The Sensorites

[ericadawn16]

So, I finally finished "The Sensorites" episodes! I might only be on the first Doctor but I'm going to finish all of them, really.

Ian: Gee, I think there's something huge and dangerous ahead.

Doctor: Luckily, I have this map, I'll just roll it up and it should protect us against anything. You can just thwack it death.

Really? They honestly thought that was a good weapon and then seemed so surprised when it didn't work too well...

*facepalm*

However, I loved when Susan was talking to one of the aliens about home. She said it had been ages and the alien said she had a wanderlust...
Hmm, doesn't that sound just like...her grandfather?
Whenever people theorize about her, it's usually that he was forced to become her guardian or it's some sort of rite of passage. I don't think anyone's ever voiced the idea that she just took after her grandfather that much that she wanted to see the stars...and probably insisted that he take her. He was probably reluctant but recognized himself in her like he would with Jenny later.

Gosh, I wish there was fic with the Doctor and Susan.

Ian: I don't think you even know what you're doing.

Doctor: How dare you speak to me like that! Of course, I know everything! I'm going to kick you off at the next place because I'm sure it will be a paradise or something livable, no questions.

Next Episode:
"A Land of Fear"

Comments

[monkeyprincess7.livejournal.com]

Oh One, I have major love for him. I loved the Sensorites, scared the crud out of me when I first watched it.

But yeah, the "weapon" One used was utterly un-Doctor-like. But that's the thing about Old!Who I think, it's hilarious because it's not meant to be scary, or else the children wouldn't watch it and it wouldn't have become so popular like it is today?

Susan is amazing; easily my favorite character in season 1. She's so wistful and charismatic and just awesome how she just goes out there, even when there's danger and is all "no problem". I completely agree with you; I think she just hopped on the TARDIS with him, she didn't want to be apart from him and he needed her, even if he didn't say so out loud. The love you can feel between them is palpable.

Yeah, there needs to be fic of the Doctor and Susan, so much potential!

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

When I first started watching The Sensorites, we still thought the Silence was the name of the species and I honestly wondered if they were a different form of Sensorite or perhaps from a neighboring planet because they share a lot of characteristics, like the lack of mouth, the headshape, and the use of telepathy. Now, the Sensorites have developed an aversion to the dark because of their poor eyesight in it but it's easily probable that a sub-species or those from a close planet would evolve to use the poor eyesight to an advantage by using the dark as a sanctuary or place of rest.

Or they could secretly be a more evolved form of Krillitane since sleeping on the ceiling is how we last saw them in School Reunion.

[imweirdlikethat.livejournal.com]

My favorite theory about Susan came from a fanfic I read which theorized that she's actually the Doctor's granddaughter through some offspring that he hasn't had yet, and eventually she finds him as the First Doctor and just basically says "I'm your granddaughter, I want to travel with you" and he's totally confused, but he figures, why not?

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

Interesting, we don't know exactly who her parents are/were and in the unaired pilot, they claimed she was born in the 49th century.

However, she has been to Gallifrey but then again, everyone did back then although I guess that undoes the 49th century because wouldn't the Time War be a locked event? Unless a locked event could then change the future, but what if that means that Susan is never born now?

But if she was somehow able to be born AFTER the Time War but appear back then, maybe she could have survived? Like River was a Time baby and would have lived, when she was with her parents growing up, at the same time that all the Gallifreyans were wiped out by the Time War but she survived...so maybe changing into a human like the Master did was unnecessary?

*fingers crossed because she would love for Susan to come back*

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Really? They honestly thought that was a good weapon and then seemed so surprised when it didn't work too well...

I haven't seen much of Classic Who, but it's always seemed to me that older sci fi/fantasy shows really went for the most obvious of obvious "twists" and the like. I get the impression that shows like those were more about seeing the heroes have stupid moments and wait for them to figure out what the audience knew half an hour ago, whereas now we watch as the Doctor (or whoever) figures it out.

I don't watch much older TV, so I don't know how valid that is - it's just my opinion based on what little of it I have seen.


Gosh, I wish there was fic with the Doctor and Susan.


So was she his actual grandchild, or was it like Jenny? (Although even that I don't have a good recollection of - she was the result of a biological experiment or something, right?)

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

Jenny was the result of a machine taking blood from Ten and then rearranging his DNA in a way to clone a person but have it come off more like off-spring than an exact clone.

We don't know the exact circumstances around Susan's birth except that he has admitted to being a father before...
Also, the unaired pilot claimed that Susan was born in the 49th century.

[meowbooks.livejournal.com]

Oooh, One. I haven't seen a full episode with him in it yet. (And I'm not counting the Multiple Doctors specials...)*needs to watch more Classic Who*