Oops. Time to procrastinate.
Sep. 11th, 2007 06:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eponymous_roseJust zipped through all seven episodes of the Third Doctor serial "The Silurians" and am absolutely, hopelessly hooked.
(Electric kazoos and button-mashing synthesizers? AT EXTREMELY LOUD VOLUMES? What?)
First off - end of episode seven was basically word-for-word the end of "The Christmas Invasion". Well, uh, not the happy yay-it's-Christmas ending. Alien menace to Earth, the Doctor's agreed to negociate terms with them so long as they stay in their little Silurian bunkers and don't bother anyone, the military's on board and everything. And then the Doctor and Liz drive off, and the Brigadier gives the order to blow up the Silurians:
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DOCTOR: The Brigadier - he's blown up the Silurian base.
LIZ: He must have had orders from the Ministry.
(The DOCTOR looks at her.)
DOCTOR: And you knew?
LIZ: (Sharply.) No! The government were frightened. They just couldn't take the risk.
DOCTOR: But that's murder. They were an intelligent alien beings. A whole race of them. He's just wiped them out.
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And that is how the episode ends. Very intense. Very awesome.
There was a lot of running into and out of caves and doing SCIENCE and stuff in these episodes, but it actually held together pretty dang well for... what? Over three hours? That's an impressive amount of time to keep suspense running. And it had a lot of really classic themes - the alien invasion, the plague, the nuclear disaster, etc. but put some awesomely new spins on them. And having one of the most likeable human main characters be responsible for a genocide? That's gutsy, that is.
...I might just be a bit obsessed, now. Might. :D
(Electric kazoos and button-mashing synthesizers? AT EXTREMELY LOUD VOLUMES? What?)
First off - end of episode seven was basically word-for-word the end of "The Christmas Invasion". Well, uh, not the happy yay-it's-Christmas ending. Alien menace to Earth, the Doctor's agreed to negociate terms with them so long as they stay in their little Silurian bunkers and don't bother anyone, the military's on board and everything. And then the Doctor and Liz drive off, and the Brigadier gives the order to blow up the Silurians:
__
DOCTOR: The Brigadier - he's blown up the Silurian base.
LIZ: He must have had orders from the Ministry.
(The DOCTOR looks at her.)
DOCTOR: And you knew?
LIZ: (Sharply.) No! The government were frightened. They just couldn't take the risk.
DOCTOR: But that's murder. They were an intelligent alien beings. A whole race of them. He's just wiped them out.
___
And that is how the episode ends. Very intense. Very awesome.
There was a lot of running into and out of caves and doing SCIENCE and stuff in these episodes, but it actually held together pretty dang well for... what? Over three hours? That's an impressive amount of time to keep suspense running. And it had a lot of really classic themes - the alien invasion, the plague, the nuclear disaster, etc. but put some awesomely new spins on them. And having one of the most likeable human main characters be responsible for a genocide? That's gutsy, that is.
...I might just be a bit obsessed, now. Might. :D
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Date: 2007-09-12 01:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-12 01:45 am (UTC)But man was the sound in that episode annoying.I need a Three icon.
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Date: 2010-08-15 02:08 pm (UTC)(Also there was once a most awesome conversation on my LJ - with me not involved - all about how the BBC must have had a contract with some preschool band to score all Silurians/Sea Devils episodes. And how at some point it sounds like the kazoo player swallows his kazoo and keeps on playing anyway!)