War Games 5

The War Chief's people are the only ones with the knowledge of space-time travel. Hrm. (This isn't true; we've seen the Daleks do it in The Chase.)

I love the bickering between the War Chief and the Security Chief.

And for the worst part of the episode: How did Zoe learn the names of the resistance members? She was only shown their face...

Also, the interrogator hat looks friggin redonkulous.

And why is there no 21st century time zone? Humanity clearly doesn't wipe itself out...

Von Weich looks awfully happy for a guy who has to be expecting to get shot for triggering that message. Also, the War Chief orders the Security Chief to leave Zoe, and then blames him when she escapes. Carstairs clonking the guard when he's got his gun pointed at the Doctor isn't such a great idea either.

So Troughton gets to manipulate people some more and Carstairs gets freed and Jamie gets shot by people in absurd rubber suits. The shift in style here is interesting; there's more running around and setup for organizing a resistance, but all the important information comes to us from the War and Security Chiefs, and not when any good guys are present (indeed, aside from that brief flash of recognition in the previous episode, Troughton and Bryshaw haven't shared a scene yet). We the audience now know more than the Doctor does - there is a War Lord, for example. Most of the time, we're finding out the plot right along side him.

There's one other point that I need to make, one that contradicts some of the things I said in earlier posts because I didn't do the research. Up until this serial, the implication was that the Doctor built his TARDIS himself, The Time Meddler notwithstanding. Furthermore, the Monk's TARDIS looks an awful lot like the Doctor's, whereas these "green" machines don't have any interior resemblance. So what I'm saying is that it's entirely feasible that no one got it yet.