From: jogulin@pub_one.fia.dmg.ml.com (Joseph Ogulin)
Subject: ARCHIVE: Review of the JN-T Era of Doctor Who, Part 6
Organization: The Rift from Here to There
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 13:38:13 GMT

And part 6, to complete my 2 for the day...

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The Trial of a Time Lard...er, Lord...
 
 
JN-T breaks his promise  never  to  do  a  thematic  season.
(Strike one...)
Pip and Jane Baker return. (Strike two...)
There is no ending. (Strike three, you're out, we hope...)
 
 
Oops...wrong kind of innings...
 
 
The Mysterious Planet -
          Lost:  one planet.
          Name:  Earth.
          Last seen:   position  of  Sol  III,  in  Mutter's
          Spiral.
          Any information regarding  the  location  of  this
          planet  is  to be sent to you know Who, in the you
          know WHAT, Who knows when...(does  Who  ever  know
          when?)
 
     Robert Holmes material mucked about in by  JN-T.   Need
we say more?  Lots of potential, but never gels.
 
 
Mindwarp -
          Need:  one body to house one mind due to expanding
          brain and non-expanding cranial cavity.
          Found:  one body (and what a body! ;-) ).
          Lost:  one companion and Yrcarnos's mind.
          WARNING:  Matrix played with.
 
     Eh....     Redeeming    feature:     Brian     Blessed.
Redeeming/detrimental feature:  good-bye, "Legs".
 
 
Terror of the Vervoids -
          Lost:  one script editor.
          Found:  new writers.
          Problem:  Pip and Jane Baker.
          For compilation of plot devices refer  to  (so  to
          speak):   The  Seeds  of Doom, Fury from the Deep,
          and our vegetable gardens.
 
     Review: .  Mel is kinda cute, though. ;-)
 
 
The Ultimate Foe, part 1 -
          Lost:  one mind.
          Found:  you know who.
          Place:  on the TV screen/matrix.
          Recovered:  train of thought.
          Problem:  Robert Holmes died.  :-(
          Any information as to where the potential and  you
          know  who's characterization went, go back in time
          and finish this.
 
     First fifteen minutes is vintage RH.  You know who even
seems to be his old self for a change.  Then the dynamic duo
take over...oh well, life's a bitch, then you marry one, and
then you die.
 
 
The Ultimate Foe, part 2 -
          Lost:  one plot.
          Not found:  any potential.
          For information, please ask Colin Baker  what  was
          so great about it.
          Missing:  one ending and one amalgamation.
 
     Review:  huh?  Only to be surpassed by something yet to
come...
 
 
Season overall -
 
     See top.
 
 
 
Seasonal trivia:
 
-    Where do P&JB take over for RH and ES?
 
-    Name five stories which this season replaced.
 
 
                                          --Only one left...
 

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==> "You never f**king know the answer when it's important." --The Doctor <==
Joe Ogulin

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