The Seeds of Death

8 Jun 2005, 12:10 pm
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The Seeds of Death 1:

Firstly, I have to confess - my review of this story is bound to be biased. In the early eighties, I started watching the show with the repeats of Carnival of Monsters and the Three Doctors. Within a couple of years, we got the Five Doctors as well. As a young child this was all I needed to decide that my favourite Doctor was Patrick Troughton. By miles.

A couple of years later, as the VHS sell through break through was beginning, Seeds of Death was released on video, for a whopping great price like £24.95 or something (clearly only for the rental market). But, because my family knew how much I adored Troughton, this became my birthday present. I remember a glorious day sat down in my living room in Epping, watching these magical black and white images, the first authentic Troughton story I saw.

So it's always had a special place in my heart. I know the story isn't regarded vastly highly by fandom, but sod em. I've never claimed it's a favourite or a classic, but this one means something to me. Even with that dodgy extra who runs in and looks for his mark before getting killed.

As first episodes go, it's rather an odd one (though, it's going to be beaten in oddness by the next opening episode, iirc). The long time it takes to introduce the regulars is fairly obvious - eight minutes pass by - but what's slightly harder to spot is the way they're sidelined at the end of the episode. The moment Radnor comes in, they pretty much literally walk out of the way, hiding at the back of the set, no more lines. Strange. The weird thing is that it still does feel like a Doctor Who story - he's clearly not the lead in this episode, that role shifts between Osgood and Radnor - but you never feel he's not central. There's a degree to which it feels like the Doctor and co. have muscled in on a script that didn't feature them, but the characters are clearly themselves and defined, so they don't feel lost (the Doctor's winning over of Eldred is a case in point, it being one of those scenes that really is what the character is all about... it's not so much that he manipulates Eldred on side, it's more guileless than that, he connects with him - a wonderful scene).

This episode is mainly about establishing the characters and the setting, rather than starting the plot properly. Structurally there's no reason why Osgood's confrontation with the Warriors couldn't take place across the entire episode - the set up with Locke's death essentially just reprises what we've seen at the beginning, and the Ice Warriors themselves could establish a communications blackout that would still cause Earth the same panic (in deed, with a stealth invasion, that should be the first thing they do).

The treatment of the Ice Warriors is a little odd too. It's hard to see why they bother concealing what they look like when the weaponry is identical and so are the voices. It's a bit like if they'd had Osgood turn negative after a grating voice said 'Exterminate'. The audience won't exactly be scratching their heads. Still, it does sort of work. I can't remember if I've said this before, but when people complain that stories like 'Death to the Daleks' have the word 'Dalek' in their title and expect us to be surprised when they turn up, they're missing the point. The return of a monster is a big dramatic moment, that's slightly thrown away if it just happens in the middle (compare with Revelation and Rememberance, which just have the Daleks turn up). The monsters have to be given a big moment, and the start and middle of the episode is too early, because it unbalances it. The cliffhanger is the only point you can give it the weight it deserves.

Characterisation in this story is first rate. Fewsham remains one of my favourite guest stars, a realistic and utterly plausible character of the type we've rarely seen. I always get annoyed when the character is referred to as cowardly. He behaves in exactly the way I reckon most of us would, trying to stay alive. And the gorgeous tragedy of the character is that he's an inch away from not having to be involved in the story at all at the beginning. Had the airlock alert come ten seconds later, he'd have been on Earth. Osgood also gets a good shot, for a bit part character (his little smug grin in Slaar's face is wonderful, even if it's slightly lessened by him clearly crapping himself when the death order goes out - surely the point of it is that he knows he's sacrificing himself?). Eldred is nicely petulant, and Radnor at the very least seems interesting. Everyone else is pretty much stock, even the cold Miss Kelly, but they're nicely performed.

There's a degree with this episode that the direction tries a little too hard - there are a few too many wacky angles that draw attention to themselves for me, Kelly behind the panel, a long low shot on Osgood, etc. - but it is good to see an episode that is at least making the effort to be interesting, and when it works it works (the sequence with Kelly behind the frosted panel is followed by a marvellous shot where she steps out and we see Radnor framed in a doorway behind her - beautiful, but it a way that serves the story rather than mildly detracting from it).

Still, an enjoyable enough episode, though not obviously with a plot yet...


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Welcome back!

I love Seeds of Death too. It's the first Troughton I saw and
it holds up as well no I'm an adult as it did when the video
came out.

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#199 8 Jun 2005, 10:53 pm
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Day by Day is back after a long hiatus... YAY!

My only regret is that there wasn't a Radio Times cover to go along with its return, though I hope you appreciated that we didn't try and create a "Day By Day in Distress" album during the break!

As for "Seeds of Death": To be honest, this story bored me when I first saw it, but when I finally got around to seeing it again on DVD, I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. I personally love the little psychedelic influences from the late 60's, as reflected in the camera shots and such. Plus - the bursting seeds of foam is still a pretty eerie image...


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#200 9 Jun 2005, 6:32 pm
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Seeds of Death 2:

I dunno - if there's one thing I think is a clear mistake in this story, it's the fact that we're two episodes in and the regular's haven't really connected with the plot yet. The moon is the clear base of the action, and you can't help but wonder why Hayles chose to strand them so far away. Especially when they connect so little with the action on Earth as well. After having been pretty much ignored by the majority of the guest cast last time, they key in to the action very quickly here, taking over the rocket... but within moments of them leaving this thread becomes irrelevant, as Ms Kelly is able to T-mat up to the moon. Basically, the rocket itself is simply a plot device to occupy the regulars in the first couple of episodes and deliver them to the action, and doesn't actually connect with or alter the central story. Wouldn't it have been so much simpler just to have them land there in the first place? Then you could actually kick start the main plot a little - the hero at the moment seems to be Phipps struggling against dim witted Ice-Warriors (his hiding scenes are the worst directed moments in the story - apart from the fact that one really has to have seen him, if you were being pursued around an enclosed environment by armed monsters, would you have your back to the door?). As it is, the time has to be filled in other ways - the strange non-tension moment when communications with the rocket break-down, break back, break down again is just weird. I don't care how much sound or fury is made of that rocket, it has no point, and the regular cast aren't involved in the plot at all yet. That's just stupid.

Beyond that... there's a weird tendency for scenes to go beyond their useful end point - most blatantly with the first scene: 'now you know what will happen if you disobey'. Dramatic pan down to Locke's body, dramatic music sting. End of scene surely. But for some reason, they decide to labour the point with Slaar adding 'You will die' in a really jarring shot. Presumably, because pointing to the corpse at Fewsham's feet didn't make the point clear enough, he might have thought it meant a smacked bottom or something (and whilst we're at it, wouldn't Osgood's death have given him the same clue? Especially since he spent the whole of part one helping because he 'didn't want to die like that'. Once again the strange doubling up of, essentially, one character becomes apparent - you really don't need Osgood and Locke) . There is another one later on, with Slaar adding 'soon' needlessly at the end of another scene (obviously brevity is not an Ice Warrior characteristic).

The only other massive plot problem is one I noticed even at age eight, or whatever I was when I first saw this - Fewsham's explanation of the problem doesn't match what Locke said on the monitor - he claims that Osgood killed Locke before dying - but Locke cleary told Earth that Osgood was dead. It's an annoying bit of sloppy writing. Miss Kelly's supposed to be a genius, and she doesn't go 'huh?' Is there no more convincing explanation - why not blame Phipps for the murders (he may still be alive, but if he turns up he's still going to blow the gaffe).

All these niggles aside, the story's still enjoyable - the characterisation, direction and dialogue are impeccable, with each character feeling very individual (well, except Locke, but he's dead now so it barely matters). Phipps is a celebration of human ingenuity that the series rarely does (it's nice to have someone who can survive without the Doctor for a change) even if the fighting the monsters really ought to be being done by the Doctor and not a supporting character this late. And when you're being entertained this well, the rubbishy structure and plotting really doesn't matter that much.

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more! theese are very good


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#202 11 Jun 2005, 2:52 am
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I am pleased.

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#203 11 Jun 2005, 7:57 am
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The colonial is also pleased!

Welcome back to your thread, Dorney. I've been looking forward to your return in this part of the forum.

Have you seen any of the news series as it has been airing?
Forgive the interruption, back to you, sir!



-C

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#204 11 Jun 2005, 11:18 am
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Thanks for the kind words people. And I was very fortunate, whilst in Frankfurt, that the flat was provided with a Sky satellite, meaning I got all BBC channels (and fortunately, no ITV). This meant that I was able to watch each and every episode. Sometimes on a Saturday night (if we really couldn't wait - Dalek, for example) sometimes on a Sunday afternoon. Tonight however is going to be the first time I'll have watched a new series episode as it's transmitted since Rose, however.

Back to business then...

Seeds of Death 3:

Another reason, I have to confess, why I'm fond of this story came with the dvd release. At a point about half way through the commentary for this episode Terrance Dick says words to the effect of 'Some fan or other wrote a thesis about running down corridors'. And I must admit. It was me.

It's not quite an accurate statement - it was a series of articles for a fanzine I used to write for, and I only managed to get to the end of the Troughton years before the fanzine folded. Also, it was a bit more tongue in cheek than that comment suggests - I was rather wanting to send up the po-faced anality of stuff like The Frame, which had a series of articles covering Dalek design - one three page article for every single Dalek story. So each article covered 'who ran', 'corridor design' 'running style', 'where are they going?' etc. etc. I'm still rather proud of it.

And of course it's fair enough that it turns up in the commentary for this episode, which is probably the only really really great corridor running episode in all Who. The central sequence with Troughton on the run isn't played as filler, for once, and that's why it works brilliantly. It's a showcase for Troughton's sublime physical comedy, Ferguson's inventive direction, and the joyfully melodramatic soundtrack (which I've neglected talking about - so more later). It feels like it's designed to entertain the viewer rather than merely pad the episode out, and it's a great deal of fun. It's rather wonderful how Ferguson really manages to squeeze so much out of the limited sets (he's clearly re-using about two backdrops, but it doesn't really feel like that), and the mad mirrored backgrounds are really striking. Add to this the wonderful punchline ('I'm a genius') and you have two glorious minutes. Something of a shame that they immediately follow it with a fairly standard, bland run round for Jamie and Zoe, but hey. Those initial two minutes are too good to be spoiled.

Can't help but wonder why they don't just kill the Doctor - drag him into the control room, and then gas him pretty instantly. Waste of time, surely?

I was a little harsh on the storyline of this last time, I think. It's becoming clear that the 'plot' (I use the word loosely) is following the standard 'epic' or 'quest' template - heroes are confronted by one problem. They solve it. Confronted by another problem. They solve that. Hence every second they seem to be given a new minor problem - Phipp's bulb blows, the rocket engines are knackered. It would probably work better if these really tied in to the central storyline because the Ice Warriors are the only people driving the plot forward at the moment, they are effectively the script's protagonists - it's only in the last stages of this episode that the problems begin to be directly influenced by their invasion . It's not really going anywhere yet (if you want to summarise the plot of the first three episodes it's: The Ice Warriors call in the repair men because they can't start the invasion til they fix the boiler), but the introduction of the seed pods does promise an actual plot, as opposed to a succession of set pieces. Fair do's though - most six parters try to fit their length by desperately filling up the later episodes - here the padding's right at the start, before you realise what the story focus is. Works quite well, surprisingly.

I do have to praise that music though. Gloriously full of stings and bass rumbles, lots of pace and, seemingly, glockenspiels, it's one of the most glorious camp frenzies the series has unleashed - and I particualrly love the way it seems to be put in at any moment that's even vaguely dramatic. If anything, this probably helps the script to work, as it gives the script a heightened tension, that to be fair it doesn't really deserve. Suddenly, Zoe climbing down a ladder to check out the engine feels like a horrific matter of life and death, and Phipps changing his bulb is the height of tension. No wonder the whole thing feels like a lot of silly fun. Sod all's happening, but I'm not bored yet.


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#205 13 Jun 2005, 11:58 am
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Seeds of Death 4:

Well, as my visiting Aussie relatives depart for a London bus tour, looks like I've got time to squeeze this in.

Have the Ice Warriors been affected in the slightest by the arrival of the TARDIS crew? Seemingly not. It struck me at the end of this episode that Zoe's attempt to turn up the heating is the first pro-active moment they've had in the story - two and a half episodes about getting to the moon, then they're mainly focused on getting away from it. All the while the plot proper is going on around them - the sending of the seeds, and the Earth response to it. It's very strange to have the regulars confined to a subplot for the story so far. Admittedly, it doesn't really help that pretty much the moment they arrive on the scene, Troughton takes a holiday, but that isn't really an excuse for Jamie just hanging round waiting for Ice Warriors to enter the Solar Energy Room (why do they keep popping in there for a look around?) The only reason this doesn't seem to matter is the wonderful urgency of the music, which gets to accompany Phipps and Jamie walking down a corridor this time. Phipp's padding attack - sorry, panic attack - when he's with Zoe is a clear indication that the script is running out of hoops to jump the characters through, and with the Doctor out of action they can't really get involved in the plot proper, and it just leaves the story treading water. So far, you could drop the regulars from the story and not change the actual plot one bit.

The plot proper is centred entirely around the Earth, Slaar and Fewsham. I don't think I've mentioned Alan Bennion as Slaar so far, and that's something of an oversight, as he really is rather terrific. Commanding and menacing but without ham, it's a remarkably restrained and chilling performance, and one of the story highlights (along with Fewsham).

With T-mat fixed, we finally get a sense of what the story is going to be about, with the seed pods - which despite the insistence of everyone and his uncle that that's what they look like, look nothing like seed pods at all, more like balloons. And it's kind of intriguing, but as yet not all that menacing. Even when the Ice Warrior appears and smashes the booth open in a fabulously dramatic moment, it sort of gets spoilt by the fact that the Ice Warrior just shuffles about on the spot for about a minute, with nothing to do. It's an astonishingly poor piece of direction - astonishing because of the high quality level Ferguson's been pulling off (though, it has to be said, this strange meshing together of the good and the poor continues elsewhere in the episode - the beautifully shot silhouette cliffhanger is juxtaposed with the rather badly shot sequence where Phipps is killed, and it isn't really clear that's what's happened). I really want the main cast to be leading the plot, not the aliens. They're why I watch the show after all.

Still fun, but it needs a bit of direction and purpose now.


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#206 14 Jun 2005, 9:13 pm
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The Ice Warriors are rather class, and is it this episode or the next one which features that brilliant sequence of the Warrior stomping about the fields and forests? There's one particular shot that actually quite unnerved me the first time I saw it, and Doctor Who doesn't usually do that for me - it's when some soldiers are attacking the fungus, and the camera zooms in past a soldier to focus on the Warrior standing in the background in the forests, whom you don't actually notice until that point. Makes it seem as if it's appeared from nowhere, and the way it just watches the soldiers before leisurely gunning them down is quite chilling. Unfortunately there's the bit a few moments later where a soldier, calling in to control, gets spotted by the Warrior and then minces for a few steps before standing still in the open so that he can get shot. Oh well. Can't have everything. There's a lot of "standing in plain sight" stuff in this story actually...

And, yeah, the Doctor and co. don't really seem to do much - which continues with the next story, in which they're stuffed into a subplot until around about episode 6. Still, I actually rather enjoy "The Space Pirates"...

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#207 14 Jun 2005, 10:07 pm
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The Ice Warriors are rather class, and is it this episode or the next one which features that brilliant sequence of the Warrior stomping about the fields and forests? There's one particular shot that actually quite unnerved me the first time I saw it, and Doctor Who doesn't usually do that for me - it's when some soldiers are attacking the fungus, and the camera zooms in past a soldier to focus on the Warrior standing in the background in the forests, whom you don't actually notice until that point. Makes it seem as if it's appeared from nowhere, and the way it just watches the soldiers before leisurely gunning them down is quite chilling. Unfortunately there's the bit a few moments later where a soldier, calling in to control, gets spotted by the Warrior and then minces for a few steps before standing still in the open so that he can get shot. Oh well. Can't have everything. There's a lot of "standing in plain sight" stuff in this story actually...

That was this episode, and bless you for mentioning it, I was completely wrong for missing it out. I concur with both your points. The really wonderful thing about the Ice Warrior shot is that it's one of those rare moments of an iconic monster on location, and it's loaded with menace (in contrast to the famous appearances in DIOE and Invasion, the monster is interacting with humans, whilst in a recognizably quasi-realistic environment - that's the tension. Rather than invading a deserted street, the Ice Warriors are tunning up in your local park, behind you, when you don't expect it, out of nowhere).

Yes, and it's a shame that the supporting artist is a bit rubbish, and is given the pathetically wimpy execution - mind you that's typical of a lot of the extras in this story. The technicians who arrive with Miss Kelly are killed in an embarrisingly poorly staged way, and there's a superbly useless bunch running round meaninglessly at the start of this episode...


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#208 15 Jun 2005, 12:38 pm
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The Seeds of Death 5:

Suddenly realises that he's spelt the title wrong since episode two...

The plot kicks off in this episode, with the whole thing feeling very full. If you count off the plot points in this episode, you've probably got as many as the rest of the story (weather control, Fewsham's redemption, the cure for the fungus). Does make it very strange that the character Grigson turns up so early on. He's only really there as padding, even if he does act as a sounding board for exposition in a moderately funny scene. This episode doesn't really need the padding. In deed, I'm beginning to notice that Radnor and Eldred are running out of things to do as well, and haven't really had much actual plot of their own since episode two. Eldred benefits from the Doctors return, but has to sacrifice some of his personality to do so - you only need one smart scientist around at a time - and considering that for the rest of the story he's been reduced to spouting exposition, this is something of a shame.

The most interesting aspect of this episode remains Fewsham. In this episode he manages to acheive redemption - but, most intriguingly, the character retains ambiguity to the last. It's never exactly clear why he decides to be the one to stay on the moonbase - there are only really two options: 1) To try and defeat the Warriors, 2) To avoid trial, and the script never makes it clear for us which it is. Bear in mind that the precise scheme he eventually comes up with can't be in his head when he makes the decision to stay (and if he was simply trapped by virtue of the switch and wanted to stay alive, he could have hidden in the ducts and the Warriors would have been none the wiser). Ultimately, it's clear that he makes the decision when pressed - neatly set up by his attempted rescue of Zoe at the start - but the fascination of the character remains in the unknowability of it. Personally, I think the shot of him staring contemplatively at the t-mat booth suggests that even he isn't clear and it could be a combination of the two. It has to be said that the more you think about it, in a story populated by fairly blandly drawn and interchangable characters, Fewsham stands out a mile as being engagingly complex and real.

Once again, there's a really crap extra in 'weather control', dying in an awkwardly directed bit (Ferguson seems great with proper actors, but he does find it hard getting anything out of the background artists). And whilst we're at it, if you were making a weather control station, why would you only make the controls 'wet' or 'dry'? Variety is the spice of life you know. Furthermore, if this weather control station's all that hot, notice that the Ice Warrior has to change every single lever from 'wet' to 'dry'. Doesn't that mean it should be raining, and all the fungus would have died out? And are we to assume this piddling little box of switches in an english wood controls the weather for the entire northern hemisphere?

Generally, however, this is a terrific episode, fast moving and with great imagery (again, the silhouette is used brilliantly in the Slaar/Fewsham confrontation, and the hidden Jamie/Zoe with advancing Ice Warrior bit is gorgeous - even if it seems with the structure that the Ice Warrior is hanging around for about half an hour or so staring at the wall). There are one or two glaring problems - note how easily everyone forgets poor old Phipps. They so look like they care - but with the plot kicking into high gear you hardly mind. Slightly strange that we're only moments into understanding the actual plot before we're basically told how it's all going to be solved (water and a decoy), but that's really a consequence of waiting so long before knocking the plot into high gear.


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#209 20 Jun 2005, 5:28 pm
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There's something about "a wood" that makes it so much funnier than saying "a forest" and I don't know what it is.

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#210 20 Jun 2005, 8:57 pm
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The Seeds of Death 6:

Well, this is rather a fun episode. Starts off oddly, it has to be said. And I don't mean the re-edited ending (one, which to be honest, I don't have a problem with - it's a shame they didn't just put the about to burst bubble in earlier, cos all of the scenes with Troughton outside don't really change). I mean the way that the first nine minutes of the episode (I know it's nine, I read the counter) are entirely about tying off a subplot - the invading Ice Warrior - to the degree that any characters and scenes from the main plot are shoved off. Radnor, Ms Kelly, Eldred and Slaar don't appear until a third of the way through (and when they do, they're all pretty much written out of the plot instantly, bar the last).

Bizarrely though, it sort of works. It helps that the basic mechanisms for the Warrior's defeat have already been established, so we're not building to the climax, we're inside the climax already, and this is quite a tense and exciting diversion. Also, a lot of the funniest stuff in the story turns up here (the sequence in the Solar energy room with the regulars looking for the door key is genuinely rather funny - especially when the Doctor locates it saying 'oh, it's that one. It's got 'shut' written on it.' and closing the door just as the Warrior arrives, which they're almost too cool to have noticed). I suspect this is the Dicks influence, as these last few episodes are noticeably wittier. Shame there's a lot of poorly choreographed extras, again - particular culprits: the guards who run up, shoot at the Warrior until he turns round and then leg it... apart from two who just don't move. As if they're waiting to get shot. Which the extras in question are, of course. If you can avoid getting too het up with that, it's a nice little set piece.

After that's out of the way, we get back to the main characters. If you ignore his dramatic hissing, Slaar is something of an inept villain. If we ignore the fact that he never really seems to be that bothered that there are loads of humans running around the base for the first four episodes (beyond saying 'get him' in regards to Phipps, he just seems to forget about them, or even be aware that his troopers are getting regularly killed - in deed, just to underline how little the regulars connect to the invasion plot in those episodes, it is probable he doesn't know Jamie and Zoe actually exist), he keeps strutting off to his spaceship to make invasion plans - carefully leaving the transmitter going, just in case anyone wants to switch it off - or just hanging around hissing - and then never even double checks the transmitter when the Doctor's been fiddling, just takes him at his word! Come on! Even Rago and Toba wouldn't have made that mistake. Well, actually, they might...

Doesn't the Doctor's portable solar thingummy count as him carrying a gun? Sure he's not using bullets, or lasers, but where's the difference exactly? I'm not sure.

The plot is rather satisfyingly concluded. The need for both a rocket and t-mat for the plan's success is particularly neat, and structurally, the final confrontation between Slaar and the Doctor is exactly what's needed - considering the remove the regulars and the villains have been operating on, this final marrying of the two is satisfying. Compare with, say, The Fifth Element, where Bruce Willis and Gary Oldman never actually meet. Whilst the whole 'get another human - and don't kill it' thing is a bit contrived, it doesn't matter, as every villain needs to know they've been beaten, how they're beaten, and be put in their place. A villain so removed from the hero, so isolated from the defeat, isn't satisfying. I've been watching Columbo again recently, and this is a classic Columbo style ending, with the smug Slaar underestimating his opponent fatally.

So all in all, a bit plotless, but undeniably entertaining. And it does have one of the most terrifying moments in Who history. Right at the end of the credits. The phrase: Next Week, The Space Pirates.

Lummy.


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#211 21 Jun 2005, 5:27 pm
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Hurrah! I look forward to your views on this "seminal" story. I actually quite like it myself, but I reckon there's a lot of scope for comedy in an in-depth review of it, exemplified by typical dry Dorney delivery. Splendid.

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“I am only borrowing this. I’m Ben Chatham” before expertly taking off into the clouds.

- "Face of Death" by Sparacus


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#212 22 Jun 2005, 1:27 am
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Well, I've just listened to part one on a car journey home. I had intended to give it a write up now but... I think I'm to tired to do it justice, frankly.