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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 435392" data-attributes="member: 8">Spearhead From Space (3-1 / 24-1-1970)[ATTACH=full]58303[/ATTACH]The Time Lords have exiled the Doctor to earth, but what does that mean for the series? Are they going to follow that rule or forget about it and continue to travel in the Tardis?The first coloured episode looks like a major revamp in many ways, and perhaps it could be argued that this is the first New  Doctor Who (as if the breakdown of Doctors, seasons, stories and episodes isn't complicated enough!).It all looks distinctively more cinematic regarding sets and stunts, and the build-up to the story and the regenerated Doctor is almost bafflingly ambitious.Dozens of characters in various situations are introduced all at the same time, and the Doctor is known by an earthling who is not   a companion. Very strange indeed, hmm?A quick search on wiki reveals that the dashing Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart has already met the Doctor in a 1968 episode I haven't watched, so that explains it.When I watched this scene I thought, is it really necessary for a cleaner to be there, and to be in the way?[ATTACH=full]58304[/ATTACH]Actually, the cleaner overhears peculiar information and informs the press.Except for the meteorites I think Spearhead is somewhat similar to the last First Doctor story I've seen: The War Machines.The clunky and super-slow War Machines don't look very threatening (they could only produce a puff of smoke), but it has that same vibe of different ranks being involved and the British nation under siege. Spearhead   also features an innocent human being who's coerced into collaboration via alien hypnosis.Wait a minute. This is the structure of every Doctor Who story on earth![ATTACH=full]58305[/ATTACH]Oh, this was funny. There's a lot of quasi-abstract talk about alien collective intelligence, but at the end of the day it's still a big green monster.Having said that, I had a retro-futuristic experience when I heard the sound of the meteorites for the first time - I thought it was my phone!This episode was sufficiently spooky and I prefer Doctor Who with a bit of horror in it. I think that's what I missed the most in the stories of the first two doctors.There was psychological terror in the short story The Edge Of Destruction, and it's still one my favourites of the black & white episodes.Next up is The Silurians and the name sounds vaguely familiar.</blockquote>

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