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The TARDIS lands in a quarry.
This happens a lot in Doctor Who, but rarely so definitively as here.
The TARDIS is thinking, "I look great in this quarry."
Doctor Who and Jamie are excited about something or the other. Probably a bit of rock or a door or something. It's not a very interesting planet and you have to make your fun where you can.
Zoe thinks they should all be still talking about how great she is for blowing all the Cybermen up last week.
She thinks that if Doctor Who had done it, they would still be in the TARDIS listening to him go on about it and drawing pictures of himself killing Cybermen on a whiteboard.
The Krotons isn't very good. The planet is a bit tedious and the people who live on it have little character to speak of.
But it's enjoyable watching this TARDIS team hang out together. They have a nice dynamic and seem to be having fun, even when the plot makes no sense.
Plus, one of them is Zoe. Look at her lovely, cherubic face.
It's a Kroton! He's quite impressive, in his own way. Though I'm not sure which way round his head is meant to go. Maybe he doesn't either. That would explain his irritable disposition.
The Kroton is cross with Jamie. I forget why.
I think maybe Jamie has snuck into the Kroton's secret room. No-one is meant to go in there. They haven't tidied in ages, and there's a big bubbling vat of something in the middle of the room, which can't conform to health and safety regulations.
If Jamie was to burn himself, they would be liable.
Doctor Who and Zoe, meanwhile, are outside, being hassled by the other Kroton.
They don't seem particularly scared. They seem like they've been caught shopping, when they said they were too ill to come to work today.
Having caught Zoe, the Krotons do something that makes her face go all bendy and weird. I think they might be trying to suck out her cleverness.
This is a great, trippy sequence where everything just goes mental for a bit. I like that about 1960s Who. It just does what it wants, as if it knows that soon it will be the 1970s and it will have to start behaving itself a bit.
What a great bit of design. It's like the Sydney Opera house had little robot children.
These are the only two Krotons in the story. Despite this, they still spend most of their time talking about their mission. You'd think they'd have some Kroton stuff to discuss, like who'd they'd like to play them in the film of their life, or something.
At the end, they die, horribly, because Doctor Who puts acid in their drinking water. That's pretty dark.
They were a bit evil, I suppose, but you've sometimes got to wonder what goes through Doctor Who's mind.
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