Do you know the best way to evacuate a large city? You get very large, very fake looking dinosaurs to scare everyone. For the amount of time they spent showing us the dinosaurs, they should have made more effort into making them look realistic. I think it was more noticeable because they didn't really move, and when they did it was awkwardly at best. The first episode was merely titled "Invasion" to surprise people that it contained dinosaurs. Personally I could have done without the surprise. It wasn't a good surprise. It's one of those surprises you get when you open a can of fruit, and realize that it has gone bad.
Dinosaurs are being sent through a time machine, to terrorize London so that people will evacuate it. Then London will be sent back into a "Golden Age", an ideal time when everything was really awesome and people loved each other. The problem with this is in reality there is no "Golden Age", as the Doctor pointed out. There are bad things in every parts of history, because the people in it make it so. When exactly does this Golden Age take place?
Apparently dinosaurs aren't the only things used to terrorize London. There is that one medieval peasant.
Captain Yates was the surprise in the story. While I like that they made his character more complicated --- I mean you really can't blame his experience in the Green Death --- but I didn't like that he was on the 'bad' side, so to speak. Benton, however, will always be the good bloke.
The fake spaceship made the plot stupid. I thought it wasn't necessary making them believe that they were in space traveling to a different Earth. They all knew that they were going to a better place, so why trick them into thinking it's an entirely new planet? Maybe they wouldn't have been okay with the whole 'wiping Earth with a clean slate', or maybe they would have. Also, it wasn't very long before everyone on board started fighting and threatening to kill Sarah Jane. How long would that Utopia have lasted? Oh, and they brainwash you if you try to oppose the ideal. We're off to a great start! I really want to join this new Earth!
It's so difficult when all the high up guys are baddies. You just can't get anything done.
Wow. Nice weird car.
Next Up: Death to the Daleks
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