Product: Doctor Who [VHS] (1975)
Rating: 4.0
iffy if, what's thu dif?
This beginning season of Peter Davison was a good watch, but what's with all the "ifs"? It's over done. Aside from Tegan and Nyssa's iritating lines and Adric's whining, The Doctor(what little we saw of him) was very good, even this first Peter Davison episode. The Castrovalvans were reminiscent of Trakanites, very wise and mysterious(for lack of a better word). I do not know if it is directing, lack of funds or what, but the compaginions seemed to be missing something they all had in the few Tom Baker episodes they did. Tegan was the only real compaignion and very well done by Janet Fielding, the others were wooden at best, they are not bad actors(see Keeper of Traken, Logopolis and E-space) but not enough attention was given to them after the Doctor's regenoration, too much excitement about the new DW I guess. However, This season had some very good episodes, this one being the best of this season besides 'Kinda' and 'Snakedance'. 1983 was a much stronger year and 1984 was different entirely and as far as production was very well done, but not to my personal taste. Too much negative gloom and doom. Like Blake's 7 or on a newer and completely different topic, 'First Wave'.