Puny Master

I just saw ‘Planet of Fire’ and with the last cliffhanger and episode for that story, I couldn’t help laughing and saying, “Puny Master, puny Master, crush him with your shoe, Peri! Why did she have to sneeze just when she was about to crush him? He was running around like a scared little mouse, climbing into and out of his console! I almost wish that he could have been talking with a squeaky little voice when she first uncovered him inside his ‘Master control box’. Ha!

No wonder he needed Kamelion to help him out of that fix. I had wondered why he was using the robot to save him, in that he had to be incapacitated in some way. I never imagined he would be so small, though, until a minute or so before Peri uncovered him.

I’m also in the middle of watching ‘Trial of A Time Lord’, so I happened to just see Peri’s last story before her first story, which is kind of strange, but oh well. I liked The Mysterious Planet well enough, a very good story with some funny/brilliant moments, but Mindwarp sort of dragged a little bit more and I did feel frustrated with it, the back and forth questioning as to whether or not the Raak attacked the Doctor and Peri and the Doctor betraying them, not to mention the fiasco with Sil and his people, the ‘rebellion’, and Peri’s ‘demise’. Brian Blessed was pretty good even with his fairly limited role, and he tried his best to make the guy likeable enough.

As usual, I’m going back and forth between watching the stories and reading Philip Sandifer’s TARDIS Eruditorum blog on the story to see what sort of thoughts he had about it. It’s pretty interesting, and I agree with his opinions most of the time. I have also been checking out An Adventure with the Wife in Time and Space blog as well, just getting into that after hearing about it from Sandifer. Pretty funny and excellent as well, I think on a personal level, I’m somewhere in between the wife and husband in terms of their opinions of the Doctor Who episodes/stories.

I’m still watching Buffy/Angel, although a bit more intermittently, having finished up Angel Season Two (I struggled in the middle of Season Two, but at last I finished watching it. I had not realized that Lorne never revealed his name until the fourth-to-last episode of the season. And there was a bit at the beginning of Reprise…the sound effect of the bleating/crying comes from the goats, but then the camera focuses on the broken baby doll in the shopping cart with Angel in the background, so they were already thinking about Connor! Or at least that’s my opinion there.)

I have not finished watching Buffy Season Five, however. For a while there, I saw quite a few episodes, but then I stopped after I saw The Body and finished up Angel, and it’s a little hard getting back into Buffy. The episode Forever took Forever to watch.

I’ll mention the other recent Doctor Who serials I have seen later.