The Time Warrior

[Kit]

I'm starting off my Sarah Marathon of Awesome in preparation for series two of SJA with Sarah's very first serial, The Time Warrior.


Lol at Mr Grumpypants

I will have the star!

Horsies!

Lookit the ‘star’!

Hee. Flags.
Earth just got pwn’d.

=D Doctor and Brig!

O m’gads, not people! =O

Foreshadowing!

Lol, muskets.

IT’S SARAH! =D

Doktar sees what u did thar, Sarah.

Let it be Known: Sarah makes Coffee for No One.

‘I know nothing!’ was not the right answer.

Sarah is a spy!

Delta particles!

Aren’t people of the male and female variety not supposed to room together? Even if there are cubicles…

Doctor sleeps funny.

Mystery of the vanishing professor Rubeish.

Y halo that Sontaran apparition-thing.

Sarah’s hiding from the Brig.

OH MY GIDDY AUNT! =D Brilliant, Brig.

Stowawaying!

Absolutely on target. For once.

Sarah ish a stowaway.
I do love her first costume, though.

KIDNAPPING!

Now the Doctor has to save Sarah. Little does he know, it shall happen many more times after this.

=O Potato head!

OOO WEE OOO!

Recap.

Let me take my helmet off for one second just to put it back in.

There are many kennings in this.

I think Sarah just snuck off—oh. Never mind.

‘It’s a tourist place! =D But really, you’re overdoing it.’

Dude, stop touching Sarah.

You should change your reproductive system. xD

xD Lol at robot-thing.

Sarah is sneaking off.

Y halo thar, Doktar.

Crossbow!

xD Headless robot-thing.

I found those scientists you were looking for.

That door looks really fake.

O M’GADS, YOU LOOK NOT-HUMAN.

Well, bugger.

In other words, she speaks funny.

xD ‘Her words are strange, but I understand her meaning.’

I think archery-bloke fancies her.

Aw, poor Doctor.

xD ‘I’m just a tourist, I like it here.’

Hehe, funny hat.

xD ‘I’ve got to go and find a young girl.’

xD Three runs circles around the eight extras.

OOO WEE OOO!

Long recap…

Doctor runs funny.

Thanks for rescuing me.
Oh, you’ve got it all wrong. We’re capturing you.

Aw, poor Jon and his nose.

I never lie. Well, hardly ever.

UNIT and its awesomeness is overwhelming.

Doktar ish magical.

Oh, didn’t I tell you? I’m not human.

They are so enjoying themselves. Despite the whole we-could-possibly-die factor. But then, that’s how it always is.

Hee! Sarah’s jumping to see over the wall. Like me.

WINE, I NEED WINE!

Totally noticed that stare there, Doctor + Sarah.

A CUNNING PLAN, I HAS IT.
Blackadder FTW!

Hee, Monks.

Let it be noted that Sarah has changed clothes yet again.

Flashlight!

Quick, hide! The potato head is here!

OOO WEEE OOO!

Well, at least there’s a good reason that hitting Sontarans there knocks them out.

Sneaky!Sarah is sneaky.

You know when the camera does a close-up that someone’s about to sneak up on them.

You will damage my circuits! xD

My face might give you a seizure! xDDD

Men do own the world at this time, Sarah.

Women’s lib didn’t happen for quite a while after this, Sarah.

LOOK, A SPIDER!!1
AHHHHHH!

Don’t touch the Doctor’s coat!

Those weren’t tied very tightly.

Lol at bad aim.

Look, she’s changed again!

They rather fail at firing muskets.

xD Three is rather brilliant.

Archery-bloke is just following Sarah. For he fancies her.

Aw, poor scientist people.

I think he’s drunk. All that wine he likes so much.

So funny. A real knee-slapper there. Who knows what a frog thinks. Ha. Ha.

Doctor did a flip!

Nice aim there, archery-bloke.

Running!

Kaboom.

And it’s over!

[magnusgreel]

I always like your comments, kit, though I'm sorry I can't get into the spirit of them today. Robert Holmes (writer) is great. This is the start of the Tom era a little early, I think. Holmes was the best at combining past and future, and dark humor, and at adding really intriguing backstory, which really fleshed out the world of DW. The Sontarans are my favorite 'enemy'.

[jjpor]

Yeah, I'm a big-time Robert Holmes fan, and also love the Sontarans (well, I did have ol' Linx as my screenie until recently). There's something about their pompous militarism that appeals to me; I'm quite partial to villains who are stupid (not that Linx is stupid, exactly, certainly not compared to some of the latter-day Sontarans who came after him), while still remaining threatening, and I think it's a difficult thing to pull off.

I also love the way they always, but always, do that take-off-the-helmet-reveal thing, as if anybody is going to be surprised by it! As if there's some other bunch of five-foot-nothing Napoleons marching round the galaxy in big, domy helmets

And that probic vent must be a bit inconvenient on the battlefield - they really need some sort of protective cover over that, LOL.

Oh, and the chap who plays whatshisname the archer, is none other than Boba Fett of Star Wars fame (well, the guy inside Boba Fett's costume, anyway).

[primsong]

Love Time Warrior - what a grand introduction for Sarah too, that she gets to run about in fun old castles all scattered about with hay. Her initial suspicion of the Doctor as being the one who's been kidnapping the scientists was interesting, we forget that not everyone can immediately know he's a Good Guy - I liked that they had a nod to that.

Some great moments in this one, the disguising as monks thing, Three in armor!, the wonderful Toss-the-Bag game he plays, setting them on fire and flinging them over his shoulders to the invaders below, and (again) his astonishment that Sarah would think he was killing them with his little concoctions instead of merely getting them to go away. ("What do you take me for?!")

That myopic fellow, Rubeisher (sp??) was a wonderful character, I would've enjoyed him as a regular to bump around in the lab if they'd kept him. That whole "Are you wearing a hat?" thing, heh.... and the way he just rolls along with the punches in spite of the situation. Good man. Very enjoyable.

[magnusgreel]

Every Holmes story is supposed to have a pair of semi-comic characters with their own little story... I suppose that would be Irongron and his sidekick, who was a very well-done idiot, funny, almost surrealistically stupid, but believable for the times, not the kind of glaring, wacky anachronism they like to use on TV too often, for the purpose of comedy relief in period stories.

In the 70s, more realistic and less "glamorous" period stories were being made, and I like this. Doctor Who and Holmes were doing this too, maybe more than others were. I love this approach far more than the suffocating bombardment of "glamorous" period atmosphere we get in something like "The Shakespeare Code".

[jjpor]

Dec 3, 2008 8:57:41 GMT magnusgreel said:

Doctor Who and Holmes were doing this too, maybe more than others were. I love this approach far more than the suffocating bombardment of "glamorous" period atmosphere we get in something like "The Shakespeare Code".

I'm sort of imagining The Shakespeare Code as it might have been written by Robert Holmes; probably a bit funnier, for one thing; grimier certainly. And almost certainly would have involved Tom Baker breaking into Iambic Pentameter at some point...

[magnusgreel]

Iambic Pentameter... I'll have to find out what that is sometime. John Lennon was told he was using it in songs, and he had no idea what they were talking about.

I think Holmes would have had a somewhat firmer science-fiction basis for the story, even if it did have to do with witches and numerology or whatever it was about.

[Kit]

Iambic pentameter is a type of meter that is used in poetry and drama. It describes a particular rhythm that the words establish in each line. That rhythm is measured in small groups of syllables; these small groups of syllables are called "feet". The word "iambic" describes the type of foot that is used. The word "pentameter" indicates that a line has five of these "feet". Shakespeare is famous for this method of writing in his plays.

=D

[jjpor]

Dec 12, 2008 14:31:14 GMT Kit said:

Iambic pentameter is a type of meter that is used in poetry and drama. It describes a particular rhythm that the words establish in each line. That rhythm is measured in small groups of syllables; these small groups of syllables are called "feet". The word "iambic" describes the type of foot that is used. The word "pentameter" indicates that a line has five of these "feet". Shakespeare is famous for this method of writing in his plays.

=D

Or, as I was taught in long-ago English classes: "de-dum, de-dum, de-dum, de-dum, de-dum". ;D

[primsong]

A thought we had while showing this particular ep to a young friend we are in the process of converting to a rabid Three-fan (and it's working, heh heh heh heh) was - what about the drudgy kitchen-women? Did anyone get them out or did they go up with the castle? 0_0 Somehow I don't think 'women's lib' meant liberating their innards from their outards...

[clocketpatch]

They escaped into a plothole. It was a daring escape, and they lost a few of their number since they had to dodge the Daleks which frequent plotholes (their natural habitat).

The plothole led to the Centre of the Earth and then the poor drudgery women just had to climb out (dodging more Daleks of course, not to mention the green werewolves and the Racnos babies, and then... well, I think they were free to go after that. Though it was a bit of a time. They were telling their grandchildren about it for years!

[primsong]

"Eh, what's that? A giant pepper-pot? Well, bring it over here, this stew needs more pepper."

Rarrrrrr! Snarl, snorff snorff.

"Oh no you don't!" (smacks with spoon). "You green werewolves need to wait for it to be done, same as the rest! Darn things always shedding.... worse than old Irongron in the spring..."

[magnusgreel]

Jan 3, 2009 5:15:46 GMT clocketpatch said:

They escaped into a plothole. It was a daring escape, and they lost a few of their number since they had to dodge the Daleks which frequent plotholes (their natural habitat).

The plothole led to the Centre of the Earth and then the poor drudgery women just had to climb out (dodging more Daleks of course, not to mention the green werewolves and the Racnos babies, and then... well, I think they were free to go after that. Though it was a bit of a time. They were telling their grandchildren about it for years!

What an exciting world of adventure those drudges experienced. Now I want to be a drudge.

[primsong]

Stunt Muppet just did a lovely and amusing picspam of Time Warrior on LiveJournal and aside from the amusing and clever commentary of her own I found another little gem - when Rubiesh absently scribbles on the TARDIS, the chalk math-doodling is rubbed out but still faintly visible in subsequent shots.

Howerver, in the one she capped just before the Doctor leaves (the Brig is discussing with him his inability to steer it) you can see the chalk smudge again - and it's changed to "JON", rubbed out. LOLOL!