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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | A love/hate for fans, but I like it. |
| Timelash is one of those Dr Who adventures that sharply split the fan base. People either love it or hate it with very little in between.
The basic idea is that in a dictatorship of the future, political opponents are thrown into the "Time Lash" a time machine that sends them into exile in medival earth. It comes to the Doctor's attention as the tardis inturupts one such rebel and diverts her to 19th century Scotland. there she, the Doctor and his companion along with a vacationing school teacher named Herbert set off to see who's meddling in time, only to discover this is a world the doctor, as Jon Pertwee visited years before. The Doctor needs little spuring on to oppose any dictator but to find a planet where he's known has fallen on hard times makes it double so. This is Colin Baker at his best, a bar whose height is fiercely debated. He and the writing staff have grown comfortable enough to know what they are about. Baker is confident to the ppint of arrogant smugness, but pulls it off. Sure the f/x are cheesey, this is Doctor Who and that is part of the charm. The two down sides: Paul Darrow as the pawn of the dictator is so over the top in his performance it's camp out of all scale. and Secondly the ending has a sort of double play, like they weren't sure how to end it, wrote two endings and then used them both. it is, clumsy, and also contradicts the known Dr Who sequence of events. But it still remains one of my favorites from a bad couple of seasons, partly for the doctor's style, partly from Herbert. With him, depicted as an almost 'happy puppy' you get a very good example of how just a little time spent with the Doctor can influence a person's whole life. |
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