Doctor Who [091] The Talons of Weng-Chiang Part 1 (1/3)

The Doctor brings Leela to Victorian London of the 1890s, to see how her ancestors lived, but is rapidly drawn into a fiendish plot involving Chinese tongs, disappearing women, an Oriental stage magician, a murderous ventriloquist's dummy and giant rats in the sewers.

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• weng
• chiang
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• tardis

[JimmyColls]

'We don't want to be conspicuous, do we?'

And then we get to the RTD era, where a man in a leather jacket and a blonde lass wearing a shiny Union Jack run around the place without giving a shit for historical consequence

[TylerCharlesFisher]

Everybody Weng-Chiang tonight...

[TylerCharlesFisher]

@JimmyColls Then my work here is done.

[JimmyColls]

@Howyaduing maybe so, but Four is definitely my Doctor. Baker had the balance between The Doctor's ancient, alien nature and his childlike sense of wonder and compassion down to a science. There's a youtube video called 'Temptation of the Key to Time' that captures all of this perfectly.

[JimmyColls]

@TylerCharlesFisher God damn you, I can't watch this without hearing 'Wang Chung' now!

[JimmyColls]

@speedformercy I was only poking fun at the inconsistencies in Who continuity. Doctor Who is my favorite series, but Christ has it contradicted itself over the years. You can't really blame it though, with so many writers taking the reins over its long run there were bound to be holes cropping up here and there. Most fans I know ignore these moments as being products of a timeline that's constantly in flux, but they're as big a part of the Who charm as the low budget FX.

[JimmyColls]

@TheBermudaMan I was only kidding. I love all iterations of Who, which is why I'm comfortable with poking fun at their inconsistencies. The only thing that genuinely annoyed me about RTD's run was that he made The Doctor willfully guilty of attempting double genocide at the end of the Time War. The whole point of 'Genesis' was that even though The Doctor knows that Dalek extinction would be for the greater good, the very notion of genocide goes against the core of who he is.

[TheBermudaMan]

@JimmyColls That's pretty much symptomatic of today's culture in general. Nobody gives a shit any more.

[MrEriklenn]

oh my god! And I thought there weren't any good quality vids on Youtube,,,,

[sexy24409]

my mother remebers this as a child

[boobookittylozz]

Best Doctor Who ep EVER