The latest instalment sees the story move away from Gallifrey. Written by Stephen Cole, this followed the very complex opening story and thankfully this story isn’t anywhere near as filling on the brain but it’s still a nice story. Leela is still getting use to the truth about what happened to her husband is neglecting her duty of protecting Romana.
The story does quite a long time to get going because it sets up the idea that Leela wants to leave Gallifrey and Romana thinks that a holiday would do her some good. The story is pondering along and whilst I am wondering when the story is going to get going I am enjoying the gentle pace that the story is undertaking. Then the story gets going properly completely out of the blue. There is an arrival of a ship with a Timelord who’s had his tongue removed and seems to be under some tremendous mental agony. There is no way of finding out who he is and there is a discussion of a ‘forced regeneration’ but its never done. Then the story moves along a bit more because whilst enjoying some water-tank relaxation thing there appears to be a mind swap where Leela is saying words in a manner which isn’t like her and Romana seems to have lost some of her intelligence. This is an amusing idea and it doesn’t drag on too long before it’s resolved.
It’s a regular row that these two characters have and that is ‘Who’s methods are best?’ Is it Romana with her scientific and level headed approach or is it Leela with her do or die attitude. This is never resolved in this story but it’s clear with the two experiencing each other’s way of relaxing that both methods have merits. Typical. This is another good character piece with Romana and Leela finding out about the others beliefs. I thought that Louise Jameson was more convincing as someone who isnt herself. Lalla Ward, who is normally very good, somehow doesn’t quite seem to get a good hold of Romana with a mix of Leela. I also thought the supporting characters were very good because we get different Timelords though we don’t go without Narvin or Braxiatel but they aren’t in it as much as they usually are. I thought that Melyin was the most interesting because she is someone who is based on Davidia but has seven more years before she can leave. It seems like she’s happy but she is planning her way out and purposely gets herself into trouble so that she will have to leave. It’s a clever transformation of the character in such a relatively short amount of time.
This is a nice story that is a shift in the sort of story that we are use to from this series. It superbly written and superbly acted with the two leading stars both giving solid performances. I really enjoyed it and hope think that the quality of stories have greatly improved in series two compared to the previous series.
The story does quite a long time to get going because it sets up the idea that Leela wants to leave Gallifrey and Romana thinks that a holiday would do her some good. The story is pondering along and whilst I am wondering when the story is going to get going I am enjoying the gentle pace that the story is undertaking. Then the story gets going properly completely out of the blue. There is an arrival of a ship with a Timelord who’s had his tongue removed and seems to be under some tremendous mental agony. There is no way of finding out who he is and there is a discussion of a ‘forced regeneration’ but its never done. Then the story moves along a bit more because whilst enjoying some water-tank relaxation thing there appears to be a mind swap where Leela is saying words in a manner which isn’t like her and Romana seems to have lost some of her intelligence. This is an amusing idea and it doesn’t drag on too long before it’s resolved.
It’s a regular row that these two characters have and that is ‘Who’s methods are best?’ Is it Romana with her scientific and level headed approach or is it Leela with her do or die attitude. This is never resolved in this story but it’s clear with the two experiencing each other’s way of relaxing that both methods have merits. Typical. This is another good character piece with Romana and Leela finding out about the others beliefs. I thought that Louise Jameson was more convincing as someone who isnt herself. Lalla Ward, who is normally very good, somehow doesn’t quite seem to get a good hold of Romana with a mix of Leela. I also thought the supporting characters were very good because we get different Timelords though we don’t go without Narvin or Braxiatel but they aren’t in it as much as they usually are. I thought that Melyin was the most interesting because she is someone who is based on Davidia but has seven more years before she can leave. It seems like she’s happy but she is planning her way out and purposely gets herself into trouble so that she will have to leave. It’s a clever transformation of the character in such a relatively short amount of time.
This is a nice story that is a shift in the sort of story that we are use to from this series. It superbly written and superbly acted with the two leading stars both giving solid performances. I really enjoyed it and hope think that the quality of stories have greatly improved in series two compared to the previous series.
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