2.7 The Space Museum


I hate this episode. I hope it gets lost some day soon.

You know if they had just skipped the whole 'time track' mess, they could have easily whittled this down to three chapters, meaning less noisy complaining from people like me.

I don't get the whole time track nonsense, and you'll probably have to explain it to me a few more times before I do.  All I know is that they saw their future selves in little boxes, and they had to find a way to keep that from happening.  Ultimate time travel/future self/I don't know what the heck just happened stuff.

The TARDIS lands on the planet Xerox, I mean Xeron [who comes up with these names] and the four enter a Space Museum which is owned and run by aliens called Moroks.  [They studied with the Klingons.] These Moroks are bad, bad guys.  They wear funny white outfits and have fancy receding hairlines. They are oppressing the natives on this planet.  [I feel faint from all this thinking.]  These Xerons are males between the ages of 18-20, wear black and have plucked eyebrows.   I'm sure there were female Xerons, but all we get to see are these troubled young rebels. Now that I think about it, there weren't any females in this except for Barbs and Tricky Vicki.

 
Lobos is the curator of the museum, and he was obviously put there because the other Moroks knew him to be a bit off his rocker.  "Oh that's loony Lobos. Let's put him in charge of our museum so he can't cause any more trouble."


In the beginning, Ian finds a machine gun and pretends to shoot the Doctor.  The Doctor is not amused.  Since when has Ian gone from mild mannered science teacher, to Bruce Willis????  And he refuses to put the gun back and begins to carry it about!  At one point, he hands it over to Vicki.  Why are you giving a gun to a child?


There are a couple scenes in which Barbs and Ian are having a verbal argument and Vicki is just staring at them in a strange way. 


As usual, everyone gets separated, and they have to rescue each other.  We get a fine scene with Ian using Barbs' sweater to leave a trail for the Doctor to find.  Between you and me, he just wanted to see her without her sweater on.


Barb and Vicki get separated, and Vicki is saved by the rebel boys.  I've noticed this about Vicki that doesn't amuse me whatsoever. They are still endeavoring to pull her off as a teenage child.  It just doesn't work for me. She's obviously well into her adulthood and why replace Susan when she didn't work out as a teenage child, either.  It's lucky for us that the rebels are Vicki's age, because they get to have some adolescent moments together that make you want to strangle yourself. She makes fun of their little ways, and they don't get mad at her because she is their age. I guess. 

Barb gets the stupid scene award, when she and one of the rebels are locked in a room.  The Moroks flood the room with gas to draw them out.  She spends a good 10 minutes in this gassed room, before she finally falls over in a heap after much gasping and choking and you assume she is dead.  In the following chapter, she wakes up --- while the chamber is still full of fumes ---- and spends another 5 minutes or so rolling about before she finally escapes the room.  There is no way she could have survived this. No. Way. 

Well, Ian gets to fight a bunch of bad guys and of course, wins.  There is no way that Ian is this awesome.  Or is there?

We are awarded with a silly scene in which the Doctor is running from the bad guys, and he climbs into an empty Dalek shell.  *giggle* David Tennant would NEVER do such a thing!


The Xeron rebels defeat the Moroks and the Doctor and his companions escape to the TARDIS and take off.  The end scene shows the Daleks tracking their departure, with the promise to exterminate the doctor and his friends. 

Cliffhanger!

Next Up: The Chase

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