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Doctor Who - Drahvins
#Drahvins#galaxy four#vicki pallister#steven taylor#1st doctor#doctor who#doctor who girlie#classic who#classic doctor who#first doctor
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I adore The Dead Planet, but the undercurrent of the Daleks' "ugliness" being a facet of their antagonism, contrasted with the blonde-blue-eyed Thal beauty, sits there a little awkwardly, and I like how Galaxy 4 almost feels like a direct response to it? The Rills as hideously inhuman vs the Thal-like Drahvins. The Chumblies are cute baby Daleks, the Rills' machinery even reuses the Skaro City heartbeat. And the Rills are so lovely, the Sunday school "doesn't matter what you look like!" points the most twee the show had been to that point.
Then meanwhile, the TARDIS trio nearly breaking their necks to abandon the Drahvins to their fate is the most aggressively "Judge/Jury/Executioner" the Doctor had ever been in to any alien or monster other than the Daleks, it's fucking hilarious.
#I'm a pro-Galaxy 4 truther can't help it#and I don't think it's necessarily a misstep in The Dead Planet's message or anything#atomic horror is sort've all about mutation and that rot#it's just funny to have the Nazi allegory so immediately in the radioactive fallout parallel to the Thals being#y'know#rather awkwardly Third Reich Aryan#Galaxy 4#The Dead Planet#The Daleks#Rills#Chumblies#Drahvins#First Doctor
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All the Drahvins going to die because they mindlessly followed Maaga who only cares about her own power and safety, instead of choosing to try to live alongside those around them and different from them. A tired tale as old as time, except in this particular case the Drahvins actually do lose their power and do die,
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When you know a character and their material like the back of your hand and you see someone say something about the character as if it’s a known trait of theirs but you’ve literally never seen that happen
#saw a review for an old first doctor novel that said that steven’s ‘capacity to fall for the wrong type of woman’ was ‘very much in place’#his… his what?#is this a thing that happened repeatedly in the novels for some reason and i’ve been blissfully unaware of it?#he literally never gets anything romantic in the show#you can see steven/sara if you squint like i did and apparently big finish did as well#but that’s it and that’s already a stretch#and at that sara is not the wrong kind of woman so it wouldn’t describe her anyway#is this about steven being attracted to the drahvin for a hot minute or something?#because it was literally about a minute. very quickly realized that they suck and then never looked at them like that the rest of the story.#but there’s nothing else to draw from lol#so i have to assume that either the novels kept doing this to him for some reason#or this person is just living in a dream world about who steven is lol#i’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and say it’s the novels because i know some very odd choices have been made in them#but still. what???#classic who#steven taylor
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What is your favourite Doctor Who story?
ROUND 2 MASTERPOST
synopses and propaganda under the cut
The Mind Robber
Synopsis
To escape from the volcanic eruption on Dulkis, the Second Doctor uses an emergency unit. It moves the TARDIS out of normal time and space. The travellers find themselves in an endless void where they are menaced by white robots.
Having regained the safety of the TARDIS, they believe they have escaped — until the ship explodes. They find themselves in a land of fiction, where they are hunted by life-size clockwork soldiers and encounter characters like Rapunzel, the Karkus, and Swift's Lemuel Gulliver.
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It’s so good, peak weird 60s who, Jamie’s face replacement to cover for frazer hines being off sick is the funniest thing, Zoe’s sparkly jumpsuit is ICONIC, incredible story (anonymous)
Galaxy 4
Synopsis
The Doctor, Vicki and Steven arrive on an arid planet where they meet the beautiful Drahvins and the hideous Rills. Each has crash-landed after a confrontation in space. The Rills are friendly, compassionate explorers. The Drahvins are dull-witted, cloned soldiers, terrorised by the intelligent, warlike matriarch Maaga.
Propaganda no propaganda submitted
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I've always been fascinated by dr who writers who only ever did one story. like, you only ever did this universe once and this is the story you chose to tell. I always get kinda excited speculating on why they chose to tell the story they did. lately been thinking about eisner-nominated comics writer Lilah Sturges, whose only contribution to the Whoniverse was the 2011 IDW comic A Fairytale Life. most of the IDW comics are lame, especially the 11th Doctor's era. to give you an idea, there was a run where the Doctor, Amy and Rory were traveling with a talking t-rex from the future and they somehow made that concept boring. but Fairytale Life is a whole different ballgame. I mean, yes, it's a fanwanky science fiction fairy tale that's a bit of a mess of ideas overall. but it's a good fun mess at least, and the fanwank is of a high quality. see, it's set on a planet-sized theme park designed after medieval fantasy versions of Europe during the reign of the Third Human Empire. we saw the First Empire a few times during classic Who and the Second and Fourth in Tennant and Eccleston's runs, respectively. this is, to this day, the only story set during the reign of the Third Human Empire. arguably the comic only exists to answer a question so fanwanky even Big Finish haven't found time to pretend they care about it. but I think Sturges' answer to that question is a fun story with interesting potential ramifications. the only two things we really know about the Third Empire are:
1. they have planet-sized theme parks.
2. near the end of their run they were involved in a war they weren't prepared for that also includes Sycorax, Drahvins and Sontarans.
so they're basically a depressingly hedonistic empire of fools whose downfall involves a mix of then-recent New Series aliens and some z-listers from the 60s (not the first Who story to feature a z-list alien from the sixties alongside some newcomers in skull masks. heh). that's... really fun? big Paradise Towers vibes. I've fleshed out the Third Empire in my own headcanon to include a bunch of other undated stories involving hedonistic future humans, but what's in the comic itself is a lot of fun already. I love how we can ascertain so much about why this Empire is collapsing, why we only have one story about it, just from a quick visit to one of their theme parks. that's a fun way to worldbuild! this could be such a cool springboard for transformative continuity!
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★★★ - Evorta,, :O??
★ - Evorta's strife weapon is a massive steampunk-themed hammer! She has the ability to ride on it as well [Even if it's a little unstable at times]
★ - Evorta's last name, "Dravin", is a reference to the Drahvin from Doctor Who [A predominantly FEMALE species of aliens]
★ - Unlike most Indigos, Evorta isn't incredibly skilled when it comes to making weapons, her specialty is with mainly cars and such, but she's not against TRYING to make a weapon if asked by someone she's close with
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What species is the best at driving?
The Drahvin.
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To me the best part of Galaxy 4 was how the Doctor just went around assessing spaceships with his screwdriver. Not only can we maybe (just maybe if we squint) see the screwdriver as the beginning of the sonic, but it's also genuinely funny?! Like here's a guy on a planet that's about to explode and he's going off about how un-spaceworthy the Drahvins' ship is and then getting really excited about how well-built the Rills' is in ways that seem only barely relevant to the plot. Showcases his interests and priorities and it's so beautiful to me
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Dhravins.
Drahvins are ineligible for the same reason as time lords; they look more or less like humans and aren't Creatures.
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If we are right and NPH is the Celestial Toymaker, I think we are sleeping on the big picture. The toy maker has one televised appearance and that was in the first doctors era. Do you understand how fucking big this is. We can have the monk back, The freaking voord, drahvins, any villain who has just one appearance in the show can come back!
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Doctor Who: Drahvin
Favourite Episode: They only appear in their story: Galaxy 4
Home Planet: Drahva
Scary Factor: 4/10 - Purely because a group of women can be scary, but in a way I like, it that makes sense
My Personal Rating: 5/10 I liked them, they made me chuckle a few times, and I didn't mind their story
(Please don't take these too seriously, it's just a bit of fun)
#first doctor#doctor who#classic doctor who#doctor who girlie#1960s#tv#classic who#vicki pallister#steven taylor#galaxy 4#drahvin
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Season 3
Galaxy 4
The TARDIS lands on an arid planet where the travellers are caught in a clash between the warmongering Drahvins and the stationary Rills through their robots, neither native to the planet. With the planet set to explode within days, the travellers are at the whim and mercy of the Drahvins' leader, Maaga. But who can they trust?
This is pure kitschy 60s sci-fi, especially the stuff with the Drahvins. Culture and creation wise, they're sort of like the seed for the Sontarans in the sense that their soldiers are clones, but the attitudes of their leaders, from what we gather from Maaga (who has a REALLY unfortunate phonetic name here in the 2020s), are very Dalek-esque. On the other hand, the Rills are grotesque, blobby slug-things but peaceful and altruistic, extending an olive branch that the Drahvins effectively burned on sight. It's almost like Small Soldiers in the sense that the "monstrous" are kind, but the conventionally attractive humans are cold and even vicious, even to their peers.
Only one episode of this story exists in its original form, but the rest survived in audio form, and so the whole lot was recreated with animation, I guess for consistency. It's very basic flash animation but does the job well enough, if a bit soulless and unexpressive compared to live action. Galaxy 4 is an easily digestible 4-part story, but to me, not all that memorable in the long run. Half an hour after I finished the last episode, I'd already forgotten the name "Drahvin." I had to look it up. So, all in all, a quirky bit of enjoyable sci-fi, but ultimately forgettable.
Next time, I'm breaking the rules a bit. The next story is Mission to the Unknown, but the original has long since been wiped. However, a fan recreation was produced in 2019 with the original camera scripts and full support of the BBC, so we'll take a look at that instead. Just gotta take what you can get sometimes.
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Not the Drahvins rather die than work with the Rill. Truly so representative of today's absolute BS shit we see.
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What is your favourite Doctor Who story?
ROUND 1 MASTERPOST
synopses and propaganda under the cut
Marco Polo
Synopsis
Arriving in Central Asia in 1289, the Doctor and his companions join the caravan of the famous Venetian explorer Marco Polo as it makes its way from the snowy heights of the Pamir Plateau, across the treacherous Gobi Desert and through the heart of imperial Cathay.
Propaganda no propaganda submitted
Galaxy 4
Synopsis
The Doctor, Vicki and Steven arrive on an arid planet where they meet the beautiful Drahvins and the hideous Rills. Each has crash-landed after a confrontation in space. The Rills are friendly, compassionate explorers. The Drahvins are dull-witted, cloned soldiers, terrorised by the intelligent, warlike matriarch Maaga.
Propaganda no propaganda submitted
The Myth Makers
Synopsis
When the TARDIS arrives on the plains of Asia Minor not far from the besieged city of Troy, the Doctor is hailed by Achilles as the mighty god Zeus and taken to the Greek camp. He meets Agamemnon and Odysseus. Forced to admit he is a mere mortal — albeit a traveller in space and time — he is given two days to devise a scheme to capture Troy.
Steven and Vicki, meanwhile, have been taken prisoner by the Trojans. Vicki, believed to possess supernatural powers, is given two days to banish the Greeks to prove she is not a spy.
Propaganda no propaganda submitted
The Ark
Synopsis
The Doctor and his companions Steven Taylor and Dodo Chaplet arrive some ten million years into the future, on board a generation starship which is carrying the last of humanity away from an Earth that is about to fall into the Sun. However, the cold that Dodo has could prove devastating to these future humans and their servants, the Monoids.
Propaganda no propaganda submitted
The Gunfighters
Synopsis
When the First Doctor, Steven and Dodo arrive in the town of Tombstone in 1881, the Doctor's only aim is to find a dentist. Adamant that they should only stay a night in Tombstone, the Doctor finds their stay prolonged when he inadvertently becomes involved with a group of gunmen out to kill Doc Holliday.
Propaganda
I know the song is bad, but is it really? When I watched this for the first time it was slightly annoying, occasionally very funny (like when we linger on Charlie's body for what must have been a full minute while the lyrics of the song talked about how he just died, an iconic moment in doctor who for me). But then a few months ago I watched it with a bunch of other people and it was so fun, specifically because of the song. Its great, the Gunfighters is extremely underrated and I love it dearly, its one of my favourite first doctor stories, and the last chance saloon is a regular ear worm of mine (anonymous)
The Smugglers
Synopsis
The TARDIS arrives on the coast of seventeenth-century Cornwall — much to the astonishment of Polly and Ben. Pirates led by Captain Samuel Pike and his henchman Cherub are searching for a hidden treasure, while a smuggling ring masterminded by the local squire is trying to off-load contraband.
Propaganda no propaganda submitted
#round 1#the gunfighters shouldn't be here#fighting for survival#she should be with the top stories that automatically advanced to round 2#but here we are#she better make it into the next round
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Galaxy 4
season 003 : story 018 : episodes 082-085
11 SEP - 02 NOV 1965 || 07 - 08 JUN 2023
This… really should’ve been a three parter.
While this has some interesting moments, funny lines, and the occasional unique narrative framing choice… It’s drawn out- the Chumblies just make me feel a bit lethargic.
Skipping straight to episode 2, because well... lethargy as I said… I like when the Drahvins take a hostage when the Doctor wants to go out again that Steven demands that it be him this time instead of Vicki; not only him in character offering her some personal freedom instead of being stuck in the Drahvin ship for a couple more hours, but meta-textually also allows Vicki to have more scenes acting opposite the Doctor.
Steven has some good scenes trying to incite mutiny with the Drahvins, with Maaga’s behaviour… foreshadowing (is that foreshadowing or just characterising?) the reveal that she’s the real villain of the story. Although it is frustrating just how thoughtless the regular Drahvins are. Like yes that’s the point, I know, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t tedious to watch too.
I like Vicki’s moments with the Doctor, especially with the retrospect that this is her last real interaction with Hartnell, other than [not even, really] saying goodbye at the end of The Myth Makers.
“That was no risk. I observed, noted, collated, concluded– then I threw the rock”.
The airlock scene with Steven is pretty good- he's escaped* the ship, and is now stuck between the threat of the Drahvins, and the perceived threat of the Chumbley. And Maaga’s decompressing the airlock compartment itself because she's a bit insane I guess lol.
The Rills being revealed as peaceful is kinda cliche now, but could've been a good reveal back when it was made- after all cliches become cliches with overuse. Them avoiding showing their face is a decent narrative way to add false suspicion to them, and their justification of it being due to the potential of disturbing "typical humanoid" lifeforms is a fun comment on how a lot of the aliens are… coincidentally bipedal.
The Drahvin assault on the Rill ship is well shot and feels epic (as epic as it can be, being a 3 v 3) in the sense of pacing and camera angles.
The Rill's argument for why they'd let the Doctor leave the planet even if the refuelling effort was unsuccessful was a really great scene; Steven's suspicion is fairly justified after the encounters with the Drahvins.
And the explanation of how the Doctor stands for similar values to the Rills while being able to travel further and affect more people is quite a nice moment; the Rill's trust that even if they're unable to escape, the Doctor getting away would be for their agreed benefit of the universe. Steven’s (warranted) suspicion, after the whole debacle with the Drahvins, is also really appreciated.
Animation really did this favours in terms of the ship's size, and launch at the end of the story; the planet disintegrating and the ground hellishly cracking open is also really good.
As for the story in the real world… apparently all three of the main cast hated this script so much that their complaints resulted in Maureen's contract not being renewed, and Bill being threatened with firing. So that's… a thing that happened.
At least I think it's got some good stuff. Like it's not incredible, just...
★★★☆☆
...fine
#doctor who#the doctor#vicki pallister#steven taylor#william hartnell#maureen o'brien#peter purves#doctor who review
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