Showing posts with label DW-1963-14-04. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DW-1963-14-04. Show all posts

Monday, January 4, 2021

Doctor Who (1963) 14.04.04

Face of Evil - Part 4

The power flickers and the Tesh, who were closing in on Leela, get scared off by it. Leela rushes into Xoanon's room with one of the weapons the Tesh left behind and pulls the Doctor to safety. Xoanon isn't beat yet. He electrifies the walls and makes one of the Tesh attack the Doctor. The Tesh hits an electrified wall and is killed.

Calib, Tomas, Neeva, and what's left of the Sevateem enter the complex. Jabel orders the Tesh to fall back. His plan is to lead the Sevateem into a trap. The Doctor almost gets killed by Leela, on more than one occasion, after Xoanon takes over her mind temporarily. Xoanon sets the reactor to overload. The Doctor tries to stop the mad computer by excising the part of Xoanon's personality that came from him.

Thursday, December 31, 2020

Doctor Who (1963) 14.04.03

The Face of Evil - Part 3

The Doctor and Leela explore the area beyond the barrier. They meet the Tesh who at first think that the Doctor has returned to save them. Leela points her crossbow at them. Jabel, the leader of the Tesh, uses his mental superpowers to subdue her. Two of his followers take Leela away.

The Doctor sees that they are about to kill Leela in the process of analyzing her. He objects and Jabel turns his mental superpowers on the Doctor. When the Doctor wakes up he is, like Leela, tied down and about to be fried by the analyzing equipment. He uses a mirror to cause the machine to malfunction and free them.

Sunday, December 27, 2020

Doctor Who (1963) 14.04.02

Face of Evil - Part 2

The Doctor and Leela return to the village which is deserted. The tribe is gone on a mission to free Xoanon, their god. The attack goes poorly. Half of the Sevateem are killed. Calib returns to the village and finds the Doctor and Leela. Calib poisons her with a Janis thorn. The Doctor gets some help from Tomas who doesn't want to see Leela die. Tomas keeps an eye on Calib while the Doctor uses an old medical device to create an antidote for the poison.

Andor, Neeva, and the rest of the survivors of the attack return to the village. Calib doesn't believe the Doctor is the Evil One, unlike Andor and Neeva. The Doctor is put to the test, which he passes, with some advice from Leela. The rest of the tribe seem convinced and set the Doctor and Leela free. The Doctor builds a weapon for Tomas, a ray gun to help them fight the invisible creatures.

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Doctor Who (1963) 14.04.01

The Face of Evil - Part 1

The TARDIS materializes in the wrong place, once again. The Doctor has arrived in the territory of the Sevateem. He runs into Leela who has recently been exiled by Andor, the leader of the Sevateem, on the advice of Neeva, the tribe's priest. Leela believes the Doctor to be the Evil One who holds Xoanon, her tribe's god, captive. She explains to him about Sevateem and the place where they are.

The Doctor is captured by the Sevateem but Leela escapes notice. The Doctor is taken to Andor who also believes him to be the Evil One and unlike Leela won't listen to anything he says. Andor orders Neeva to say the litany, after which they will kill the Doctor and go to free Xoanon. Leela rescues the doctor and together they make their way into the wilderness where the Doctor finally gets to see the Face of Evil, carved into the side of a mountain. It looks just like him.

Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Doctor Who (1963) 14.04 Extras

Into the Wild (2012)
25 minutes

This is a documentary about the making of Face of Evil. There are a number of people interviewed for the documentary but the three who get the most screen time are Philip Hinchcliffe (producer), Mat Irvine (visual effects designer), and Louise Jameson (Leela).

The documentary opens with Hinchcliffe talking about how the story came together. They wanted to tackle an idea that hadn't been tried before: what if the Doctor returned to some place he had been before only to discover that he had an unintended affect on the locals.