The final story of the third series is was what I was hoping would be a fitting end to a superb series. It’s felt like a long series and that is due to the large amount of things that have been going on our the previous five releases. We’ve had civil war, elections, return of familiar voices and the best is yet to come. It falls to Alan Barnes to find a fitting end to the fourteenth chapter. I liked the opening scene because it starts with Romana returning to her ancestral home of Heartshaven. I don’t know whether this was common knowledge but this was the first time that I had heard this name so it was nice to have a bit of information about the former President. The Matthias era is clearly one that isnt going to be as strongly lead as at one point he expects people to collect a certain amount of pig-rats. It’s the sort of bad management that is common place in real life.
The Free Time virus which with all the political fighting over the last few stories I had forgotten all about sees the introduction of Arkadian (Hugo Myatt), who will sell a cure to the virus and the price is one that is massive and that is the temporal weaponry of Gallifrey which will no doubtibly go to some dubious third party. Matthias is on a hiding to nothing because if he does nothing then the Timelord race will be infected and zombified. However if he agrees then Timelords will survive but will never be able to regenerate.
There’s an interesting message that appears when Braxiatel tells everyone that there is a threat coming to Gallifrey and only the Imperiatrix would have helped Gallifrey get through. It’s a ‘You didn’t know when you were better off!’. Braxiatel has managed to steal the Biodata archive creating a sort of Ark to preserve the Timelords. It’s clever thing to do because the Free Time virus is consuming more Timelords. The ending is a tad bit unexpected because I was sort of expecting an ending that would satisfactorly tie up the loose ends but in fact it ends with this line
“Right. What we’re going to do is…..”
The performances are as usual perfect. The dialogue is good enough that everyone gets their moment to shine and it due to this that the story doesn’t feel like 79 minutes but more like 30 minutes. Hugo Myatt does a good job of joining the party late and gives a great performance as a snidy Arkadian. Stephen Perring is still very good as the bumbling President.
This was the last Gallifrey story for nearly five years and with the knowledge that there are more stories this ending has a far more satisfactory ending than I would have had twelve months ago. I think that had this been the last story then I would have been disappointed because it’s clear that they leaving it open for something different and this ending whilst good with series four on my iPod would have been lacking a satisfactory ending without it.
The Free Time virus which with all the political fighting over the last few stories I had forgotten all about sees the introduction of Arkadian (Hugo Myatt), who will sell a cure to the virus and the price is one that is massive and that is the temporal weaponry of Gallifrey which will no doubtibly go to some dubious third party. Matthias is on a hiding to nothing because if he does nothing then the Timelord race will be infected and zombified. However if he agrees then Timelords will survive but will never be able to regenerate.
There’s an interesting message that appears when Braxiatel tells everyone that there is a threat coming to Gallifrey and only the Imperiatrix would have helped Gallifrey get through. It’s a ‘You didn’t know when you were better off!’. Braxiatel has managed to steal the Biodata archive creating a sort of Ark to preserve the Timelords. It’s clever thing to do because the Free Time virus is consuming more Timelords. The ending is a tad bit unexpected because I was sort of expecting an ending that would satisfactorly tie up the loose ends but in fact it ends with this line
“Right. What we’re going to do is…..”
The performances are as usual perfect. The dialogue is good enough that everyone gets their moment to shine and it due to this that the story doesn’t feel like 79 minutes but more like 30 minutes. Hugo Myatt does a good job of joining the party late and gives a great performance as a snidy Arkadian. Stephen Perring is still very good as the bumbling President.
This was the last Gallifrey story for nearly five years and with the knowledge that there are more stories this ending has a far more satisfactory ending than I would have had twelve months ago. I think that had this been the last story then I would have been disappointed because it’s clear that they leaving it open for something different and this ending whilst good with series four on my iPod would have been lacking a satisfactory ending without it.
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