The Doctor falls in a hole!

[zustifer]

Doctor Who, season 13, episodes 5-9: Planet of Evil. (BBC).

The Doctor and Sarah Jane land on some planet, where there's a scientific investigation of some sort of energy source (which turns out to be ANTIMATTER!). People die mysteriously. The planet is pretty nice-looking, for once.

Sarah Jane is surprised. She is wearing an outfit that I can imagine my mother making me wear at about age seven.


A professor is 'possessed' by 'antimatter' and kills a lot of guys by draining their precious moisture.


I am increasingly convinced that this is in part a homage to Forbidden Planet.


(the monster is done in a blue-screen find-edges version of the invisible-but-outlined Monster from the Id, and the sound effects are awfully reminiscent of the thereminny score. There is no Dr. Morbius, Krell, or Altaira though.)


Aquabats - Anti-Matter

Comments

[diaryarena.livejournal.com]

Oh! CIRCUS PEANUTS is a thing. I thought his head was stuffed first with circus, then with peanuts. I GET IT.

[sanspoof.livejournal.com]

Wow, duh.
Fixed!

(It's not like that picture was worth it... I almost didn't post it, because it's not very good. It is accurate though.)

[diaryarena.livejournal.com]

I like how his cheek-pouches have circus peanuts in 'em!!

[jwgh]

Aw, this doesn't appear to be on netflix yet! This episode sounds vaguely familiar but I'm not sure if I've actually seen it. Sarah Jane had a lot of weirdly childlike outfits, I think -- maybe that's all she could find in the TARDIS.

That is a good rendering of Tom Baker.

I hope you watch 'Face of Evil' sometime, because I want to see what you make of a planet inhabited by dozens of Chuck Norrises.

[sanspoof.livejournal.com]

AAAAAGH
AAAAAAAGH
AAAAAAAGH

[jwgh]

You also get to see Leela for the first time!

[myownwench.livejournal.com]

That picture is more like Tom Baker than Tom Baker actually is. Very excellent.

Also, I am way pleased that you are now doing up Doctor Who, having relatively recently gotten in to it.

[sanspoof.livejournal.com]

Well, we haven't really settled on a Thing to Watch Next, so we are just sort of looking at whatever we have lying around. Not sure how many Dr. Whos are in the future of my crummy doodling, but we shall surely see.
I never realised before today that David Tennant looks a lot like David Bowie in this live 'Oh! You Pretty Things' video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBQ-S6njQQw).

[graydon.livejournal.com]

It is absolutely an homage to forbidden planet.

[sanspoof.livejournal.com]

...I see that in the BBC page I linked, they, uh, kind of mention that. D'oh.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Ripping off major movies and other pop-cultural properties is a time-honored Doctor Who tradition.