The Silurians, episode 5
The UNIT team is trapped in the caves. From his cage, The Doctor keeps trying to reason with the Silurians, though his fellow prisoner tells him to keep quiet.
Two of the Silurians discuss the situation. They remember the humans as apes, and don't believe they are any better now than millions of years ago.
The Doctor bargains with the Silurian leader, saying they could all live together in peace. The Silurians prefer to live in extreme heat, the sort of places humans consider unlivable.
He agrees, and lets the UNIT team go free.
Major Baker - the Doctor's fellow captive - is also set free. Only, other Silurians have injected him with something that could kill millions of humans. It is apparently spread by touch. The Doctor returns just in time to warn the others.
Baker is taken to the hospital. The Doctor freaks out - it's the worst thing they could have done. Along the way, he infects others, who infect others, and on and on, as the Doctor and the Brig see for themselves when they rush to find him.
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It's refreshing to encounter an alien race which isn't completely full of interchangeable drones. What I mean is the Silurians are individuals, and they act like it. They don't all share the same opinions or motivations. They don't act as one, and it's about time.
I'm starting to like the Silurians as a people. They were here first, and when they knew our predecessors, well, they WERE apes. For them, no time has passed, and the reason they went into hibernation in the first place turned out to be in error.
The apes have taken over their planet and forgot they ever existed. How terrible that would be - go to sleep, wake up, and find the entire planet rearranged.
And though I am liking the Sils, I am starting to hate that comm device sound, which they also use to control people from that third eye of theirs. It's getting on my last nerve, and every episode seems to have more and more of that sound effect.
The UNIT team is trapped in the caves. From his cage, The Doctor keeps trying to reason with the Silurians, though his fellow prisoner tells him to keep quiet.
Two of the Silurians discuss the situation. They remember the humans as apes, and don't believe they are any better now than millions of years ago.
The Doctor bargains with the Silurian leader, saying they could all live together in peace. The Silurians prefer to live in extreme heat, the sort of places humans consider unlivable.
He agrees, and lets the UNIT team go free.
Major Baker - the Doctor's fellow captive - is also set free. Only, other Silurians have injected him with something that could kill millions of humans. It is apparently spread by touch. The Doctor returns just in time to warn the others.
Baker is taken to the hospital. The Doctor freaks out - it's the worst thing they could have done. Along the way, he infects others, who infect others, and on and on, as the Doctor and the Brig see for themselves when they rush to find him.
* * *
It's refreshing to encounter an alien race which isn't completely full of interchangeable drones. What I mean is the Silurians are individuals, and they act like it. They don't all share the same opinions or motivations. They don't act as one, and it's about time.
I'm starting to like the Silurians as a people. They were here first, and when they knew our predecessors, well, they WERE apes. For them, no time has passed, and the reason they went into hibernation in the first place turned out to be in error.
The apes have taken over their planet and forgot they ever existed. How terrible that would be - go to sleep, wake up, and find the entire planet rearranged.
And though I am liking the Sils, I am starting to hate that comm device sound, which they also use to control people from that third eye of theirs. It's getting on my last nerve, and every episode seems to have more and more of that sound effect.