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The Brink of Disaster, Gallifrey Gals Get Wibbly Wobbly, Classic!

🕑 Added 2023-05-04 17:00:03 +0000 UTC

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Josef Schiltz

Looking back at your reactions to Susan's "inconsistency" of behaviour, plotwise - of course - Susan has to act as an interlocutor between her grandfather and Ian and Barbara. She has to be their advocate. But also, at this point, because of her familiarity with them both, she probably would have the ability to break through the set of negative emotions to a sense of clarity - with the only very occasional flip, which Barbara brought her out of. The other point, Paula, did you purposefully call Ian Chesterton, "Chesterson"?

Josef Schiltz

Unpracticed as the TARDIS is at such things, it's hardly surprising that she got things a bit wrong.

hrcaffee

Nice Kat, oat meal bowl in front of me at the start of the episode as well, twinsies. Though I'm straight plain flavor. I've never seen this episode before but as soon as we saw the bandage I started waiting for the "fornicator" moment (from An Adventure in Space and Time), looks like it was shot different from how they portrayed it in the historical drama.

Mark Ten

*Maybe it was 'One Step Beyond' - now that was a show!

Mark Ten

I remember as a kid being fascinated by a b-plot mystery where a cop is being chased by a robber who stole his gun. Every 5 minutes or so, you got back to this story line and the villain was a little closer to the exhausted detective. (Never questioned why there was a jungle with swamps, vines and giant snakes outside of Los Angeles). Then with 30 seconds left to go they stumble onto the road where for no apparent reason he handed his gun back to the cop and held up his hands. Very, very exciting until it wasnt anymore, then the show was over. Disappointed? Yeah, maybe... but I still remember how exciting it was and I dont remember the A-plot at all. Sometimes the emotion was more important than actually making any sense... Then Science Fiction Theatre* came on & I wasnt angry at the other show anymore (something about a lost pilot being transformed into a Pharaoh looking for his tomb... evidently the tomb was a redecorated garage - now that made sense to a 7 year old! )

Firefly24601

That's what I assumed as well.

Mark Ten

This story was rushed into Production, written in 2 days I believe and with really no previous canon to go by, I think the writer did a good job with it. The drama and tension was more important than than any rational plot line. That was often the case with 60 year old dramas.

Keith Goodnight

They don't explain explicitly, but I think the explanation for the crew's strange behavior is that the TARDIS systems (not yet expressly said to be telepathic, but implied) were beaming a feeling of "danger" at the crew as part of trying to warn them, which resulted in their paranoid behavior.

Josef Schiltz

Kat and Paula, let's not forget that, although the TARDIS is telepathic, to focus with precision upon, first, linear conterminous time and then manipulate people within it - which, to a TARDIS, is almost the smallest of items in space-time, has to be, in itself, a remarkable feat of concentration. Remember the incident of the car chase when Donna was being kidnapped by a Santa Robot. She was forever crashing and bumping into things and The Doctor said afterwards "The funny thing is, for a spaceship, she doesn't really do that much flying." Flying along a road is a small thing. For a TARDIS built to travel light years and eons, to get small things right would be like focusing upon a dust mote nestling in a sunbeam. The TARDIS is cosmically longsighted! It's hardly surprising that she gets the telepathy warnings to the crew awry with several oops moments along the way. She probably would like post-it notes with written instructions stuck to their foreheads - especially The Doctor!

Josef Schiltz

Well, yes. A tiny spring was the problem! However, there is a truth to this. The most calamitous events can be down to the most trivial and ridiculous incident.