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[doyle]

Three episodes into Invasion of Time, wherein the Fourth Doctor becomes President of Gallifrey right before it gets invaded by a sheet of tinfoil that to my untrained ear seems to be trying desperately to cover up its Belfast accent.

It is brilliance of the highest order, containing as it does Borusa, Leela getting herself a hot Time Lady girlfriend, a look at the TARDIS swimming pool, the sacred plastic inflatable cushion of Rassilon and K9 going all butch. That's my favourite bit, actually, the fact that he seems to have forgotten he's a little metal dog who falls over on uneven surfaces and spends this story going Samuel L Jackson on everyone's ass. He tells the TARDIS off for being a 'stupid machine' and then has sex with it, SRSLY! He snaps "I'm in charge"! And you just know it would have been "I'm in charge, motherfucker" but the BBC were scared of Mary Whitehouse and her ninjas.

Comments

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

The Target that goes with that one is BRILLIANCE ON A STICK. Oh, the Doctor would make such a good evil overlord.

[gwynnega]

I loved Leela and her Time Lady girlfriend. But ack, Fake!Evil!Four!

[xipuloxx.livejournal.com]

It's a Glasgow accent I think.

And I should warn you, IMO this is one of those stories that starts well and goes badly downhill in the last couple of eps.

Still, maybe you'll enjoy it more than me! And I think I have that Target novelisation somewhere...

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

But all planets have a Belfast.

[melata-fic.livejournal.com]

*dies* Between this and mention of TARDIS chase scenes in another comment, I think I may have to watch this. :D