Against everyone’s advice, except for some divorce lawyers who contacted us last week, our adventure continues with a reconstruction. Sue is initially perplexed by the experience. Sue: It looks like a normal episode to me. This isn’t so bad. I don’t know what all the fuss is about. Me: This is the recap from the…
The Edge of Destruction Sue finds it amusing that travelling in the TARDIS is a traumatic experience for everyone concerned, and when the crew are thrown violently to the floor, she doesn’t see it as a portent of doom, she regards it as business as usual. She’s wrong, of course. Sue: What the hell is…
The Dead Planet Sue: What’s this one called then? Me: ‘The Dead Planet’. Sue: How many episodes is it? Me: One. Sue: Excellent. Me: Well, I say ‘one’. You’re not supposed to know. The episodes have individual titles, which means you wouldn’t have known when one adventure might end and another would begin. A story…
An Unearthly Child Sue: Eh? This was Sue’s first reaction to the episode. She absorbed it in complete silence, except for an early aside where she vaguely remembered who Dixon of Dock Green was. Me: Is that all you’ve got? Sue: I thought it would be a lot longer than that. Of all the opening…
I blame Toby Hadoke and Rob Shearman. I was reading their wonderful Running Through Corridors book when I was inevitably inspired to watch Doctor Who from the beginning again. I’ve attempted this feat several times before, of course, but I usually crumble in the middle of The Sensorities, and if I cheat and jump to…