Time-Flight
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Time-Flight
Oh, so this was written by Peter "Robophobia" Grimwade!
Now let's see, last we left off we were minus one Adric. Let's see how the crew's getting along...
(...and how Five's dealing with his newfound estrogen-fest :B)
CONCORDE!
Ominous music playing during an airplane-related scene...I have to admit, as a New Yorker this makes me kinda nervous.
"Aren't you forgetting something rather important? Adric is dead!" ...I may never forgive Tegan for the awful delivery of that line.
Well I'm glad they brought up the "why couldn't we just go back and save him before the crash" thing. Let's hear Five's objection...
Pretty simple: you can't change your own history. Also, why am I just straight up NOT OKAY with the girls' acting in this scene?
Okay, I think this is the first time I've seen the TARDIS materialize about 50 FEET ABOVE THE GROUND.
"You've landed us right in the middle of a terminal building!"
"So I have..."
Wait WHY does Five get out of the TARDIS just to pick up a newspaper to check for cricket scores?!?
"Are you responsible for this box, sir?"
"Well...I TRY to be..."
Special UNIT/Brigadier mention! Which of course begs the question of whether or not they actually show up in this story.
Well, everyone's name is cleared now. And naturally UNIT ropes them into solving The Case of the Missing Concorde.
Also, Five's acting exceptionally scatterbrained. Looks like somebody's still dealing with the scars of companion-loss...
Concorde flight from New York? Alright, you have my attention now. (well, you did before, but now you have MORE of it)
Ladies and gentlemen: the TARDIS, sideways, on a forklift.
Huh. They must've had fun fitting the camera crew in there. Peter Davison looks like he's getting the full blast of the floodlights.
"It's amazing."
"What?"
"This thing is smaller on the inside than it is on the outside."
And now we get to watch Five attempt to enter the TARDIS on its side. The New Who part of my brain is half-expecting to hear "GERONIMO!"
That was actually cool to watch! We actually get to see the interior righting itself! Now why didn't Matt get to do that?
So they've landed at Heathrow but Air Traffic Control still isn't reading them...past or future? I'm betting past.
Nyssa sees Random Dead Bodies, screams, and suddenly it looks like Heathrow is a greenscreen effect. Hmm...
140 million years in the past, to be exact. WHAT.
AGH. My childhood obsession with the age of the dinosaurs has failed me. I just had to wikipedia when the Jurassic period was.
Random Chanting Asian Men, mysterious temples, downed spacecraft, and a mysterious absence of dinosaurs. This is getting really weird.
So Random Chanting Asian Man sent the passengers of the other concorde to steal the TARDIS. Okay, weirder things have happened on this show.
But still. THIS SHOW.
THERE WERE MEN MADE OF ROCKS. AND A CLOUD. AND PEOPLE UN-HAPPENED. I...WHAT. THIS. I DON'T EVEN
AND NOW THEY'VE GOT THE DOCTOR AND HE'S COVERED IN BUBBLES FOR ABSOLUTELY NO APPARENT REASON *FLAIL OF WHAT*
Okay, so they were made of PLASMA, not rocks.
"How did the Russians let you land?"
"...Russians?"
"Well, aren't we behind the Iron Curtain? Siberia?"
Ah yes, a product of the times...
Random Chanting Asian Man only seems to speak English as the plot demands.
And I REALLY wish he'd stop stroking the TARDIS like that...and kissing it...
Is it just me, or did Nyssa just get invisible!suffocated? Also, did her voice just go...manlier?
So it appears that there's more than one force at work here. Which begs the question: who's the third party?
"What's behind that thing?"
"Another thing, I should wonder."
Okay, so RCAM's name is actually Kaleed, AND he speaks in the third person. Lovely.
A villain who genuinely believes in mysticism? This is new...
I'd really love to just stab this guy in the face. SHUT. UP.
I'm actually a little surprised that nobody's tried smacking anyone else in the face to break the trance. That usually works. Sometimes.
WOAH HELLO VILLAIN-GENERATED-ILLUSION-ADRIC.
And they decided to go the extra mile and make him scream as he faded. Wow. That's actually going to haunt me for a little bit.
Epic kudos to Nyssa for seeing through an illusion of the thing that killed her father! Without batting an eyelash either!
So Kaleed calls on a two-headed snake? Why do I feel strangely compelled to make a stupid Pokemon reference here?
And now he's bleeding green goo. Ew. "There's got to be a perfectly simple, ORTHODOX explanation!" No. No there REALLY isn't.
WAIT A SECOND HOLY FUCK IT'S THE MASTER WHERE DID HE COME FROM ASIDE FROM UNDER THAT MASK GAAAHHHH
Now, where did we leave off? Ah yes...
MASTER MASTER MASTER MASTER MASTER MASTER MASTER MASTER MASTER MASTER MASTER MASTER MASTER MASTER MASTER MASTER MASTER MASTER MASTER MASTER
Oh man Anthony Ainley is totally camp. I can see it in the way he thrusts at Five with his dildo...I mean Tissue Compression Eliminator...
"Good heavens! That's never the TARDIS!" ...wait, what?
And the Master's all like "YEY TARDIS GET"
"They've stopped hallucinating!"
"That's not necessarily a good thing."
"What do you mean?"
"...Are you any good at explanations?"
Mundanes infiltrate the TARDIS. Oh come on, it'd be cool see a couple of airline pilots try and fly it!
So of COURSE the first time I see a TARDIS other than the Doctor's it's mostly off-screen. Feh.
"I think so...there was an explosion...oh, my head aches!" Tegan. Why did you speak that line in two completely different accents.
And it took me until now to realize that Professor Hayter is dressed almost exactly the same as Eleven. *facepalm*
Technobabble: Organic Creatures Edition
"I'm going to have a go at flying this thing." HERE WE GO.
FINALLY an utterance of "I am the Master, and you will obey me."
Ah, a supreme collective consciousness with split-personality disorder. Lovely. Although it kinda makes sense when you think about it...
Is it just me, or is the mind the ONLY weapon used in this serial? Okay, there's still the Master's dildo, but it hasn't been USED yet.
Ominous last words: "The Master has finally defeated me!" BUT WILL IT TAKE OFF?
Wow. Apparently functional chameleon circuits DO make excellent camouflage. I completely forgot that that pillar was the Master's TARDIS.
Wait. Professor Hayter. Inside. TARDI...WHAT.
And there you have it. Two British Airways pilots from the '80s successfully flew the TARDIS back to the Doctor. What was that I don't even.
Never mind. It was the dead-but-now-somehow-alive-and-all-knowing Professor.
The TARDIS materialized sideways again, which begs the question: WHAT are they standing on while they're climbing out?
"Skipper, have you any idea how you JACK UP A HUNDRED TONS OF AIRCRAFT?"
"We dig a hole."
Mind boggled just a little bit: second concorde is really the Master's TARDIS materialized AROUND the ACTUAL second concorde.
Wibbly-wobbly spacey-wacey stuff.
I'm still trying to wrap my brain around the fact that the Doctor and the Master are conducting a relatively cordial trade-off here.
I mean, the last time I saw this guy he was John Simm and COMPLETELY BATSHIT INSANE.
"Doctor...how ARE you going to deal with the Master?"
"...I'm THINKING about it!" *appears to go back to sleep*
Why do I have a funny feeling that a lot of the rest of this is going to be technobabble? They've been using it nearly nonstop for a while.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we do apologize for the delay. Your flight is now ready for boarding." Oh Tegan, back in your natural habitat, eh?
Wait, how are the concorde engines NOT COMPLETELY OBLITERATING Tegan's hearing?
Here we go, CLEARED FOR TAKEOFF!!!
*relives fond memories of watching that Cleared For Takeoff video over and over and over again when I was a kid*
Tegan magically has a purse, and I have a feeling she just missed her flight.
Ah yes, the old get-the-hell-out-of-here-before-we-have-to-explain-everything maneuver.
Wait, they...THEY ACTUALLY LEFT TEGAN BEHIND? I mean I know they were rushed but...the credits are rolling and...1,000TH TWEET!!!
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