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WATCH ALONG | CLASSIC DOCTOR WHO | 7x8 | Doctor Who and the Silurians: Episode 4 (Patreon)

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2023-07-26 14:57:08
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Azmat Mahmood

This story is absolutely brilliant and the best part is how we get time to know all these interesting, flawed humans over these 7 parts. One of these is Quinn and I love how his ambitions led him down a dark path to deceit and sabotages until they took his life and he very possibly doomed his entire race. Quinn's scientific ambitions are never made clear or specific, but at the same time I'd argue that was never meant to be the focus of this story. Quinn was mostly just a plot device to get the silurians involved with the plot. Tbh, I don't really think Quinn was after any kind of specific knowledge anyway, he just wanted the silurians to give him knowledge that only they had so he could then boast and pretend he had made amazing new discoveries in front of the world. He didn't want knowledge for the benefit of the world or anything, it was just a selfish desire to become the greatest scientist in the world. This exchange from episode 3 sums up his character pretty succinctly: Dawson: “Oh John, please. Please, let me tell this Doctor. He'll believe you. He wants to help you.” Quinn: “He's a scientist, too. He only wants to steal the credit for my discoveries.”

Azmat Mahmood

I also love how Quinn wasn't trying to outsmart the Silurians initially, he was giving them everything they needed in exchange for any scientific knowledge they could give to him. It was only when UNIT and the Doctor started to get too deeply involved and threatened to ruin his arrangement with the silurians that he panicked and started to get desperate. This is why despite knowing that the silurians are a very advanced race, Quinn foolishly saw one of them being injured and close to death (or so he thought...) as an opportunity and attempted to force it to tell him what he wanted. His greed for knowledge blinded him and it cost him his life. His death is also such a great subversion of expectations because up until that point, he’s the main character driving the plot forward, so him dying is very unexpected and the viewer is left questioning what direction the rest of the story will go in. Such clever writing. It's very interesting how many flawed human characters this story has, considering its main focus is whether we should share the Earth with an ancient species that's come back to life and if they're hostile or not. There's Lawrence who won't stop work on the project because he's concerned it will ruin his career, there's Major Baker who's overcompensating for mistakes he made in the past, there's miss Dawson who knew what Quinn was doing but hid it from everyone to protect him because clearly she has feelings for him and because of that she was the leading voice for attacking the silruians after Quinn was killed and of course there's the aforementioned Quinn. It would've been so easy to just paint the humans as the good guys, but they show the reality of these types of situations and that there are bad people on both sides. I did say Quinn was mostly just a plot device to get the silurians involved, but he's actually a very big part of that. I also love the inconsistency of the silurians killing people and leaving others merely injured because it's clearly intentional, this is how the main conflict of the story is driven forward. The Doctor argues that the silurians only attack out of self-defense, whereas the humans argue that they're in fact dangerous and hostile and need to be destroyed. This is brilliant because no one can really prove the other wrong. It even makes sense why they would let someone like Baker live, he's a part of the research centre and has been working with UNIT. They want information from him to be better prepared in case they're attacked. On the other hand, they killed Quinn because he was holding one of them hostage while it was injured and its life was threatened as a result. There are so many layers to this story, I love it!