Ugh.
We knew it wouldn't be very long before they would find some way to get the Doctor onto a freaking weird planet. And they managed to get the Master in this one, too. Way to kill two birds with one stone. Not that they really needed to go off and kill the birds. The birds were just fine the way they were.
Hey did yah hear that Crazy Joey Masterson Superkiller Devilton is planning on blowing up mankind with the Doomsday Weapon?"
"Wait, haven't we gone through this before? I guess we should send Doctor Smitey-Smith-Snodder to Uxariean so he can thwart Master Joe's Masterplan."
"Do what now?"
So, the Time Lords grant the Doctor temporary ability to use the TARDIS, and send him to the planet Uxariean to thwart the Master's evil plan. Couldn't they have just saved everyone a bunch of trouble, and snatched up the Master themselves? Or do they really get their jollies watching the Doctor and the Master exchange verbal blows for all eternity? Well, they don't bother telling the Doctor why he's on the planet either, they just let him figure it out for himself, which is really strange. Last time they sent Mr. Mcnee to warn him. Maybe we're supposed to expect that the Master will be in this episode, too and that isn't a good thing.
Jo has a massive freak out when she discovers that they are no longer on Earth. I was quite cross until I realized that she has never left Earth in the TARDIS before. Poor thing. But I found this annoying because we had to go through all the "We're in space!" dialogue that we always get with a new companion. She doesn't like it, either. I think she lands in the 'accidental' companion category. I don't really like her on another planet, when she is out of her comfort zone. She was irritating in this one. I guess little children would like her.
The IMC is corrupt and full of mean-spirited trolls. The colony is full of slow dim-witted folk. Have we seen this before? Earth doesn't seem very nice, so the 'Puritans' are trying to escape to smashed uninhabitable rock planets to live in peace. Anything's better than Earth! Instead of the Native Americans, we have the Uxariean primitives, who are marvelously short sighted. The primitives happen to have the Doomsday Weapon in their possession. When one does not have T.V., one builds Doomsday Weapons.
When the colonists and the IMC go head to head over the planet's resources, they decide to call in an Adjudicator, who just happens to be the Master. Boy does he get irritated when he realizes the Doctor is there. The Doctor and the Master exchange verbal blows, as the Master has faked his identity to get to the planet, and steal the Doomsday Weapon from the Uxariean primitives.
I feel like they're finding ways in which to integrate the Master into the show. Of course he wants the Doomsday Weapon, because he wants to blow up creation for no particular reason. You'd think he'd change sometimes, and stop wanting to create mass destruction wherever he goes.
It seems like the writers are running out of plots to keep the Doctor on Earth, so they're sending him away on various 'missions'. I like the Earth plot, and I hope they stay with that for a little while longer at least. I like that they are developing side characters, such as Benton, because the 'being on Earth' plot has been continuous. When the Doctor was traveling through space, they had to quickly develop characters for a plot, and then you would never see those characters again no matter how interesting, dull or complicated they were.
The Doomsday Weapon is responsible for all the trouble that the Uxariean primitives have experienced, so the Doctor convinces the Guardian to blow it up, so that it will no longer have such an evil effect on the natives, the colonists and the planet. Once the Doomsday Weapon is destroyed, the land will supposedly become habitable for the colonists. The IMC is held responsible for its illegal behavior, the colonists can live on the planet again, and the primitives...well...they mostly die. It's a good ending.
So who hates the karate moves that the Doctor knows, and the two fingers on the chest that overpowers people in a matter of seconds? He even makes the karate noises when he chops them to the ground. This is one part of the Doctor I absolutely do not like.
WHAT....THE......HECK!!!!!
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