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are merely creative the master is along for the ride and the doctor and the jo are gelling perfectly i would have preferred it had it been four episodes and a different soundtrack but they re a given horror quotient the music works against the sea devils because it s just silly and so obtrusive comedy quotient with the doctor it s hit and miss hits include his defiant claim about being a personal friend of nelson and hart s reaction misses include anything to do with the master in this story the best buddies routine is just awful drama quotient a damp squib compared with silurians but then it makes up for it in other areas doctor who and the silurians it ain t but it s a good action packed yarn with a decent monster 8 10 posted by david the wavid at 18 31 1 comment thursday 17 september 2009 the curse of peladon previous viewings one episode 1 none episodes 2 to 4 yeah weird one that last year pre marathon a new classic doctor who story was a big event but i just couldn t get into it i think part of the reason is that it s a type of story that s difficult to get right a studio bound political parody with neutered ice warriors and hardly any action i noted it had a decent reputation so come marathon time i approached it optimistically the curse of peladon is another story that seems to have learned all the wrong lessons from star trek in the future delegates of the federation come to planet peladon to make a decision over whether to admit the planet to the organisation king peladon is in favour while his aide hepesh is against it the story revolves around the admission of of peladon to the federation and a possible plot to kill the delegates the doctor and jo land in the middle of this and have to take on the roles of the earth delegates hoping to investigate and discover the truth behind the events outer space diplomacy ugh is there is a worse thing to base a story around brian hayles is back to write i guess he wouldn t have the ice warriors appearing otherwise even though they re good guys this time and he seems to agree giving over plenty of time to character moments away from the main action king peladon strikes up a friendship with jo who he believes to be a princess with their relationship effectively getting its own subplot a rarity for doctor who and a lot of thought has gone into making the delegates interesting characters both visually and personally most of them should be terrible but they somehow work alpha centauri is a squealing one eyed cactus arcturus is an alien head in a jar and then there s the ice warriors who are just bizarre in a non threatening context their scaly look and hissy heavy breathing sound are all indications of villainy which helped them in the ice warriors but which is a bit out of place and even quite funny here as the tardis has fallen down a mountain the doctor and jo seem stranded and have no choice but to enter peladon s palace as the outside is inhospitable these scenes putting the location in context are excellent if nothing else it explains why they stay indoors after joining the action a statue falls and nearly kills them hepesh warns them that it was a statue of their god aggedor and this is a sign that the diplomats are not wanted on peladon this encourages the doctor to stay and settle the crisis i think the problem with the curse of peladon is that it takes a while to get going this is one case where a first episode that mainly establishes the characters and setting before introducing peril at the cliffhanger doesn t work the only groundwork laid by the first episode is bringing the doctor into the action and arguing about diplomatic policy and there isn t much drama in either further the doctor seems to take it for granted that he ll eventually get the tardis back even though it fell quite a long way perhaps i just miss the days when getting back to the tardis was pivotal to the resolution of the story it seemed truer to the doctor s character somehow especially considering he s in a position where he might need to make a quick getaway as indeed he does at the end the doctor quickly finds himself accused of attacking arcturus by removing a vital component which jo is found with after finding it in the ice warriors s quarters the doctor is locked up but released into some tunnels where he ends up in aggedor s shrine naturally he is found there and his execution is immediately ordered for his sacriliege a tense cliffhanger fortunately the resolution promises action king peladon gives the doctor an alternative a fight to the death with the king s champion episode 3 is a strange one apparently gearing towards the story s climax with both the story s major action scene the doctor s fight and the disclosure of the villain hepesh hepesh offers the doctor a way out leading him instead into the path of the beast aggedor which is very real he hypnotises it but jo shows up and scares it away jo you stupid girl the fight itself is pretty good though in my head i was comparing it to its counterpart in the aztecs so thats not a great compliment the enclosed royal political nature of the story meant the aztecs was in my head throughout the story perhaps that s why i m hard on it after winning the fight and deciding to spare his opponent s life arcturus shoots the doctor but the lead ice warrior shoots him first as hepesh runs off it s revealed that he and arcturus were working together to stop peladon joining the federation with arcturus reaching a secret agreement with hepesh to trade for peladon s rare minerals this apparent resolution at the beginning of the final episode seems to come at the wrong time the only thing thats left to do is capture hepesh something that should only take a minute or two the fact that it s dragged out until the end of the episode turns out not to be the disappointment that it could have been in the intervening time the doctor goes to find aggedor again to confront hepesh with it and as a desperate hepesh tries to control aggedor he is killed by the beast how neat for the plot it s hard to come to a conclusion on the curse of peladon i wasn t keen on jo s subplot with peladon david troughton was clearly trying very hard in the role but he comes across as quite an inexperienced actor and katy manning oversells jo s conflicted emotions it s wrong wrong wrong and a pity because jo is great in the rest of the story jon pertwee gets to flex his singing voice and pulls off something i doubt many other doctors could ultimately out of all the studio bound dialogue driven stories this isn t one of the best the characters fail to come alive although alpha centauri is hilarious and thus the whole thing sort of flounders at four parts however it just about works horror quotient when the ice warriors are the good guys you know where the story is leaning it is quite atmospheric though comedy quotient pertwee gets a chance to be daft even with the threat of execution looming drama quotient i didn t care much about the diplomacy plot and was ambivalent about the conspiracy plot it chugged along fine otherwise a solid story if a tad boring and certainly no better than average 6 10 posted by david the wavid at 11 33 no comments wednesday 16 september 2009 day of the daleks previous viewings none talk about starting the new season with a bang the universe s most fearsome pepperpots are back after an astonishing five year absence to scare a new generation of kids with their deadly sink plungers okay so they re probably the same kids as before but it s certainly a new generation of doctor who one that has successfully broken away from the past such that coupled with the lengthy absence of the daleks makes it quite seem quite groundbreaking seeing the pertwee doctor and unit facing the show s biggest icon of the 60s which makes day of the daleks quite an oddity you d think that with the daleks being gone so long the producers would aim for a typical dalek story one that shows them in all their glory as people remember them at their peak a consequence of louis marks s story originally being written without the daleks in mind is that they re shoehorned into a rigid plot which doesn t leave much room for the daleks to make much impact dalek stories have always been special longer than four episodes containing a big confrontation with the doctor and usually being a turning point in the tenure of a companion or two as a dalek story it feels lacking because they feel like guests in their own story half heartedly integrated into a story that worked perfectly without them and indeed the daleks are probably the story s weakest aspect fortunately the rest of the story is very strong we finally leave the master behind as unit investigates a diplomat who has seen a ghost though he later denies it meanwhile the doctor and jo see future versions of themselves in the tardis indicating a stitch in time he and jo stay at sir reginald s house while he is away at a conference and soldiers from the future arrive to kill the diplomat as they believe his death will prevent the disastrous future they come from yep doctor who predicts the terminator i do love time paradox plots because they nearly always have twists they re sci fi s answer to murder mysteries the universe is the victim and the hapless protagonists are the killers the doctor is dropped into a situation to break the cycle of destruction we re drip fed revelations here with the true nature of the plot saved until near the climax but the surprise appearance of the daleks well they re in the title but you know what i mean and plenty of action keeps things zipping along until the doctor realises that by killing sir reginald the soldiers will be responsible for the very war they are trying to prevent perhaps because of the faster than usual pace of the story i was caught up in the action and didn t see this coming even though in retrospect it s totally obvious the future we see here brings back memories of the dalek invasion of earth desolation daleks and survivors trying to fight back it s an atmospheric setting for what little we see of it and in a way it s a shame that the story gives so much time over to the scenes in the present day because we sacrifice something different for something familiar further the majority of the future scenes are set in the control centre where the daleks discuss their plans to recapture the soldiers the daleks have odd voices calm almost polite it feels like after getting the voices pitch perfect in the troughton dalek stories we re back at square one and it s jarring to an extent it makes them not even seem like proper daleks they certainly don t act like them working with the ogrons and allowing future humans to live if they are useful they don t even rant about their superiority and the plot isn t about exterminating or destroying it s about preserving and saving which is just so un dalek to have a story with the most unique and distinct alien creature ever created for doctor who and make them seem so bland is quite a feat the conclusion sees the the ogrons and a few daleks travel to the past to kill the soldiers and thus protect their own history in the open air away from claustrophobic sets the fact that there are only three daleks is difficult to hide and they re anything but scary the ogrons are cool though convincing looking and believable and simplistic brutes which is all that s required of them certainly a step up from the robomen as unit holds them off the doctor evacuates the house of a chinese delegation and one of the soldiers blows it up with the daleks inside day of the daleks is a story that s better than i give it credit for the daleks are undeniably a let down but putting them aside there s little to complain about the pacing is quite unusual for the series and for once the story doesn t linger in one place or plot point for long and there aren t many pertwee stories you can say that for it would make a nice new series two parter with very few changes the other good thing about it is the characters for once pertwee is at the top of his game whether that s because he is having a good time making it or because the doctor has finally grown out of season 8 grouchiness i m not sure but it allows his doctor to be more playful which is fun jo gets lots to do both opposite the doctor and the controller the main guest of the story who bonds with jo to trick her into revealing the location of the soldiers but who later betrays the daleks who had kept him alive because he was one of the privileged few as dim as jo is sometimes okay a lot most of her idiotic moments come about from her trying to help the doctor so if nothing else her heart is in the right place plus katy manning is likeable in the role unit seems quite out of place in this story as their only job is to set up the conference part of the plot it s almost a shame that present day has to mean unit in this era as this is a story that could have done without them and devoted more time to exploring the future setting all in all jolly good show horror quotient the daleks are probably at their least scary here a story should be created around the daleks but here they re bolted onto a time travel story that doesn t leave much room for nazi allegories and moody lighting comedy quotient hmmm can t think of much though i liked the bit where the doctor knocks out the soldier then sips his wine very james bond drama quotient bits and bobs for the most part the story moves too fast to savour the drama and horror of the dalek run future as the dalek invasion of earth does then again we ve been there and done that so maybe it s not such a bad thing it s probably the only time i ll say this but here we have a classic story but then the daleks show up i love the daleks but some stories are better without them and this is one of them they could at least have got the voices right 9 10 posted by david the wavid at 18 02 no comments sunday 13 september 2009 the dæmons previous viewings none the dæmons is a story i ve wanted to see for ages from the way it s described i had it pegged as the better cousin of the claws of axos the unit family era in all its coziness but done right sitting snugly at the end of season 8 it s a five part story by robert sloman with heavy input by producer barry letts so we can expect mild exploration of a topical issue it all sounds so very the green death doctor who isn t hard sci fi by any means in fact things like the tardis and the sonic screwdriver are more magic than science so it could come off as a bit cheeky for the show to address the magic vs science issue putting itself firmly on the science side noting that anything remotely supernatural can be explained away by science it s in keeping with the character of the doctor and something the show has implied throughout its existence but never has the realm of the supernatural been dismissed so readily and at times none too subtly in such a manner that the doctor ...