Jubilee is one of those stories that will go down as a classic story. Robert Shearman is fast becoming a steady and reliable pair of hands to write a damn good story. Its quite fitting that the first story of the 40th year of Doctor Who should be a Dalek story.
The story sees an alien creature who has spent centuries being tortured in the Tower of London. He is humiliated to the point where you actually feel sorry for it. The Doctor encounters Rochester and his wife who he frequently belittles who rule over the citizens of the country with an almost dictatorship feel. This story does start getting a bit too complicated and smart for its own good. The changes between the 1903 and 2003 scenes were coming close to being blurred and ruin the story. However it doesn’t quite get to that stage.
Its quite rare that a story would actually spook me. I found the scenes where the Dalek was being tortured to be very unpleasant. The violence that the Dalek is threatened with somehow is no less that they would threaten us with if the tables were turned. This conflict of morals is what makes this story stand out. Shearman has managed to ask ourselves if we would be willing to torture or humiliate something or someone if we had the power knowing for well that they wouldn’t give a moments thought before doing it to us.
Colin Baker and Maggie Stables put in their strongest performance since Project: Twilight. They were simply mesmerising. The moment when the Doctor first encounters the creature in the tower and discovers it a Dalek. It was well written and more importantly well acted out by Colin Baker.
Jubilee belongs in the top 10 of anyone’s favourite Doctor Who story. It has Daleks and more importantly it has four episode that has a lot of action and more importantly a lot of plot which is helped with some wonderful music and sound effects. Put simply Jubilee is a classic story.
The story sees an alien creature who has spent centuries being tortured in the Tower of London. He is humiliated to the point where you actually feel sorry for it. The Doctor encounters Rochester and his wife who he frequently belittles who rule over the citizens of the country with an almost dictatorship feel. This story does start getting a bit too complicated and smart for its own good. The changes between the 1903 and 2003 scenes were coming close to being blurred and ruin the story. However it doesn’t quite get to that stage.
Its quite rare that a story would actually spook me. I found the scenes where the Dalek was being tortured to be very unpleasant. The violence that the Dalek is threatened with somehow is no less that they would threaten us with if the tables were turned. This conflict of morals is what makes this story stand out. Shearman has managed to ask ourselves if we would be willing to torture or humiliate something or someone if we had the power knowing for well that they wouldn’t give a moments thought before doing it to us.
Colin Baker and Maggie Stables put in their strongest performance since Project: Twilight. They were simply mesmerising. The moment when the Doctor first encounters the creature in the tower and discovers it a Dalek. It was well written and more importantly well acted out by Colin Baker.
Jubilee belongs in the top 10 of anyone’s favourite Doctor Who story. It has Daleks and more importantly it has four episode that has a lot of action and more importantly a lot of plot which is helped with some wonderful music and sound effects. Put simply Jubilee is a classic story.
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