Claws of Axos, parts 2-4

[dbskyler]

Watched the rest of this, and here are the rest of my reactions:



-- Amazingly cheesy monsters! I mean, really, you can't get any better for cheesy than a giant eyeball stalk, now can you?

-- Honorable mention goes to the person trying to be a menacing piece of Axos while crawling around on the floor underneath an Axon-colored tarpaulin. Oh well, he (or she) tried.

-- I also loved the brightly colored organic/plastic furniture around the inside of the spaceship, especially that yellow armchair the Doctor sat in for awhile.

-- "You may as well try to fly a second-hand gas stove!" My new favorite quote from the Master.

-- So many great moments with the Brigadier being all Brigadier-y.

-- The Doctor getting the Master to fix his TARDIS! Sneaky. Too bad it didn't work.

-- Time loop!

-- Sorry, Doctor, but we all know you would have come back even if your TARDIS had worked. Even the Brigadier and Jo seemed to know it.

Overall, a really fun episode!

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

*giggles* I'm almost tempted to re-watch this for the LOLZ - but I need to finish 'Trial' first...

I ♥ the Brigadier being Brigadier-y. No one does it better...

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

I ♥ the Brigadier being Brigadier-y. No one does it better...

I agree! : D

[thisbluespirit]

What is it: "Underpowered, overweight... you may as well try to fly a second hand gas stove." Didn't I tell you the Master's opinion on the TARDIS was worth watching for if it'd been the only good thing in it? Or maybe I didn't go that far. :-D

And, to the Brig, on the possible nuclear explosion, "You could take the usual precautions, sticky tape over the windows, that sort of thing..." :lol: And then everyone else is as completely clueless about nuclear explosions as he suggests. (Although, to be fair to the two writers, both times they do this, there is an energy-sucking alien around).

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Yeah, what is up with the writers and their fixation on energy-sucking aliens who break into nuclear reactors? Although if I'm remembering correctly, there's an interview on the "Hand of Fear" DVD where one of them says he lives down the road from the nuclear reactor that was used for location filming on that episode. I wonder if that has anything to do with it . . . maybe there's something we should know?

The Master does have great lines in this. I'd heard the "sticky tape on the windows" quote before, but never knew which episode it was from. The gas-stove quote was brand-new to me, but it really had me laughing.

[thisbluespirit]

Heh. My Dad's been to work at Oldham (the nuclear power station) on various occasions. He never noticed anything odd!

I was the other way round, but the delight of the Master's seemingly genuine dismay at what the Doctor's been doing to his TARDIS is lovely.