Doctor Who:
The Mutants
By Bob Baker and Dave
Martin
“Oh, don't be a fool. If
we were saboteurs, that'd be a bomb, and thanks to you we'd all be blown to
smithereens by now.”
The Time Lords have sent
The Doctor a special package. They want
The Doctor to deliver this package to the person it is intended for. The problem is the package will only open up
for the person it is intended for and The Doctor has no idea who it is. So The Doctor and Jo have been sent to a skybase
orbiting the planet Solos. Solos is a planet where the air is poisonous to
humans but not to the inhabitants of the planet.
On the skybase is the
crazy Marshal who wants to kill all the mutants and not let the people of Solos
to have their freedom. The Doctor finds
out the package is for Ky who is a rebel and wants freedom for Solos. He also is friendly with the Mutants and
wants to help all his people. The Doctor
and Jo soon get involved with this squabble and are caught in a pickle as the
try and escape the poisonous air on Solos and the madman Marshall.
The Mutants is a really terrible
story. It is 6 episodes of total
rubbish. The story is just so long and
so boring it feels like it’s taking forever to get through watching it. The story is just not interesting and it’s
just a big jumble mess of getting caught and bad characters walking around
attacking things. Plus there was also
the Mutants themselves that look pretty comical itself and don't get me started on the ending when Ky transforms into a higher being and just zaps everything as he looks like Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. It was pretty ridiculous.
The Marshal is one of the
worst characters in Doctor Who. Loud
mouth and shooting his gun all over the place he is just an annoying hateful
person who is hardly interesting at all. In fact you can say that about most of the
characters in this story as they all lacked in the interest department and you
just didn’t have a connection with them or even cared if they lived or died.
The only saving grace is
that Katy Manning and Jon Pertwee were both pretty good as Jo Grant and The
Doctor. While watching The Mutants I was
feeling sorry for these two actors as they had to suffer through this horrible
script and try to give some credibility to The Mutants. On a positive note they both got paid for it
so maybe I shouldn’t feel sorry for them that much.
I can go on and on ripping
into this story but why bother as this story doesn’t need any more attention
than it really needs. It is a horrible
story with bad characters and is quite positively the worst story of the Jon
Pertwee era if not all time.
Grade F
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