1:13 A early version of the Sontar signal I see. 4:56 I love the Doctor's out of the box thinking. I think the show is at it's best when the Doctor is outsmarting people. Although I do find the implication that he just didn't care about Pauline funny. 5:13 When you get hosed down by your own evil robot. 7:40 I suspect the War Machine's design probably served as the inspiration for the Daleks, which just makes their crude design even more interesting to me. Even the mist gun looks nearly identical to future Dalek ray weapons just with a shorter shaft, while the hammer turned suction cup arms gained a longer one. I find those design choices interesting from a purely practical perspective.
The companions name is polly not pauline. Also by the time this originally aired daleks were well established and at most its the other way round the war machine being a crude imitation of a dalek.
Probably just me, or maybe I haven't seen enough of SF but early shows and film but I noticed how fascination of technology and science is fading away. Earlier works seem to find joy by very simple concept of machines.
Sci-fi has lost it's orginal wonder for most writers. Given how rapidly the genera and the technology it formed alongside grew up, it's not so surprising. Props need to be more complicated to have the same novelty. Plus everything has to have a explaination now. It's not like it used to be, where you could tell a simple story and people would just accept what you were saying.
@@38procentkrytyk I can't speak for writing. I think the golden age of television as we knew it is in desperate need of a change if it wants to draw people in again. I actually think they would have been luck with prioritizing story over effects at this point. CGI is no longer impressing people the way it used to. Doctor Who in particular did some of it's most memorable pieces with practical effects over digital ones.
@@fictiontheorizer1991 I don't think you _need_ an explanation. What you need are stakes and an objective, and an infodump on exactly what _x_ is capable of is one, not particularly good, way of doing so. Besides, fans get kind of ticked off if you spell out exactly what _x_ can do and then decades later it doesn't work that way anymore because you want to tell a story that no one will like but it's easier to rewrite _x_ than to rewrite this one story.
well we have that now for the latest 'barely understand what it is but it's taking over' stuff every few years. It's just sad most of those things are a lot less tangible these days, either vague scientific practices going on someplace somewhere, that might help us someday, involving gene editing or AI, or... just new emotions people have invented.
Unpopular opinion for another time; I always prefered Faceless Ones over Zygons. The very concept seems to me far more worth exploring than another DW invasion. Maybe I got spoiled by living in XXI c.
It's a shame that the actual "War Machines" are like 80% of the way to what would have been a really cool design by the standards of the time. They are basically clunky 60's Terminators made by 60's Skynet, and that obviously eventually turned out to be a very cool idea. They just needed to be a bit more menacing than being able to blast a fire extinguisher and having a stick with whatever was cheap at the thrift store glued to the end of it.
