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"summary": "Doctor Who 040 The Enemy of the World (semi-organized thoughts, spoilers)",
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"content": "<p>This six-parter is one of the only complete stories from this season. It’s the most recently completed story, having been recovered from Nigeria in 2013. I'm watching my personal PAL DVD rips. I have seen this one before.</p><p>The TARDIS crew materializes on a beach, and the Doctor starts frolicking in the ocean. Nearby, a crew in a super cool hovercar notices, recognizes, prepares to murder him. He’s saved by a mysterious woman in a helicopter, and it eventually becomes clear that he looks identical to Salamander, a ruthless man who craves world dominance.</p><p>It feels like it’d be right at home in the Pertwee era, being Earthbound, and with a lot of action and vehicles -- it’s only missing Salamander being the Master in disguise. It’s also got some Hartnell vibes to it, being very character-driven, with the technology firmly in the background.</p><p>This story has awfully good production value for Who, especially in the first episode, with a hovercraft, helicopter, shots filmed from aircraft, and a very large cast.</p><p>Salamander is a very sinister character, and the realism derived from humans doing this to each other, using the same tools of today -- guns, bombs, war, and lies -- drives home the horror of it in a visceral way that the play-acting of aliens and futuristic energy weapons don’t. These are things that could happen.</p><p>It’s really quite a dark and violent story, with slowly revealed layers of deception and revenge. Deception is core to this story, and shows up over and over. Salamander lies and manipulates everyone around him. Giles Kent keeps his true motives hidden. Jamie worms his way into Salamander’s confidence by thwarting an assassination attempt that he stages. The Doctor joins in, too, imitating Salamander to lie and manipulate his underlings, and even Jamie and Victoria. Do these means justify the end? If our protagonists can so comfortably occupy the same moral ground as the enemy, what does that tell us about them? What’s the difference between them?</p><p>I’ve read a couple negative reviews of this one, but I disagree. I recall liking it before, and nothing in this rewatch has changed my mind; I think it’s a great story. Okay, Salamander’s accent is kind of ridiculous, and the sets are a bit wobbly, but are we going to start quibbling about that 40 stories in? Troughton does a good job in the double role, and it’s a well-written, compelling story.</p>",
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