Its been 14 months since the awful Nekromanteia. Its almost long enough for me to want a Fifth Doctor adventure with Peri and Erimem. Not that the previous story was their fault but their tainted by association. The Axis of Insanity is written by Simon Furman and he manages to resurrect the team that has become quite a nice combination. The Axis is something that was created by the Timelords to prevent alternate timelines from contaminating the primary timelines. This is quite a good idea and this is where my hopes for the story started to climb.
As with any Doctor Who story there is a bad guy and in this story it’s the Jester. The Jester is very well played by Garrick Hogan. It’s Hogan’s energetic performance that really sells the threat that the Doctor faces and you know he cant just con his way out of trouble like he normally would. There a grim moment when Jarra To is trying to con Peri into murdering. If Peri had been conned into murdering Peri then it would have been a truly shocking moment. Thankfully it would never have happened and so we can all move on.
All the main cast perform brilliantly and show why they are maturing nicely. Like a fine wine. Davison does a great job against the Jester and reminds me of the Doctor/Master relationship that we all know and love. Morris and Bryant are playing Peri and Erimem like sisters which is the best way for these two to go. The fact that Peri could have killed Erimem tested their sisterly relationship.
I liked the return of the idea about a Tardis graveyard. It was first mentioned in Omega (2003) and it was good that they continued with the continuity by mentioning this. The overall feeling that I have of this story was that it fully made up for Nekromanteia. The story was probably a bit mis-paced at times but that didn’t really bother my enjoyment as with the plot and the great characters along with some cracking music and sound effects I thought this was a very good story.
As with any Doctor Who story there is a bad guy and in this story it’s the Jester. The Jester is very well played by Garrick Hogan. It’s Hogan’s energetic performance that really sells the threat that the Doctor faces and you know he cant just con his way out of trouble like he normally would. There a grim moment when Jarra To is trying to con Peri into murdering. If Peri had been conned into murdering Peri then it would have been a truly shocking moment. Thankfully it would never have happened and so we can all move on.
All the main cast perform brilliantly and show why they are maturing nicely. Like a fine wine. Davison does a great job against the Jester and reminds me of the Doctor/Master relationship that we all know and love. Morris and Bryant are playing Peri and Erimem like sisters which is the best way for these two to go. The fact that Peri could have killed Erimem tested their sisterly relationship.
I liked the return of the idea about a Tardis graveyard. It was first mentioned in Omega (2003) and it was good that they continued with the continuity by mentioning this. The overall feeling that I have of this story was that it fully made up for Nekromanteia. The story was probably a bit mis-paced at times but that didn’t really bother my enjoyment as with the plot and the great characters along with some cracking music and sound effects I thought this was a very good story.
No comments:
Post a Comment