This was strange because I didn't like this episode in the beginning, but I really enjoyed it as it progressed. By the end I was wondering how it would end.
No reconstructions. I feel warmth, butterflies and sunshine on my face. No more dark forests of reconstructions. For now.
Let me just say that it took a few minutes for me to get past the strange outfits and see-through dresses. The Dulcian men were dressed in dowdy, frilly outfits that either touched the floor or were mini-skirt length. The Dulcian women wore gauzy dresses that seemed more like lingerie than anything else. Between Jamie's kilt and Cully's skirt, it was inevitable that we would see undergarments. Zoe's shoulder strap kept slipping down, and it seemed unintentional. So, thanks for all that. My brain has officially been fried with the image of Cully's underwear. This makes me want to shrivel up and die.
The Dominator's outfits were not as bad. We joked about how the arms and legs looked to be made of hundreds of post-it notes.
Note to self, "Be really mean to others."
Note to self again, "I'm not sure where my sandwich went; I will have my revenge."
Note to self yet again: "2 + 2 = 4."
Big chicken heads would have made their costumes complete.
About the episode: As much as I was distracted by the look, I did very much enjoy the episode. I got involved in it, so to speak. The thing that I liked the most was that Troughton pretended to be an idiot. Of course he isn't, and it was amusing watching him trick the Dominators through much of the episode.
I'm a nerd, because whenever I heard the name "Quark", I think of the Ferengi in Deep Space Nine. Nerd.
The Quarks were supposed to be the next big thing. However they were difficult to understand and they did not move well. Also they couldn't climb hills. That's a serious inconvenience. The bar was raised when they created the Daleks, so the creators have to work awfully hard to top that. They are more like the Chumblies of the world. I also didn't think the Quarks had much personality, other than they did the bidding of the Dominators. How is that epic? I think they're trying to create a robot-like creature for the viewers to like, but I think it would be difficult to create a robot that stands out from all other robots out there.
It was also amusing to me that the Doctor and the other slaves had these secret conversations with the Quarks standing right there. Quarks can hear can't they? Wouldn't they anticipate the Doctor's next move? They really are dumber than we thought.
I'm not sure if they used little people inside the Quark bodies or if they were children. I was concerned when Jamie and Cully started killing them left and right. Oh no! Those were children, you know! You killed the children!
Cully is the rebellious son, who does things against his father's wishes. The strange thing about it is that Cully is a middle-aged balding guy. Don't they usually give those kind of roles to young people? Anyway, I liked him despite his twirling skirt, and he and Jamie took great pleasure in running up and down hills, outwitting the Quarks. I didn't think Cully could keep up with Jamie, but he did.
There was a lot of quarreling between the two Dominators, so I couldn't imagine what they would be like if there were several of them running around. Maybe they only had enough costume budget for two. One of the Dominators seemed to have more common sense than the other. Toba seemed to have a real bee in his bonnet --- well he was pretty much insane --- and they were both so dour and angry all the time. We didn't see them during their lunch hour, so maybe they were only like that when the camera is rolling.
Toba: Why did the rooster cross the road?
Rago: Why?
Toba: To prove he wasn't a chicken!
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! That's a funny one, Toba!"
The Dulcians were very Thal-like. The council sat around the entire time talking about what they should do, what they shouldn't do, what they wanted to do, and what they couldn't do. In fact, mostly what they did was nothing at all.
There were a few Dulcians that the Dominators captured as slaves on the island. The Dominators were more than a little strange when they captured the slaves. First they studied them inside a tanning booth, and then they made the slaves carry large rocks about until they dropped from exhaustion. This was all a test to see if the Dulcians would make spectacular slaves. They failed the test, though. The Dominators concluded that they were all stupid, fat and lazy. I want to see the Dominators go up against the Daleks or the Cybermen. The Dominators would lose! That would amuse me to no end.
My expert viewer didn't understand why I was angry that this was all supposedly occurring on an island, but there were no bodies of water to be seen. At least show me an acid pool or something.
The only thing I really did not like was the speed in which they dug the tunnel. That was some mighty fast tunneling. They didn't seem to have any tools to dig said tunnel. My expert viewer said that most likely many hours had passed, but I really didn't get that impression. Tunnels are enormously difficult to build. I also didn't realize that Troughton's screwdriver was an elevated blow torch. That was weird! I'm sure Troughton built it for that purpose. "In case I need to dig a tunnel, I've got this!"
Throwing the atomic bomb on board the ship was outrageously unkind. Now there are two fewer Dominators and quite a few missing Quarks in the universe. Do you think the other Dominators will be outraged by this and want revenge?
Next Up: The Mind Robber
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