So its clear that this story isn’t going to improve in my
opinion and the problems with this story are even more evident in this episode.
I think that Terence Dudley has not really grasped what makes a Doctor Who
story because he has written a story that manages to fill the entire running
time and yet only have one 10 second moment which has something interesting in
it. The problem would normally be that the writer doesn’t know what the new
Doctor is going to be like but on this occasion Terrence Dudley has totally
missed the mark.
First thing that comes to mind about just how wrong he got
it came with the dances. Now its not just one brief moment of dancing but there
are several minutes of this and the Doctor and Adric are watching them. It’s
nice to know that there isn’t any great rush to sort things out. The other
problem is that in between these pointless but visually nice moments, there is
a mystery about the ship that isn’t given nearly enough screen time.
The mystery about what the title actually means is something
that doesn’t really get resolved. It was mentioned in the reprise that they are
four days left before they get to earth. No real detail is given as to what
will happen when they get to earth but the word doomsday in the title could
have done with a bit of explanation instead of one of the dances.
The only time there is anything interesting is when Bigon
reveals that he is infact an android but sadly this comes so late in the episode
that I had lost any real excitement about it but I will say that this was a
much better cliffhanger than the first one. This is one of those short reviews
because so little happened that I just cant be bothered to write anything else so
that’s that for today.
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