![]() This story establishes that Time Lords can survive in a vacuum for a limited time in what has to be one of the silliest scenes in Doctor Who history. Those helmets look absolutely ridiculous. Someone should've told the Doctor that hyperventilating is not the best way to preserve his oxygen. The Doctor tells Tegan that no one on Earth will believe them about Monarch's invasion. ![]() There’s Burt Kwouk, OBE, in a supporting role as one of androids in Monarch's stereotype collection. The Doctor was a friend of Francis Drake, was at Heathrow when they were rebuilding Terminal 3, and once took five wickets for New South Wales. Bizarrely, he’s forgiven by the end of the story rather than kicked out of the TARDIS. Even the Doctor gets in on the action by giving the treacherous little twerp a right telling off (“Listen to me, you young idiot”). Tegan finally does what everyone else has been longing to do for a long time and wallops him. First he shows how sexist he is by dismissing women as "mindless, impatient and bossy" (which somehow doesn't end with Nyssa and Tegan beating him to a pulp with that maths book) then, for the umpteenth time, betrays the Doctor and his ‘friends’ to the first alien invader he encounters. The petulant maths wiz has never been more detestable than he is here. I know Tegan is new to all of this and an unwilling companion in the Doctor's travels, but the way she completely loses her cool, goes running back to the TARDIS and tries to fly it while crying her eyes out just feels out of character. That said, her over the top hysterics in episode three really drives me up the wall. Her Aussie sarcasm provided a nice contrast to his thoroughly English optimism. Peter Davison might have believed that Nyssa was the companion best suited to his Doctor, but I've always believed that Tegan complimented him best. At the same time Adric and Nyssa wander aimlessly around Monarch's rather bland looking ship learning that the various cultural stereotypes are actually all androids, a reveal that is dragged out far longer than it needs to be. Almost an entire episode is wasted on the Doctor and Tegan watching the various cultural stereotypes put on a very dull cultural festival. A more accurate title would be 'Four Very Long Days to Doomsday'. 'Four to Doomsday' in an alien invasion story that never actually gets around to the invasion. Like most aliens on this show, he wants to TAKE OVER ZE VORLD!!!! At least he would, if he ever actually got there. "You know, I come here from time to time myself and nothing on earth changes quite so often as the fashion! You wouldn't believe the way some people look!"Īfter a opening shot that is a rather blatant attempt to ape Star Wars, the larger than necessary Team TARDIS find themselves on a massive spaceship controlled by a humanoid frog, who has collected a large assortment of cultural stereotypes. ![]() The new season of The Apprentice made some big changes ![]()
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