Classic Doctor Who 6x07 "The War Games" eps 9-10 full reaction
Added 2022-04-30 20:03:40 +0000 UTC"Your appearance has changed before, it will change again. That is part of the sentence."
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There's a pretty interesting theory suggesting that Jo Martin's Fugitive "Ruth" Doctor comes in between the 2nd and 3rd Doctors.
Toby Harmon
2022-05-08 00:07:00 +0000 UTCI've often thought that, for Episode Ten, it would have been more appropriate to have dropped the artillery barrage during the opening credits and gone back to the standard title sequence for one last time. It would drive home the fact that the story we've been following for nine episodes is now essentially over, and that we are now in a separate story whose function is to provide a capstone and an ending for the entire series to date. "An Unearthly Child" introduced the Doctor as a mysterious wanderer of completely unknown origins with the ability to travel through the whole of space and time, and now "The War Games" ends by answering all the questions about where he comes from and removes his ability to travel -- leaving us in no doubt that whatever happens next, Doctor Who when it returns will be a very different show. The weirdness of the "regeneration" at the end (putting it in quotes because the concept of regeneration as we know it still hadn't been thought of yet) is quite unsettling, with Patrick Troughton pulling comedy faces and goofing around, refusing to choose his new form -- before suddenly having the decision forced upon him. Jon Pertwee had signed on to the show in the week before the last episode of "The War Games" was recorded, but that final shot of Troughton's Doctor spinning off into the darkness was done months before, as part of the pre-filming for the story. And thus there's a clean break between Doctor Who of the 1960s and the 1970s, with "Spearhead from Space" marking the first time in the show's history when a story had absolutely no credited cast in common with the previous story. (The only other time it happened, of course, was "Rose" in 2005.)
Steven Cooper
2022-05-01 05:59:59 +0000 UTC
