The Hateful Eight Legs (Reincarnating “Planet of the Spiders”)
A tear, Sarah Jane? The Third Doctor on his deathbed forbids it! We (and tear-friendly Fifteen) may look askance these days at the end of Planet of the Spiders, but the bigger question is: has any of the preceding story aged well? Join us as we examine a Frankenstein’s spider with too many legs: Pertwee stunts, far-future colonists, “Flowers for Algernon,” ambiguous Mike Yates, arachnophobia, crystallography, tantric Buddhism, one clairvoyant, one exotic dancer, and a little something called reincarnation — whoops, we mean regeneration.
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Timeline:
- Intro 00:00:00
- Previously… 00:01:31
- Whomoji Challenge 00:07:24
- POLL To Open 00:14:28
- TL;DW 00:23:30
- Commentary: Planet of the Spiders 00:28:07
- Four Questions to Doomsday 01:16:53
- What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 01:18:57
- Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:24:11
- Final Judgment 01:30:47
- Randomizer! 01:38:27
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