The End of Phase #1 of Doctor Who... - Doctor Who: The War Machines (1966) - REVIEW

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  @MrTARDIS · 2 years ago · pinned

  &quot;DOC...TOR...WHO...IS....RE...QUIRED!&quot;<br><br>Thanks for watching, folks. We&apos;re so close to the end of the marathon! Be sure to &quot;like&quot; the video, comment and subscribe to appease WOTAN, I mean the YouTube algorithm!

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• AN

  @AnvilAL94 · 2 years ago

  Based on the criteria of style, control, damage and aggression, the judges agree that the Robot Wars reference was amazing.

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• GA

  @Gabtool · 2 years ago

  The robot wars gag absolutely sent me. Bravo MrTardis

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• DO

  @DokidokiWeaver-chan · 2 years ago

  Theory: WOTAN develops sentience and worries that C-Day will result in it losing its individuality, hence it trying to eliminate the humans as fast as possible, so C-Day won&apos;t happen.

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  @williamst.romain7393 · 2 years ago

  Throughout Hartnell&apos;s run he refers to himself as human. It wasn&apos;t until Troughton that they decided he wasn&apos;t.

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  @SegaNintendoGuy64 · 2 years ago

  Oh Dodo, Of all the companion exits we had in the classic series you just had to have the worst ones.

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  @CallMeCrazyCallMePoor · 2 years ago

  I can&apos;t help but laugh at the justification for Ben and Polly joining the team. The Doctor turns around and goes, &quot;what? Oh, I suppose I&apos;ve accidentally kidnapped you two.&quot;

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  @henrykujawa4427 · 2 years ago

  I&apos;ve never seen this as the &quot;end&quot; of an era, it&apos;s more the beginning of a new one. &nbsp;The first time I saw it (in the mid-80s), it also struck me as yet one more example of how things that became the norm years later started with William Hartnell! &nbsp;In this case, it&apos;s a prototype of the entire UNIT era, with the Doctor working with the military on contemporary Earth.<br><br>The War Machines themselves, also seem like crude prototypes of the Daleks, much in the way the &quot;Zero-X&quot; (in the movie &quot;Thunderbirds Are Go&quot;) was a UGLY-as-hell crude early prototype for FIREBALL XL5. There was also a VERY-similar killing machine much later in the series-- the &quot;cleaners&quot; in &quot;Paradise Towers&quot;.<br><br>Since WOTAN has the power to hypnotize and control people&apos;s minds, it&apos;s clear to me it was also able to READ minds, which is how it knew what &quot;TARDIS&quot; stood for-- it read Dodo&apos;s mind.<br><br>I&apos;ve always thought the Post Office Tower was a thoroughly-impractical design, and structurally-unstable. &nbsp;It wouldn&apos;t be safe to build something that tall AND skinny in San Francisco!<br><br>During the nightclub scene, there&apos;s a piece of &quot;KPM&quot; production music (I forget which track specifically) which later was used during the Ralph Bakshi era of &quot;SPIDER-MAN&quot; (1968-70).

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• AN

  @andrewbowman4611 · 2 years ago (edited)

  WOTAN is pronounced with a v because it&apos;s a German name, w&apos;s being pronounced as v&apos;s in that language. As you pointed out, he&apos;s also known as Odin and, in cultures, Woden, after whom Wednesday is named. Given that people are at work in The War Machines, it&apos;s possible that the story takes place - at least in part - on a Wednesday, making quite a neat meta-joke if true. It&apos;s the potential day (victory) of WOTAN. Just a passing thought..

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  @arvarvanwar · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1WFC08UtDY&amp;t=317">5:17</a> I honestly loved those creative title cards they had in the 60s, I really wish they had them for the rest of the classic series too, I really missed them while watching the 70s and 80s

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  @neilbarnes7537 · 2 years ago

  It’s pronounced with a V sound because that is the German pronunciation. Professor Brett is obviously a fan of the music dramas of Richard Wagner, the Ring Cycle in particular.

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  @Saber-d8m · 2 years ago

  I like how this dropped on Anneke Wills’s birthday

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