Aug
31
2017
Yes, I watched the second half of The Time Warrior today. Yes, it is a quarter to midnight and I want to go to bed. So let's keep this short.
The Time Warrior - Parts 3 & 4
(TARDIS Data Core recap)
The Doctor convinces Sarah Jane Smith that he is not the bad guy. Together they help a neighboring castle ward off an invasion by Irongron by using dummies to boost the apparent size of the castle fighting force and by building stink bombs to scare off the invading force. Eventually they sneak back into Irongron's castle, rescue the kidnapped scientists, dispatch the Sontaran warrior Linx, and evacuate the castle before Linx' spaceship blows up and destroys the entire structure. Exit the Doctor and Sarah Jane in the TARDIS.
To me, the most interesting thing is that, although Sarah Jane stowed away on the TARDIS at the beginning of the story and then travels away in it again with the Doctor at the end, there are no filmed scenes of her actually inside the TARDIS. In other words, she never gets her "bigger on the inside" moment. Honestly, though, she just seems to practical and level-headed to be particularly thrown by the existence of a time-traveling dimensionally transcendental phone box.
And at nearly midnight, that's all the thought I can put into this tonight. I'm sure I'll have more to say about tomorrow's story. what with the big Captain Yates twist (dun dun DUNNN!!!)
STATS:
Doctor(s): Third
Companion(s): Sarah Jane Smith, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Episode(s): The Time Warrior - Parts 3 & 4
Steps Walked: 6,125 today, 1,232,993 total
Distance Walked: 2.99 miles today, 608.78 miles total
Weight: 261.20 lbs (five day moving average), net change -46.10 lbs