Janet Fielding and Mark Strickson react
after being told what they can expect to
be doing the entire story
would someone please tell me what exactly any of this has to do with this supposed trilogy?
it actually blew Norma Norman's mind when the end of the story came around and no one in the plot really had anything to do with the Black Guardian whatsoever. if anything, maybe the Black Guardian contrived the TARDIS's "landing" there, but wouldn't that mean that he facilitated the Doctor averting the end of the universe?? just poorly thought out.
would someone please tell me what exactly Tegan and Turlough contributed to the plot of this story?
would someone please explain to me how a ship manned by a dead pilot jumped from the big bang to the "present day" and managed to dock at Terminus?
would someone tell me who of the production staff saw that Garm costume and said, "yeah, that looks fine. could the actor wearing it walk like a man in a mask that can't see at all? that would make it perfect! and give it a dumb voice too..."?
if this had been Nyssa's costume all along,
they'd surely have had higher ratings.
Nyssa in undergarments made this one of my favorite Fifth Doctor stories of childhood, but i guess i require a little more in the realm of actual content these days, as it completely failed to be more than minimally entertaining. it starts off promising, but once they leave the TARDIS the pace goes to shit. a few interesting sci-fi ideas hanging around that don't fulfill their promise. the Vanir are a credible, well-characterized dystopian lot, with their glowstick-drug slavery and space skeleton armor, and the concept of the fuel dump creating the big bang is at least typical of the type of O RLY? stories us DW fans are used to being served. somehow the whole thing turns out less than the sum of it's parts.
Go ahead, make Norma Norman's day.
one suspects that the crew of the pirate ship's quick egress had less to do with Terminus being contaminated than simply getting rid of Olvir. he appears to be a dropout of the Paul Darrow school of acting...
the Vanir should've been able to tell Nyssa wasn't one of their lepers bc her hair wasn't teased out- one of the surest signs that you've been infected with lazar's disease...
and exactly how did Nyssa get infected when Tegan was positively groped by a dozen lepers and Nyssa never explicitly came into contact with them??
Tegan is a character well-known for showing her ass (figuratively) but i was amazed that she somehow managed to spend an entire story doing nothing but showing it to Turlough (literally.)
the Doctor himself left very little impression on me in this story - i can't remember much about what he even did, besides hanging out with space pirate gal and explaining the backstory to us.
as soon as Nyssa reveals that she could create an endless supply of Hydromel, all these calloused and ruthless Vanir are suddenly amiable and compassionate? riiiiiight.
a spinoff about the Garm and his ongoing space hospital romance with Nyssa
never captured the imagination of BBC execs, but surely would've been more
fun to watch than Scrubs.
the music
quite the opposite from the previous story, they're using all the right sounds (considering the time period) to play all the wrong music.
the bottom line:
Norma Norman said this was the sexiest episode of DW she's seen yet, not just bc of Nyssa's striptease but Tegan's well-restrained, heaving breast.and besides, i've since determined that she has a bit of a thing for Nyssa so individual results may vary. watching this made me doubt my ability to maintain this blog - if i can't handle this, how will i fare when it's time to watch The Twin Dilemma or Paradise Towers? i soldier on.
the DW Heretic rating: 6/10
NOW WE KNOW, DON'T WE!! THIS IS A LEPER SHIP!!!
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