The Skull of Sobek is typically Marc Platt. This is the guy who wrote the very complicated stories such as Ghostlight and Loups-Garoux. Unfortunately this story is very slow and dull. With this being the 10th story featuring the Doctor and Lucie its nice that their relationship is starting to move on. After the unusual Brave New Town story the previous month it was unfortunate that this story ruins the good start that the series made.
The story setting of a sanctuary of imperfect symmetry might sound like a good place to base a story but unfortunately nothing of any note happens. Sure there are some interesting themes like focusing on balance and symmetry and also the Crocodillians are a nice creation but at the end of the day there’s nothing fantastic about them. After 50 minutes I was rather disappointed with what this story produced. It was the same feeling that I had with Valhalla which was the last story that Platt wrote.
Despite the poor story the actors do manage to make it half enjoyable. Paul McGann and Sheridan Smith do their best and it was nice to see a bit more fear from Lucie. Sean Biggerstaff (who previously appeared in Shada) was quite good as Crocodillian Snabb and Barbara Flynn was another good casting decision as Sister Chalice. That character was one of the best characters in the story. The only good thing about this story was the use of At Malik. The guy has a very good voice for radio and he’s been in a ton of things like Inspector Morse and more recently Holby City.
Unfortunately as you can probably gather I am not fond of this story. Maybe in a few years time I might grow to start liking it. It’s definitely weaker than the other weak story from series 1 Immoral Beloved.
The story setting of a sanctuary of imperfect symmetry might sound like a good place to base a story but unfortunately nothing of any note happens. Sure there are some interesting themes like focusing on balance and symmetry and also the Crocodillians are a nice creation but at the end of the day there’s nothing fantastic about them. After 50 minutes I was rather disappointed with what this story produced. It was the same feeling that I had with Valhalla which was the last story that Platt wrote.
Despite the poor story the actors do manage to make it half enjoyable. Paul McGann and Sheridan Smith do their best and it was nice to see a bit more fear from Lucie. Sean Biggerstaff (who previously appeared in Shada) was quite good as Crocodillian Snabb and Barbara Flynn was another good casting decision as Sister Chalice. That character was one of the best characters in the story. The only good thing about this story was the use of At Malik. The guy has a very good voice for radio and he’s been in a ton of things like Inspector Morse and more recently Holby City.
Unfortunately as you can probably gather I am not fond of this story. Maybe in a few years time I might grow to start liking it. It’s definitely weaker than the other weak story from series 1 Immoral Beloved.
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