actually terrifying.
Or maybe it was his voice, because it seems to've affected Leela too. Wait...the Doctor with hypnotic voice. A little deus ex machina, guys?
Actually, that's not quite the term I'm looking for, but it just seems a tad God-Mode-ish if he can just bend people to his will like that.
Of course, why am I even bitching about this when I've only really seen it used like this this one time?
"I've just heard that some of the work units have gone to the roof of Block 40 to have a look at our sun." And then I heard that as "son."
"Is there something behind the door?"
"What was that?"
"I heard nothing."
"Neither did I."
"Then why are we whispering?"
"I always whisper when I'm opening safes."
OH SHIT WHAT DID LEELA JUST GET ZAPPED BY
"Why don't you listen to me? Why don't you girls listen to me?" Well Four, you DID never tell her "don't go in there, you could get zapped."
And now I've FINALLY seen the final version of that clip from the Tom Baker-era outtakes reel with "WOOHOOOOOO!" *BANG* "IT'S OVER!!!"
They just threw the Gatherer off a building. And they're laughing like mad. This is an excellent picture of revolution being batshit scary.
Four walks in to confront the bad guy with a chair over his head which he doesn't use as a weapon, but as a chair. That's just so...him.
Hey. Stop touching Four's hair. Why...why did you even do that just now?
Okay, maybe saying "wake up" wasn't the best idea when you have a hypnotized sleeping person in the next room.
On the other hand, Leela seems to be coming around too, so I'll bet I know where this is going.
Called it. Leela and her knife to the rescue!
The...the Collector just got...shrunken and sunk into his chair? Or something? ...What?
And the first thing when they go back in the TARDIS? Resume chess, which Four "accidentally" knocks over. K-9 just GROWLED, you guys.
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