People who talk about infallibility are usually on very shaky ground

[shadowhive]

So last night I continued the Doctor Who watch with Mind Of Evil so thoughts ahoy.

The mind of evil is all about the Keller machine, which feeds on negative emotions (and then can kill by showing people their fears) and, of course, the Master is behind it. The Mind Of Evil has an issue that some of the old Who has, it’s long. At six parts long it definitely feels too long.

The first few eps also has a plot line at the world peace conference, which feels a bit superfluous. (Why would the Master bother using the machine to influence the people there when he already had another plan?) It dies feel a bit of a shame that Chin Lee isn’t in it more, Once that part fizzles out the story becomes more focussed, on a prison riot and the master stealing a missile which he intends to use at said conference. It’s impressive that they had an actual mussel there, I hope that the making of covers how that happened.

One part did involve the master exposing the doctor to the machine and then, as tv tropes puts it, it becomes like something out of a hurt comfort fic. He definitely cares about the Doctor and that much is clear here (despite his attempts to kill the Doctor in the previous ep). They even end up working together in an attempt to stop the machine when it starts going rogue.

There’s some good things here and some funny stuff too (like the Brigadier being in disguise as someone bringing provisions to the prison and the master having his own music). And some strange things too. (Making a castle into a prison seems like a good idea but you really mean to say that they didn’t close off a secret passage?)

All in all it was an ok ep but I’m sure it’s not gonna be my fav of the season.
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After doing the song Saturday post last night I did some more Fenyx Rising and started Ares’ questline. Surprisingly the first vault I was sent to was Ares’ vault (also surprising it wasn’t combat filled) but of course it wasn’t that easy. Ares’ essence got stolen at the end by... someone, so now I have to track that down.

I watched a Bob’s burgers ep, then went to bed where I watched Buzzfeed Unsolved’s Mothman ep cause it popped up on twitter which was fun (I wanna go out there sometime!).

Comments

[turlough]

I completely agree that the plot line at the peace conference felt quite unnecessary. With a few minor changes they could have cut that completely and made a four-parter that would have felt much more cohesive and not dragged so. That said, I like this adventure quite a lot anyway. I've watched it several times actually and still find much of it very enjoyable. It's a good adventure for Jo too. It's nice to see her show off her skills as a Unit agent.

[shadowhive]

Yeah definitely! As it is it felt odd and a little strange. Yeah it’s nice when Jo gets to show off her skills, she’s actually more competent than people give her credit