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This story is great. There are some underground monsters who live in caves. There's one, in the distance.
The man in the foreground is totally freaked out by this. He's right. If I saw that, I'd run right off.
He doesn't run off. He shoots it with his gun.
The monster does not like being shot, so runs off across a field.
This is a beautiful shot. It's like the monster is in a music video about falling in love on an Autumn evening. That would be great.
The monster meets Liz, who is mucking around in a barn for some reason. This shot is from the monster's point of view. He's got three eyes, you see.
Liz looks very annoyed that he's found her. She was probably up to something that normal society would frown upon. What if the monster tells everyone?
After a bit, Doctor Who meets the monsters, who - it turns out - are called Silurians. They look awesome, I think.
Doctor Who is delighted to meet them. He likes monsters. That's why he's the hero. If he just cried or ran away or stabbed them in the head with a fork, he'd be less interesting to watch.
Doctor Who and Liz go underground to see where the Silurians live. It turns out they've imprisoned the guy from earlier on.
He's saying, "These Silurians are jerks. Let me out."
Doctor Who can't be bothered. He likes the Silurians and thinks that if they've locked this guy up, they probably have a good reason.
Brilliantly, a dinosaur lives with the Silurians.
I can't remember what Doctor Who is saying here, but he's probably mansplaining dinosaurs to Liz. That's one of his main things, in this era of the show. Telling people stuff they already know.
One of the best things about this story is that Geoffrey Palmer is in it. He's a government guy, who's come to see what's going on with all the monsters and stuff.
The guy in the background is saying "Everything's fine. Please go away."
It's not fine. There's a dinosaur under their office. That's not 'fine'. Exciting, yes. But not fine.
Doctor Who comes back to the office and says, "It's brilliant down in the caves. If you like monsters and dinosaurs."
The Brigadier is already thinking about shooting the monsters and dinosaurs. He's excited at the prospect. It will look great on his CV.
Doctor Who goes back down to the caves to tell the Silurians that the Brigadier is probably going to try to kill them all. They just shrug and start making a plague to kill all the humans.
Doctor Who should probably have thought all this through, really. What did he expect them to do? Dance about with delight?
Whenever Liz looks at something, I get the impression she wants to devour it.
Here she's clearly considering pouncing on Geoffrey Palmer. The woman is insatiable.
Later, Geoffrey Palmer runs away to London. Possibly because of Liz, it's not clear.
But - oh no! - he's got Silurian plague!
I like this shot. It's very stylish.
It turns out you can't run away from plague. Geoffrey Palmer dies on a fence. But not before sneezing on everyone else, so they've got plague too!
This bit is quite serious and adult. Which is quite something for a show that earlier featured an unconvincing pink dinosaur.
Doctor Who and Liz do some exciting science to cure the plague.
I like this development. Doctor Who will spend a lot of time from now on making stuff work and thinking about things.
When he was Doctor Who number 2, he just tended to run about panicking, before murdering the villains. Before that, when he was number 1, he would often simply fall asleep and take credit for everyone else's work.
But now he really gets into things. It's fun.
Pow! That's a great shot, isn't it? The Silurians get wind that Doctor Who is trying to cure their plague. So they blow a hole in the wall and come to kidnap him.
Now all the humans will die, and the show will be about Doctor Who defending the Silurians from alien invaders every week.
Avon, from Blake's 7, is in this too. Here he tries to rescue Doctor Who.
His plan is to charge about firing guns at everything. The Brigadier would be delighted with this plan.
Doctor Who wins by turning on a big machine so that it will blow up. He tells the Silurians that they'd better scarper. So they do. Then he turns the machine off so it does not blow up.
If he'd thought about doing this much earlier, loads of people would still be alive.
Doctor Who drives off, congratulating himself on his brilliant solution to everything. Then the Brigadier blows up the Silurians with bombs.
Doctor Who is consumed with furious rage. Liz looks at Doctor Who as if to say, "This is what the Brigadier does literally every time he meets something he doesn't like. Why are you still surprised?"
Then they drive off and the story ends.
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