So I just wrapped up Doctor Who season 2, and I have to say it is amazing
what was put into the episodes then.  It is easy to see why Doctor Who is
such the hit that it is today.

	To recap what I have seen so far, here are my thoughts on it.

Doctor Who Season 1 -
==The Unearthly Child== -
Susan speaking - "OMG!!  You are all backwards in your thinking, that
isn't how it is done... geez it is confusing being a transfer student from
Gallifrey to Earth.   People thought Metric to Standard conversion was bad,
Gallifrey to Earth is worse!!  Ahhh!!"

Ian to Barbara (sounding a lot like Danger Mouse) "you know, this girl
is REALLY odd.  As teachers we need to talk to her guardian."

They follow the weird child, Susan Foreman, to a junk yard and meet up with
the Doctor.

Ian "So you are Doctor Foreman"
Doctor "Doctor Who?"

And things just get weirder from there.  Doctor proves that the TARDIS can
travel in time, but... oh yeh, he can't control where it lands. They go to
1 million BC, and in the early days the Doctor is a hermited, selfish man. 
Ian is actually the curious, selfless proto Doctor, and with his quick
thinking actually gets them out of the earlier jams.

==The Daleks==
So the crew stops on a planet in their random journey.  The Doctor removes
a part from his TARDIS since he wants to explore a nearby city and says
that he needs to go to the nearst city to get a replacement mercury fluid
link.   Come to find out, it is a city with the Daleks and they are on
Skaro.   The Daleks are fairly withdrawn in that episode, being creatures
powered through the metal plating in the floor and unable to leave their
city.  After meeting the Doctor they get a hankering to leave their fair
city and expanding.

Way to go Doctor.   Ian saves them again.

==Edge of Destruction==
Funny thing, don't remember this episode.

==Marco Polo==
All reconstructed from audio with photo shots.  Some think this is painful
to get through, but I loved it.  The Doctor is still selfish, and Ian is
still more the Doctor we come to know than the Doctor himself, but the
Doctor starts to get clever and actually plays the Empiror in a game of
chess (or something like it) and wins back his ownb TARDIS.

==The Keys of Marinus==
Move over "Keys of Time", this adventure takes the TARDIS crew
and other friends along the way through some interesting worlds as they try
to get the components together for a device that will mentally enforce
justice on a planet.   Was actually a lot of fun to watch.

==The Aztecs==
being a fan of native American cultures, I loved this one.   Especially
where the Doctor gets mistakeningly engaged to an established (but retired)
woman after she shares a cup of coco with him.  Then that sly dog milks
that for all it's worth to get his TARDIS crew out of the jam they were in.
  Barbara being worshipped, Ian as a Aztec warrior and gets in a sword
fight with another warrior at the top of the temple... great stuff!

==The Sensorites==
This story takes a bizarre turn from how it starts, so I will not say much,
but loved it!

==The Reign of Terror==
The French revolution!!   It is funny watching the Doctor trade some items
and forge some papers to get himself regarded as a higher official and then
BS his way through most of the episode.  Just greatness.  :)

SEASON 2
==Planet of the Giants==
Due to the door blowing on the TARDIS the crew is compressed to the size of
bugs basically.  So they go around Earth trying to figure out a murder and
get the murderer caught while they can barely get around and understand the
much larger people around them.   A fun episode.   Pity, they make it Earth
and finally have the way to get Barbara and Ian back and they wrong scale. 
Had to suck for them.

==The Dalek Invasion of Earth==
The Daleks get bold and decide to take over Earth, scoop out the core and
give it a candy center... no wait, that was invader Zim... but the concept
is about the same, only I think in this case the Daleks wanted to make a HQ
and ship out of the Earth.   Anyway, wasn't easy but the Daleks were
thwated.  It was funny how Ian thought to slide a sizable beam into the
shoot where the bomb heading to the core would be going, stops that up
nicely.  Again, Ian was basically the Doctor in these earlier episodes. 
Susan falls in love, so the Doctor locks her out of the TARDIS and strands
her in the 2140 (?) Earth to get hitched figuring that it would be
difficult to find someone crazy enough to fall for her in all space and
time.  She acted about 14, was probably more like 18.. so one of those you
look at and go "Well she was kinda a hottie... but she is SUSAN the
Doctor's grand daughter!!  Is she supposed to be attractive?"  Well,
apparently someone thought so, and the Doctor fled before the guy had a
chance to change his mind.  (Actually the Doctor was quite fond of Susan
and thanked her for taking care of him, but kicks her out to start her own
life.)  Touching, and the farewell speech is later featured in "The
Five Doctors" special.

==The Rescue==
So Susan is gone, and the Doctor, Barbara, and Ian race through the stars
missing her but glad she has a life of her own now (a long time wish of
Susan).  So they exchange one teenager type to another as they pick up
Vicki in this episode.   Great story.

==The Romans==
Like the Reign of Terror, the Doctor fakes being another important person,
squats in a senator's house while they are gone, drinks their drinks and
eats their food, and then hob knobs as a famous musician while hanging out
with Nero.   Luckily the Doctor also knows how to BS his way out of playing
a harp (which he can't play), and manages to evade being thrown to the
lions when his BSing works a little too well.  A really fun epsiode!

==The Web Planet==
OMG... shoot me... shoot me now.  I mean great story, but the sound effects
of the insects talking nearly drive you nuts into the second part and it is
a six parter.  Arrrgg!!

==The Crusade==
Parts of this had to be reconstructed, but it was cool how they got the
actor who played Ian to introduce the episode (as Ian) and recant memories
of his journey with the Doctor.  Overall, good story.

==The Space Museum==
A really great story.  You really start to see the Doctor flesh out to
final proportions to the Doctor we are used to in this one (not that he
wasn't brilliant before).  The Doctor hides in a Dalek to get away and even
has fun acting like a Dalek.  Fun episode.

==The Chase==
I watched this years ago and didn't like it.   Now that I have been
watching these in order, I have to say really good, fun... cheesy.  I loved
the robot battle in the end.  Wow.

==The Time Meddler==
The meddling monk.  Yeh, he was too much a baffoon to have been the master.
 Anyway, fun episode.

And that's that, now on to season three... which seems to sadly be over
half as reconstructions.  :(   But at least we have audio tracks!!


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