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Okay, this one was an odd one. To start with, it was a bottle show, taking place entirely on the TARDIS, apparently for budgetary reasons. Which was fine, as far as I'm concerned. Some of my favorite episodes of the various seasons of Star Trek were bottle episodes. This one for Doctor Who, though, maybe not so much.
The gist is that the spring on a button on one of the TARDIS controls was stuck, which apparently caused them to accidentally fly backwards to the beginning of the universe(?) and threatened to destroy the entire ship, and, as it turned out, the TARDIS itself was trying to warn them of what was going on, in a weird, not entirely helpful manner.
The character interactions seemed really off, to me, especially in part 1. They were all really antagonistic toward one another. Susan brandishing scissors at the others and crazily stabbing a mattress. The Doctor accusing Barbara and Ian of trying to take over his ship and then threatening to boot them out right then, regardless of where they may have happened to be. Ian grabbing The Doctor by the throat for seemingly no good reason. Barbara was pretty much the only one who didn't entirely act weirdly assholish, for the most part.
When Susan had hypothesized at one point that someone or something had entered the TARDIS and was "inside one of us," I figured that was it. Some kind of parasite was controlling them and forcing them to act out of character. I had already sort of guessed at something like that being the case even before she said it.
But, no? Apparently that wasn't the case? Apparently, they were all just being gigantic assholes to each other for seemingly no good reason, aside from something the TARDIS was doing? I mean, even taking into account that the Doctor had been acting kind of assholish from the start, this all seemed more than a bit much, even for him. I don't think the episodes came even remotely close to adequately explaining why they were all acting so hostile to each other, aside from saying "The TARDIS did it." Somehow. Maybe I just missed something.
But, anyway, then Barbara (somehow) interprets the "clues" that the TARDIS was giving them, figures out what is going on and saves the day and makes the Doctor bumble and stammer and try to apologize for the rest of the episode, before she finally accepts, and then all is well and back to normal. Apparently?
Anyway, this is also the first hint that the TARDIS itself is alive, in some way (aside from Ian's "It's alive!" when he touched it in the first episode of the first serial). It's something I already pretty much knew to be the case from having watched the first (Christopher Eccleston) season of the modern show, so that wasn't too awfully surprising or anything.
The music in these two episodes had a rather Silent Hill-ish feel to it, at times.
The gist is that the spring on a button on one of the TARDIS controls was stuck, which apparently caused them to accidentally fly backwards to the beginning of the universe(?) and threatened to destroy the entire ship, and, as it turned out, the TARDIS itself was trying to warn them of what was going on, in a weird, not entirely helpful manner.
The character interactions seemed really off, to me, especially in part 1. They were all really antagonistic toward one another. Susan brandishing scissors at the others and crazily stabbing a mattress. The Doctor accusing Barbara and Ian of trying to take over his ship and then threatening to boot them out right then, regardless of where they may have happened to be. Ian grabbing The Doctor by the throat for seemingly no good reason. Barbara was pretty much the only one who didn't entirely act weirdly assholish, for the most part.
When Susan had hypothesized at one point that someone or something had entered the TARDIS and was "inside one of us," I figured that was it. Some kind of parasite was controlling them and forcing them to act out of character. I had already sort of guessed at something like that being the case even before she said it.
But, no? Apparently that wasn't the case? Apparently, they were all just being gigantic assholes to each other for seemingly no good reason, aside from something the TARDIS was doing? I mean, even taking into account that the Doctor had been acting kind of assholish from the start, this all seemed more than a bit much, even for him. I don't think the episodes came even remotely close to adequately explaining why they were all acting so hostile to each other, aside from saying "The TARDIS did it." Somehow. Maybe I just missed something.
But, anyway, then Barbara (somehow) interprets the "clues" that the TARDIS was giving them, figures out what is going on and saves the day and makes the Doctor bumble and stammer and try to apologize for the rest of the episode, before she finally accepts, and then all is well and back to normal. Apparently?
Anyway, this is also the first hint that the TARDIS itself is alive, in some way (aside from Ian's "It's alive!" when he touched it in the first episode of the first serial). It's something I already pretty much knew to be the case from having watched the first (Christopher Eccleston) season of the modern show, so that wasn't too awfully surprising or anything.
The music in these two episodes had a rather Silent Hill-ish feel to it, at times.
