One fat geek's SUCCESSFUL attempt to regenerate into a not-so-fat geek by watching the entirety of Doctor Who while walking on a treadmill

So Tired...

Jul 23 2017
So Tired...

Ugh. Just, seriously... ugh. I am so tired. I barely got any sleep last night, my (adult autistic) son was up half the night, and if he wasn't keeping me awake then my dog was. Not surprisingly, my time spent on the treadmill was not awesome. I did watch the first two episodes of The Claws of Axos, but it was mostly at a slow stumble. This is going to be a very brief post.

The Claws of Axos - Episodes 1 & 2

(TARDIS Data Core recap)

On the upside: good golly this is just some prime Classic Who. It's got everything - a short-sighted senior official making awful decisions for short-sighted reasons, a living alien ship crash landing in an English rock quarry, gold-skinned bug-eyed aliens, rubber monsters, and at one point a blobby alien thing that is clearly just a studio hand trying to look menacing by writhing around underneath a multi-colored blanket. Oh, and of course because it is this season, it also has the Master skulking around up to no good. I loved how, at one point they had to throw in a line about the spaceship causing "freak weather conditions" because during their location filming some scenes had snow on the ground and others didn't, so they needed to hand-wave away the continuity issues.

Plot-wise, it is mostly about these aliens offering a fantastic bit of technology to Earth in exchange for fuel for their organic spaceship, but in reality it is a ploy to enable them to harvest everything valuable from the Earth and then destroy it. It is also only a four-parter, so the plot elements just zip right along. I am going to take a flyer and guess that in tomorrow's viewing the Earth will ultimately not be destroyed.

Also coming tomorrow: One million steps!!

STATS:

Doctor(s): Third
Companion(s): Jo Grant, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Episode(s): The Claws of Axos - Episodes 1 & 2
Steps Walked: 5,839 today, 995,315 total
Distance Walked: 2.78 miles today, 486.63 miles total
Weight: 267.38 lbs (five day moving average), net change -39.92 lbs


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