(624) The Twin Dilemma - Part 2

I wondered whether the twins would improve in this episode. Sadly this like most things haven’t improved in this second episodes. The twins are just as annoying in this episode and I just a different version of this story existed where the twins don’t feature as much in it as they do or they could even have been recast. Again the stuff with the Doctor and Peri is the most entertaining aspect of this episode. Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant seem to have struck up a very different but just as entertaining as the one that Nicola Bryant had with Peter Davison.

The episode sees the Doctor and Peri finally join the main action but that’s not really saying much. The only advantage is that there are some fun scenes for the Doctor. Perhaps the most interesting scene is where Edgeworth is also known as Azmael meets the Doctor and we learn that he has met the Doctor before but in a previous incarnation. There is a bit where Lang is changing in the Doctor’s costume room and finds the exact same costume that Peri hid his gun charger pack. To be honest, this is the least of the stories problems although its one of the few things that didn’t involve the Doctor or Peri that actually registered with me.

The cliffhanger has the Doctor is trying to escape with Peri but the device used isn’t reliable and yet only Peri ends up the TARDIS just as she sees the place blow up and she starts sobbing. To be fair it’s a good cliffhanger but I have been so put off by what I have been watching that it just didn’t affect me in the way what people were expecting. Despite being given a dud story to start his tenure off in, Colin Baker is showing how good he is even though he’s not being allowed to. Halfway through the episode and the story is just as bad as I remember and I cant see this about to change at any point in the next two episodes.

Before I end this review, at the moment the story. The rating for this story so far is 7.10 which currently places this story in 122^nd place. As is stands An Unearthly Child is the best new Doctor story with 7.79 in 5h place, Spearhead From Space is second with 7.72 in 8^th place overall, Castrovalva has 7.58 and is 34^th with Robot getting 7.56 in 40^th place. Patrick Troughton’s first story got 7.24 and is currently in 110^th place.