Classic!Who s3—The Celestial Toymaker

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Throwing in a quick post as I EVENTUALLY finished the Celestial Toymaker! Lol, I'd only started weeks ago.

The episode was pretty nice overall, I preferred the two first parts though. Hartnell was basically absent at the middle of the ep, being on holiday during the shooting invisible and mute. And since Steven and Dodo are nice enough, but not favourite companions of mine, that was a bit sad. Still, the games were very nice, I especially loved the playing cards ("We are not amused!"), and Cyril the tricky boy wasn't bad either. Some plots things felt a bit easy (at the very end I stared at the Doctor like "are you seriously going to eat something the Toymaker gave you?", same for Dodo falling for the OBVIOUS trick of Cyril pretending to be hurt to make her go help him and lose the game), but overall it was pretty nice.

I also liked the character of the Toymaker. At the beginning at least, I remember thinking he would have made an epic Time Lord, maybe even a bit better than the Meddling Monk ;) And learning his immortality, at the end, made the idea all the more interesting…

And the Gunfighters episode is ACTUALLY AVAILABLE, not a recon! XD *falls off chair* Will probably be watching that soonish.

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Ohhhh, that's right, there was a book! :D That must have been even greater… :D
*hugs* ♥