Day 530: Meglos Part 1

What's curious about this story is its beginning. When Part 1 comes to a conclusion, the Doctor, Romana and K9 have still not left the confines of the TARDIS control room. Events have still been occurring without them, as people argue and plot various schemes without the presence of the main characters. The plot also makes up for this by making the main thrust of Part 1 be about trying to get the Doctor to visit a certain planet, Tigella, but the story still feels conspicuous by the absence of the TARDIS crew, as we realise just how important the process of the Doctor and co. interacting with other characters in the story is to our level of engagement. But this little experiment does provide a nice change in the way we expect stories to run for the series, and some days we just need a little bit of change to spice things up in our lives.