Classic!Who s7—Ambassadors of Death
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flowsoffireSoooo, in-between the work and the keeping up with fandom and all the productivity things, I finished Ambassadors of Death :) There has been lots of classic!Who watching admittedly, can't be productive at all times. (I need to remember that once in a while, lol.) That is how I actually get to watch one episode in a week, yes! :D
So, Ambassadors of Death was pretty good. :D The consequences I was foreseeing and all the Brigadier vs. Doctor tension never really happened, he was just staying away and working with Liz when the story began, then walked up when he realized something fishy was going on, and acted more short-tempered than usual but besides things were pretty fine. Never mind, I'm writing team tension!fic set between the eps anyway XD
At the beginning of the ep we got to see the TARDIS console, and I jumped, but no, no flying it. He gets to go in space with a good old rocket instead. But he can still freak Liz out by projecting her/himself a handful of seconds into the future aka apparently disappearing. *chuckles* I quite loved that.
Besides that, there is a plot, and a rather good one; it stays very ambiguous for a long time, one could say it's a bit slow to unfold but it remains okay, and it's intriguing that for a very long time you're not sure what the heck is going on and who are actually the bad guys. (The aliens weren't, the extremistic, paranoid/hostile humans were. The officials who were looking fishy were indeed fishy, but for We Must Save the Planet Against this Evil Menace of a Species We Don't Know reasons; good intentions, horrible mindset, general Carrington's use of the words "moral duty" was entirely over the top and I liked his ending and the Doctor kindly telling him he understood. But really he is nuts.) Also, there was shooting and wrestling; it took some episode time, I mentioned some slowness. Oh, and climbing to places and sabotaging stuff. *yawns* I love UNIT, but soldiery stuff not too much.
But I did love the pursuit when Liz got abducted, which might be proof that I am biased. She defended herself quite well, then again Liz rules. During her captivity, she was also epic and sassy and strong and managed to get the team of baddies' weak link to help her (it helped that she knew him before). So Liz is a genius, is strong, has spirit, is good at escaping when captured, hard to capture in the first place, puts up a good fight and also looks damn good in a short skirt and has thick, impractical in car pursuits, lovely hair I really felt like touching. Damn, I'll miss her. Oh, and when they got reunited, the Doctor (just awakening from a drugged sleep; he was not doing the epic rescue thing, the Brigadier did and he got told off for being late) touched her hair in the sweetest way there is, because clearly he is a man of taste.
Mostly Bessie was better than everyone at neat tricks and rescue-y things: Bessie was very relevant in Liz's pursuit, the Brigadier going to rescue Three and Liz, and Three trapping some villains by having the car go super-sticky on them while they were pushing it aside. XD Bessie is cool like that. (And she's yellow, so she gave me a who-contest entry. *grins*)
Also, Benton appeared!
Next up is Inferno, which I'm looking forward to, though it is the last of Liz. *wails* But then there is Jo Grant and the Master, so there'll likely be very little time to mourn.
Good lines:
Three: My dear fellow, I simply don't happen to have a pass! Because I don't believe in them, that's why.
Cornish: How did you know that sound was going to be repeated?
Three: By exercising my intelligence.
[Three was seriously a bit of an arsehole to Cornish at first, when the latter is a perfectly good character. He was being short-tempered and all "I am a genius, why won't you go past the fact that I just burst in on your important space operations without warning or explanations and do as I tell you?".]
Liz to her captor: It's all right. I won't hurt you.
[Brigadier comes to save the damsels in distress. There is some shooting.]
Three [yelling]: What kept you?
Brigadier: I see you're all right, Doctor. Miss Shaw?
Liz: Just get me out of here.
So, Ambassadors of Death was pretty good. :D The consequences I was foreseeing and all the Brigadier vs. Doctor tension never really happened, he was just staying away and working with Liz when the story began, then walked up when he realized something fishy was going on, and acted more short-tempered than usual but besides things were pretty fine. Never mind, I'm writing team tension!fic set between the eps anyway XD
At the beginning of the ep we got to see the TARDIS console, and I jumped, but no, no flying it. He gets to go in space with a good old rocket instead. But he can still freak Liz out by projecting her/himself a handful of seconds into the future aka apparently disappearing. *chuckles* I quite loved that.
Besides that, there is a plot, and a rather good one; it stays very ambiguous for a long time, one could say it's a bit slow to unfold but it remains okay, and it's intriguing that for a very long time you're not sure what the heck is going on and who are actually the bad guys. (The aliens weren't, the extremistic, paranoid/hostile humans were. The officials who were looking fishy were indeed fishy, but for We Must Save the Planet Against this Evil Menace of a Species We Don't Know reasons; good intentions, horrible mindset, general Carrington's use of the words "moral duty" was entirely over the top and I liked his ending and the Doctor kindly telling him he understood. But really he is nuts.) Also, there was shooting and wrestling; it took some episode time, I mentioned some slowness. Oh, and climbing to places and sabotaging stuff. *yawns* I love UNIT, but soldiery stuff not too much.
But I did love the pursuit when Liz got abducted, which might be proof that I am biased. She defended herself quite well, then again Liz rules. During her captivity, she was also epic and sassy and strong and managed to get the team of baddies' weak link to help her (it helped that she knew him before). So Liz is a genius, is strong, has spirit, is good at escaping when captured, hard to capture in the first place, puts up a good fight and also looks damn good in a short skirt and has thick, impractical in car pursuits, lovely hair I really felt like touching. Damn, I'll miss her. Oh, and when they got reunited, the Doctor (just awakening from a drugged sleep; he was not doing the epic rescue thing, the Brigadier did and he got told off for being late) touched her hair in the sweetest way there is, because clearly he is a man of taste.
Mostly Bessie was better than everyone at neat tricks and rescue-y things: Bessie was very relevant in Liz's pursuit, the Brigadier going to rescue Three and Liz, and Three trapping some villains by having the car go super-sticky on them while they were pushing it aside. XD Bessie is cool like that. (And she's yellow, so she gave me a who-contest entry. *grins*)
Also, Benton appeared!
Next up is Inferno, which I'm looking forward to, though it is the last of Liz. *wails* But then there is Jo Grant and the Master, so there'll likely be very little time to mourn.
Good lines:
Three: My dear fellow, I simply don't happen to have a pass! Because I don't believe in them, that's why.
Cornish: How did you know that sound was going to be repeated?
Three: By exercising my intelligence.
[Three was seriously a bit of an arsehole to Cornish at first, when the latter is a perfectly good character. He was being short-tempered and all "I am a genius, why won't you go past the fact that I just burst in on your important space operations without warning or explanations and do as I tell you?".]
Liz to her captor: It's all right. I won't hurt you.
[Brigadier comes to save the damsels in distress. There is some shooting.]
Three [yelling]: What kept you?
Brigadier: I see you're all right, Doctor. Miss Shaw?
Liz: Just get me out of here.
