#the sensorites

[intuitive-revelations]

Doctor Who: The Legend of Ruby Sunday / The Sensorites | Orange Skies

"Grandfather and I don't come from Earth. Oh it's ages since we've seen our planet. It's quite like Earth. But at night the sky is a burnt orange, and the leaves on the trees are bright silver."

(She wasn't Susan, obviously, but doesn't make this any less sick. )

[cedarboughs]

I love how the Doctor is always delighted to realize there are plots afoot. Look at that face. He’s discovered deadly shenanigans; just what he lives for.

[actual-changeling]

fuck modern special effects, I want people in costumes and make-up and artistic body modifications ONLY.

no one wants to wear coloured spandex with latex masks anymore, and it's a shame.

[lukedom]

[unwillingadventurer]

[timeagainreviews]

RIP William Russell

Back in 2015 I had the opportunity to meet William Russell at a convention. When it was my turn I presented him with my copy of the novelisation of “The Sensorites.” As he held it he said “Now, what’s this? Ah! The Sensorites! Very good!” He then proceeded to ask me how to spell my name but he accidentally added a Y to the end. “Oh I’ve ruined it!” he exclaimed. I assured him that he had very much not ruined it. I have this cherished memory of a lovely man. We will miss you.

[doctorwhogirlie]

[wastingmytimehere]

I love the Sensorites because when the doctor got his coat ripped up in the aqueduct they immediately went and presented him with an even sexier coat that they were somehow in possession off despite being a smaller species with seemingly little interest in conventional human fashion.

[radiofreeskaro]

Radio Free Skaro #1005 - Release the Alpha Probe - New BBC #Doctor Who Season 2 trailer! - 20 years since the "Rose" leak! - Mervyn Pinfield in the Miniscope!

[intuitive-revelations]

Rewatched Heaven Sent a couple weeks ago (I was flying back from a research conference in San Francisco, and British Airways had it available to watch, which was a pleasant surprise) and man, I've got to ramble a bit...

Something-something about how the Confession Dial is clearly pulling elements from the Doctor's childhood. This has been said before of course, but when you really pull everything together, it sure does paint a picture.

It's unclear whether this was the original intent for the soul-catching ritual (which is presumably what the dials are used for, making them a sort of Matrix data slice like Nethersphere), or something added by the Time Lords in corrupting it into a torture chamber, but it's there.

From the teleportation chamber loom...

...to the night sky being a 'burnt orange'...

...to the lilies flowers of remembrance for the lost dead...

...to sentient buildings...

...to that internal soup parallel, both alone in the dial and surrounded by their cousins at the barn...

...to the jars of dust.

And speaking of that "tall woman" in a "grey shawl", who is also oddly oversized, as if putting the Doctor in the perspective of a child,

and is explicitly a nightmare from the Doctor's childhood:

a woman who died, but seemingly passed away far quicker than anyone around her expected (and all the implications relating to that and connecting to the identity of the Hybrid)...

Finally, and this is definitely a stretch, but think back to the room numbers. The Doctor has to find room 12.

Fittingly. But if 12 corresponds to the Twelfth Doctor, then what about those other rooms...?

They must also correspond to incarnations, right? It's not like the God Complex - there was only ever one prisoner in the confession dial, after all.

Incarnations, numbering "a bit confused", in a fascimile of the Doctor's childhood home? Huh...

"Illogical house, a construction that makes no sense..."

[therabbitofrassilon]

oh my god I noticed something crazy about doctor whoogle??? /pos

I saw it had a picture every time I searched for something and I was like oh I wonder if it just has a picture for every episode? like a thumbnail of sorts? but then I was like welll the pictures kind of correspond with the line im looking at... hmmmm.....

and then i searched "chan" because of chantho's manner of speech and like yeah it literally has a screenshot for each line. what the heck. oh my god. I don't know how it has this but oh my god

and yes it does this for classic who too.

absolutely amazing. i love you doctor whoogle

[actual-changeling]

ngl i'm kinda obsessed with the sensorites and their... interesting facial hair (???)

it's like upside-down hair or a very weird beard

[kidneys-and-custard]

This sounds like an innuendo!

[dropletr]

Doctor Who (1963), Season 1 Serial 7, The Sensorites Review

I think it is safe to say this is Susan's best serial. Her telepathy is put to good use with the Sensorites technology and we get some set up foreshadowing her eventual departure from the TARDIS.

Everyone else was quite good, too. The political aspects tended to drag on a bit, with a lot of misdirection, which ultimately goes nowhere. The actual mystery the Doctor is trying to solve, with the poisoned water, is intriguing. I do feel like Maitland was underutilized. He pretty much dissappears from the plot entirely, only getting a brief mention at the end.

I give The Sensorites an 8/10

[idkaguyorsomething]

the writers for classic who went “hmmm, how can we ensure that susan has something to do in this arc we’re writing 🤔” and their solution was to make a planet of psychic aliens that get easily overstimulated and have face blindness that the main characters need to negotiate with.

[kcdahippie]

We love The First Doctor and his cape era