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| - -were you looking for dreamcrabs? well DREAM ON - you'll never see this story because the BBC shitheads deleted it. hope you enjoy lame photo reconstructions. The Mark A’ Terrah is the seventh story of Season 4 of the programme Of The Doctor Who and features the Second Doctor, Ben, Polly and Jamie facing some poisonous-gas-breathing giant crabs called “the Macarena” - awesome! Although audio recordings, still photographs, and clips of the story exist, no complete copies of the episodes themselves are known to have survived. Well shit. Wait, “Macra”... where do I know that from? Wait, I got it: Gridlock, that brety gud RTD episode, where some giant crabs breath smog and eat entire vans of people because those crabs are like the size of swimming pools, unlike the merely tractor-sized crustaceans here. Way to ruin a call back, RTD. This story is marked by the first change made to the opening titles since the series had begun. For the first time, the face of a cosmic hobo was incorporated into the "howl-around" graphic patterns. “Howl-around” is a fitting description for this reconstruction; so is “howling chaos.” Yes, I sat down with my bag of Cheetos and watched a reconstruction, unwarily feeling incapable of waiting for someone to finally find the actual goddamn episodes surviving in some lone and time-lost BBC outpost, perhaps forgotten in some bleak foreign desert blasted by constant gusts of sand-enriched winds, or nearly overgrown by the unchecked and claustrophobic vegetal explosion of an unnamed jungle. Watching this reconstruction, I’ve learned three things:
* “It was horrible, horrible!”
* The human mind is a fragile thing, especially where giant crabs are concerned.
* The story’s interesting enough, but gets a bit draggy in the fourth episode.
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