s02 e15: The Space Museum

In which the TARDIS crew stumbles across an alien version of the Louvre and basically destroy it in every way possible.

Review:
Some Timey-Wimey shit, a bloody revolution, an awesome hiding place for the Doctor, and the single greatest cliffhanger in Classic Who history. Hell yeah!

Important Firsts:

• First bona-fide technobabble. 
• First Timey-Wimey.....ness

Musings:

• Wait a minute. Science fiction in a science fiction series.  Never thought I'd see the day.
• I hate historicals. 
• When the crew materializes, they are wearing their normal clothes instead of the Crusade clothes they took off in.  This creeps out the humans, but the Doctor dismisses it.
• Whoah the TARDIS has some sort of Star Trek style replicator.
• On snap--Vicki drops a glass and shatters it but then time rewinds and the glass reforms.
• No one else believes her, because obviously that kind of bizarre sci-fi shit is impossible.
• Upon leaving the TARDIS, the Doctor suggests that they stick together. Who woulda thought?
• You will probably be surprised to hear this, but it turns out that the crew is in some sort of space museum.
• The crew discovers a Dalek in the museum.  Vicki knows about the Daleks, having read about their invasion of Earth 300 years in her past in history books. She is surprised by what they look like though, saying that they are nothing like what she imagined from the descriptions.  Interesting that history book would not include PICTURES of the aliens that once took over the earth.
• The crew is not leaving footprints, despite a large amount of dust on the floor.
• Some other people in the museum, but none of them are able to see or hear the crew.  Spooky.
• The TARDIS appears in the museum.  But when they try, they can't actually touch it.  The Doctor posits that they might not actually be in the museum at all.
• Then, the crew discovers a very spooky exhibit. 
• The Doctor babbles about "jumping a time track" and ending up in "some sort of fourth dimension."  It's the beginning of techno-babble. 
• "All we have to do is wait here until we arrive!" exclaims the Doctor.
• There's something going on here, but it makes very little sense.  Still, I'm a sucker for this sort of thing.
• The exhibits fade, and some footprints appear outside where the travelers had been walking.
• "We've arrived!" exclaims the Doctor.
• Some museum curators act like wankers.  They've apparently been here for thousands of years and are getting bored.
• All the local dudes have funny eyebrows like vulcans.  I really dislike the idea of having my eyebrows shaved and then new ones glued to my face.
• Ian picks up a broken ray gun and makes "pew pew" noises.
• "Doctor, why do you always show the greatest interest in the least important things?" --Ian
• Some museum curators come and the Doctor hides in the greatest place ever.
• He also imitates the Dalek voice from the inside as he thrusts to plunger arm in and out.
• Oh dear, one of the curators is a skeezo.
• Another one has a bad run-in with a hairdryer.
• Ug look at all that hair he had to have glued to his forhead.
• The doctor fools a curator into thinking that he is actually a walrus.  I am not making this up. Telepathy is involved.
• This backfires when the curator decides he wants a walrus in a display case.
• The Doctor spends the whole third segment as a museum exhibit since Hartnell was having trouble with his dentures.
• Today I met a man who was wearing a ring that he bought 19 years ago specifically because it looked like the ring the First Doctor used to wear.  He was an odd man.
• They've definitely hired a better fight choreographer recently. The fights are actually a bit exciting and look like more than just people aggressively stroking each other.
• The curators decide to set the museum on fire in order to smoke out Barbara.  In real life, I think this would be considered an excessive way to deal with an intruder.
• Vicki decides to arm a bunch of rebels with guns in order to avert the future wherein the TARDIS crew become a museum exhibit. Or maybe she just likes carnage. 
• The weapons vault is locked with some sort of bizarre lie detector test that asks strangely probing personal questions.
• Vicki bypasses the elaborate security system by loosening a thumb screw.
• After being revived from some sort of cryo-freeze chamber, the doctor claims that being reduced to a couple degrees above absolute zero temperature has aggravated his rheumatism. 
• This means that he is a little ticked off.
• The crew reunites by all getting captured.  They should try this more often.
• Ian curbstomps the shit out of the machine that turns people into museum exhibits.  The Doctor doesn't believe that this will change the future.
• The revolution gets super bloody.  I hope Vicki is happy.
• The rayguns have some reasonably good special effects.
• The crew is rescued after all the jackass curators are brutally slaughtered.
• The Doctor then decides that their futures are reasonably safe.  They won't end up as walrusses in display cases.
• The Doctor liberates a "Time and Space Visualizer" from the museum, which allows him to view any point in time and space like a badass crystal ball.
• Hooray.
• Fade to black.
• OH SHIT THE DALEKS HAVE A CAMEO AT THE VERY END WHERE THEY ARE TRACKING THE TARDIS AND PREPARING TO EXTERMINATE.
• They also call the Doctor and his crew their "greatest enemies," marking the first time the Daleks recognize the Doctor.  Would have put this in the "Firsts" section, but didn't want to spoil the ending for anybody.
• Oh wait.
• Best cliffhanger ever, though.