I honestly had some doubts about actually putting the "Who Review" tag on this one, because it's not a review so much as it is my thoughts about the first two episodes, or as I like to call them, the One That Aired Right Before William Hartnell Died, and the One That Aired Right After William Hartnell Died.
See, my new year's resolution was to blog more often, but I have this thing about only watching one episode a day in order to digest it all. Having gotten through Fenric, I watched Part One of Revenge yesterday and Part Two today, and here are my thoughts about it. Yeah, it's not really a review, but nobody reads this blog anyway.
Right off the bat, I like that the plot seems to be a whole lot less complicated than Fenric's. No Viking runes, no bizarre chess allegories, no trying to figure out whose motive is what; from very early on, it's so obvious who the bad guy is that the episode flat-out tells us.
In a distinct contrast to Fenric's budget-saving measure of shooting on location, most of Revenge is shot on a set recycled from The Ark in Space, but there's also a lavish Vogon set made of gold... makes me wonder where the jewelled crabs that they smash are. Yeah, I made a Hitchhiker's joke, and yeah, it's actually "Vogan." Oh well.
So what do I think of the 70s Cybermen? Well, I can't really say, because I haven't exactly seen a lot of them. The music at the end of Part 2, when they burst in and zap everyone, Doctor included, reminded me of the Imperial March, and I actually had to remind myself that The Empire Strikes Back was still 5 years off (RIP Irvin Kershner, since I don't think I mentioned that earlier - see what I get for not blogging enough? The director of what was once my all-time favorite film dies, and I only mention it in passing, well after the fact, in a completely unrelated post). Anyway, for some reason I went into this story thinking it was a terribly weak follow up to Genesis of the Daleks, but I'm actually quite enjoying it. The scene were the Doctor threatens to let a Cybermat bite the traitor is surprisingly dark for a man who just refused to wipe out the most evil species in the Galaxy...
Ah, there I go again.
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