Doctor Who: The Space Museum
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| I wonder if they have a Dalek hidden within too? |
This is the second-to-last serial with Ian and Barbara as companions, so that'll be pretty interesting. Two seasons and we'll see five different companions. Three seasons and then we'll have a new Doctor. It really puts Amy and Rory's two-and-a-half season run into perspective. I hope we do see companions for longer than that though.
Also, all of the episodes in the past few seasons have run pretty close to each other. Each episode ends with the beginning of the next episode so timing is a little different. Granted, the characters were in Rome for weeks before they went to meet Nero. So, they probably spend a lot of time in certain "safe" locations. You should still keep it in mind though. There's nothing Ian and Barbara have seen that we haven't. That's pretty sad. At least Rose, Martha, and Donna got to see a lot of things we, the viewers didn't see. Or... it was implied.
Two Hours Later...
Well, that was a funny little episode. The more I see of Vicki the more I kind of like her. She's a funny and fun character who does sometimes do the things Susan did, but her attitude is completely different. She doesn't revere the Doctor so much that when he talks down to her she starts whining. Instead she tells him what happened with a spine and then shows him why what she did makes sense.
In this episode, the TARDIS did something wrong... again. It apparently "jumped time tracks"... which means the TARDIS crew arrive before they... arrive.
They show up on a planet that has a space museum and it's covered in dust. However, wherever they walk, they don't leave footprints. They also walk through things and no one can see them. Then they come across themselves in a sort of stasis on display in the museum. They hang out watching themselves until the crew genuinely "arrives" and then their stasis-frozen selves vanish and the crew are in an empty display room in the space museum.
The caretakers of the museum (who are also the builders) are called Moroks and they suddenly notice the TARDIS and the footprints leading from the TARDIS into the museum. They have conquered the planet the museum is on and rule it, selling all the natives as adults as slaves. The natives of the planets are called Xerons (the planets if Xeros) and they are trying to stage a revolution.
Well, the TARDIS crew are trying to figure out a way to get off the planet safely without becoming exhibits in the museum while the Moroks try to turn them into exhibits and the Xerons try to elicit their help in the Glorious Revolution.
The Doctor is captured by the Moroks and nearly turned into an exhibit. Ian tries to save the Doctor. Vicki helps with the Glorious Revolution and then goes to find Barbara. Barbara gets herself captured. Vicki rescues her and then they all end up in the same place about to be turned into exhibits.
Then the Xerons win their Glorious Revolution and the TARDIS crew escape the fate of becoming exhibits in an abandoned space museum. They leave Xeros, flush with victory, the Doctor having acquired a new toy called a time/space visualizer. Unfortunately, they're being followed by Daleks.
And the episode ends!
I liked this episode. There was an interesting twist to the whole "TARDIS crew land on the planet, get separated from the TARDIS and help people while trying to get it back" plot. In this case, they're trying to change the future without knowing what led them on the path to the future. That's pretty impressive. More impressive considering most of the previous episodes have stressed that one cannot change one's own history.
Next episode is The Chase. It's also the last episode with Ian and Barbara. I'm going to miss those two. They're fun.
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