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

Happy Anniversary, Doctor Who! Also: Happy Thanksgiving!

Nov 23 2017
Happy Anniversary, Doctor Who! Also: Happy Thanksgiving!

About a month ago I set myself a goal of weighing in at under 250 lbs before Christmas. Here it is, Thanksgiving, and this morning I weighed in at a new record low of 250.1 lbs. Yay! Of course, what with the holiday today I fully expect to bounce back up a bit tomorrow. Totally worth it, my wife is an amazing cook. If I can't fully enjoy a holiday meal with all the trimmings, then none of this has been worth anything. Today also happens to be the 54th anniversary of the first Doctor Who broadcast ever, how cool is that?

Even though it is a holiday, I didn't take the day off from the treadmill. This morning I watched the first half of a new story, so let's talk about that.

Nightmare of Eden - Parts 1 & 2

(TARDIS Data Core recap)

Today, on a Very Special Episode of Doctor Who, the Doctor learns that Drugs Are Bad, MmmmKay?

The story opens with a a starliner carrying hundreds of passengers emerging from hyperspace into orbit around the planet Azure. Unfortunately, the ship's Navigator is high as a kite on the drug vraxoin, and has not plotted the course correctly. The huge ship phases back into normal space, but in collision with another smaller vessel, and so the two become fused together. Shortly thereafter the TARDIS dematerializes inside the starliner, and the Doctor promptly involves himself first in figuring out how to separate the two ships, and then in finding and stopping the drug traffickers that are transporting the very dangerous and highly addictive drug.

Oh, and there is also a biologist on board who has collected specimens from throughout the known universe, storing them in crystallized form in a machine that struck me as being fairly similar to the Miniscope from Carnival of Monsters. Because of the unstable energy being released from the two fused spaceships, the biologist's device seems to be malfunctioning and releasing giant monsters on board the ship.


Boo!

By the end of the second episode, K9 has managed to scoot across the unstable area into the main power control room. Meanwhile, the starliner's captain has been given a spiked drink with the drug (although in all fairness the Mickey Finn was intended for Romana, which isn't creepy at all). At the cliffhanger, both the Doctor and Romana have leapt into the simulation on the biologist's storage device for the planet Eden. One presumes that there they will encounter a nightmare.

Much like I said about yesterday's viewing, this is not a bad story. It suffers from being so close to City of Death and not living up to that very high standard, but on its own merits it is decently watchable. Even the anti-drug stuff is handled reasonably well. Sure, it is clearly meant as a social message to young viewers about how dangerous drugs are, but so far it hasn't hit that note too hard. 

This story, by the way, begins the final run of stories that I do not own on disc. For the next ten days I am watching the stories streaming via BritBox. I am also, coincidentally, just repainting and rearranging our master bedroom. By the time I get to my next disc-based story, I should have my new setup in which I will have a small television mounted on the wall right in front of the treadmill and with a BluRay player connected. It should be pretty sweet.

Oh, and one other thing: Tomorrow I get to meet Pearl Mackie (Twelfth Doctor companion Bill Potts), Eve Myles (Gwen Cooper from Torchwood), and Gareth David-Lloyd (Ianto from Torchwood) to add to the autograph collection on my Time Treadmill inspiration poster. I'm pretty psyched about that!

STATS:

Doctor(s): Fourth
Companion(s): Romana, K9
Episode(s): Nightmare of Eden - Parts 1 & 2
Steps Walked: 7,321 today, 1,800,562 total
Distance Walked: 3.96 miles today, 909.10 miles total
Weight: 252.38 lbs (five day moving average), net change -54.92 lbs


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