Doctor Who:
Time and The Rani
By Pip and Jane Baker
“I don't believe it. A
time manipulator. This monstrosity will give you the ability to change the order of
creation.”
The TARDIS is under attack
and bombarded with lasers being shot from The Rani. The TARDIS crash lands on
Lakertya and as a result from that crash The Doctor is injured enough to cause
him to regenerate. The Rani enters the
crashed TARDIS and takes the newly regenerated Doctor back to her base to help
her with a project of hers. The Doctor
regains conscious and is alert that he is in the company of The Rani when one of her Tetraps shoots him
with a net gun and stuns him. The Rani
gives The Doctor a shot that will induce amnesia and disguises as Mel to get
The Doctor to help her with her project.
Meanwhile Mel is wandering
Lakertya and causes the death of one of the Lakerishans. Ikona doesn’t rust Mel and blames her for his
friends death. After much confusion and
the pair saving one another Mel and Ikona decide to try and save The Doctor
from The Rani’s base of operations.
Once there Mel does not recognize The Doctor and he thinks Mel is The
Rani. Once the two realize that they
are who they say they are prepared to stop The Rani from making a Time
Manipulator and to mold creation as she sees fit.
I don’t know who has a
worst debut story Colin Baker with The Twin Dilemma or Sylvester McCoy’s Time
and The Rani. They are both pretty bad
stories with lots of stuff that makes you shake your head and cover your eyes
in disgust. It is pretty close but Time
and The Rani is pretty bad and the story is hard to watch because Mel is
constantly screaming her lungs out. I
mean all four episodes she screams and screams and doesn’t stop. God she is awful and The Doctor should have
left her on Lakertya.
I really hate this
regeneration. Seeing Sylvester McCoy in
a blonde wig and having the blurred and swirly face just doesn’t work. It would have been better if The Rani had
found The Doctor already regenerated without the shoddy effects. That would have been better and the fans would
have accepted that. It just leaves a bad
taste in my mouth considering how Colin Baker was dumped and then having this sham
of a regeneration.
The story is pretty weak
with The Rani kidnapping genius’s from the past to be part of a giant brain to
help make a calculation for a rocket to hit an asteroid with strange matter.
Boring. If she is so smart she could
have figured it out herself but thinking of using The Doctor to help she must
have been having a bad day if she thought that would work.
Unfortunately the
Sylvester McCoy era does not start on a high note as we are treated to a lack
luster story that is filled mainly with escape and get caught and an insant
amount of Mel screaming to cause blood to pour out of your ears. Whoever thought of making The Doctor miss say
quotes should be punished for making that decision as that was way over used in
the story and became extremely annoying and not funny at all during McCoy’s
first season. A bad debut story and a
poor start to a bad first season for Sylvester McCoy. Luckily for us his second and third season
where head and shoulders above this one.
Grade D –
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