Salutations! It's me, here with more exciting thoughts on Doctor Who. This time, it's season 8!
Terror of the Autons
This story is mostly about this guy. He's Doctor Who's worst enemy, even though we've never heard of him before. He's called "The Master" and he has made a number of fairly bold fashion choices. He turns up at a circus, as you can see, and instantly starts bossing people about and telling them to be evil.
Everyone is intimidated by the severity of his jacket, so they do as they're told. Watch out, Doctor Who!
Also new this series is Jo Grant. She's the new companion, and she's fab. Look at her lovely smile. She's so charming! Which is a good thing, as she's almost completely useless and nearly gets Doctor Who killed on a regular basis.
The Master's evil plan involves using all the stuff in this room, which is up at the top of a big telescope. To his horror, when he gets there, he meets a weird bald man eating an egg. You can tell by The Master's face that he hates all the things that are happening to him right now.
The Master's reaction is to shoot bald-egg-beard man with a special space gun.
Killing people doesn't matter to The Master. He doesn't even look like shooting this guy is the thing foremost in his mind. He's probably thinking about something else, like why black clothes never stay truly black for very long, once you've washed them a couple of times.
Here's yet another new character! This story is full of them. This one is called Captain Yates. He's a complete pillock. Look at him, chortling away to himself and hoping Jo thinks he's amazing. Jo does not think he's amazing. Maybe this is why she keeps nearly getting everyone killed - she's trying to get rid of Captain Yates.
Anyway. The story is also about these guys - the Autons. They were in it last year, and they were terrifying. Which is why this is called Terror of the Autons, I suppose. They're made of plastic, and these ones are pretending to be policemen. The fat one still has a pretend face on, so he can get close to humans without them screaming and running right off. That makes them harder to kill.
The other has had his pretend face ripped off, so we can see how evil he looks. Which is to say, very. And their hands have come off! Nightmare.
Zzzapp! This is a great image. He looks super cool. He's probably the most popular of all the Autons, and gets put on the front of the staff magazine and that kind of thing.
Later, another type of Auton turns up. This one looks like a doll, which is supposed to be a disguise, so you will take it into your house. Then it will come to life and do a strangle on you, and you will go "But it was just a doll!"
But, right, why does it look like the devil? Surely rule one of pretending-not-to-be-evil is "Don't disguise yourself as the devil"?
This is another, slightly more successful disguise. Still kind of nightmarish, though. Given that their main idea is "Invade the earth by disguising yourself and blending in", it's a shame that the Autons have such a weird idea of what 'normal' looks like.
Anyway, the invasion doesn't work, even a bit. The Brigadier turns up, with all his friends, and blows them all up with guns. Even in this moment of victory, you can see that Captain Yates is being annoying and that the Brigadier is already regretting letting him join in.
The Mind of Evil
It's another adventure for The Master. This week he's in a car, telling this woman what to do. She looks like this always happens to her, and she's sick of it, and the second she gets home she's going to blog about this under #everydaysexism.
Hurray! It's Sergeant Benton. He's got a giant missile to look after. He's telling this guy that the missile absolutely must not, under any circumstances, get stolen by evil aliens. The look on his face suggests that he has been trying to explain this for quite a long time, with limited success.
After about twenty minutes, The Master has stolen the missile. He is delighted. He's also got a magic box which makes people see their worst fears. And a cigar! He's having a right old time.
A lot of this story happens in a prison. There's an evil machine which is full of Evil, and that's The Mind of Evil. Possibly. It's not really made explicit. But the machine drains Evil from people's brains, and turns it into... fear? I think. It's all a bit abstract.
Anyway, the upshot is that there's this little cute machine thing and it zips about the prison making people go "Arg!" in the head. Like this guy. He was going to shoot The Mind of Evil, but now he's just having a terrible time inside his own brain.
Doctor Who finds out that The Master has stolen a missile, and taken over a prison, and made a Mind of Evil happen, and of course he's furious about all these things. He's shouting at The Master, saying "Stop doing so much Evil!" and "What is wrong with you?"
The Master does not stop doing evil, and instead locks Doctor Who and Jo up in a cell. Then he stays with them, and annoys them by talking all the time about how ace he is while they are trying to play draughts.
Doctor Who is not worried. He knows that The Master's plans are always stupid, and never work, so all he has to do is wait until The Master is running around panicking and crying for help.
Sure enough, the Mind of Evil goes mad and everything goes wrong, and The Master has to come to ask Doctor Who for help. They make friends for a bit, and make The Mind of Evil explode.
But then The Master runs off, laughing, as if he had won. You haven't won, The Master. Look - your Mind of Evil is on fire. Idiot.
That'll do for now. More of Season 8 coming soon.
If you somehow missed Season 7, you can find it here.
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