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- Welcome to The Aztecs. We are a new guild and hope to be one of the best in the future. If you would like to join,make sure you are lvl 20 or above and message Doddy or Slimysnail.
- The Azteca is a delicious chain restaurant. This may sound a bit American, but every cheeseburger I've ever gotten a Mexican restaurant is the best cheeseburger I've ever had. What are we talking about? Doctor Who? Nah, I would have remembered that. The Aztecs itself was the very first “sixth story evar!” of Season 1 of the limey scientifical-fiction television programme Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in 1964. This story was just as much a costume extravaganza as The Web Planet would be about six months later, only this one is historical, not a crazy make-believe with bug-eyed monsters. Filled with lovingly-designed sets and costumes (with a modicum of historical accuracy) and filmed with all the finesse of your parents at a high school play (including the bit where someone jostles the camera and they leave it in), you’ll be shocked by just how primitive televisual entertainment and Doctor Who itself were back in 1963, but don’t let that put you off, this is a really good story. Usually played for lower stakes than the “entire universe ever” or something, historicals such as The Aztecs would be replaced by pseudo-historicals during the Second Doctor’s run, because monsters make everything better, right? Why fight some human villain when you can have a giant steampunk Cyberman mecha stomping around Victorian London instead? Really, it’s just a much more sophisticated form of storytelling to inject monsters into every story, seconded only to superheroes. Barbara really shines in this story as a “companion” because back then the companions were the main deal while the Doctor himself was just a side character and only a half-step above the Tardis as a plot device. We’d have to wait several years to see the Aztecs on screen again in The War Games when the Second Doctor encountered Mexican warriors plucked out of time by the War Lords. Like you care. Obviously composed and filmed to be seen on the tiny TV screens people had back then, you should try it on your cellphone today, I bet it’ll work there too!
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