Showing posts with label Voyage of the Damned. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Voyage of the Damned. Show all posts
Saturday, December 10, 2016
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Doctor Who 50th Anniversary: Voyage of the Damned
Doctor Who:
Voyage of the
Damned
By Russell T.
Davies
“I'm the
Doctor. I'm a Time Lord. I'm from the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of
Kasterborous. I'm nine hundred and three years old and I'm the man who's going
to save your lives and all six billion people on the planet below. You got a
problem with that?”
Its once
again time for another Christmas special and once again the Tenth Doctor is
without a companion. This time around
he is paired with Kylie Minogue who is more famous for being a pop singer. During the Summer and Fall all the
speculation was about whether or not the Titanic that crashed into the TARDIS
was the genuine article or a spaceship.
Well it turned out that it was of course a spaceship. The Titanic it turned out was a holiday
cruise spaceship that had tons of passengers traveling to Earth to experience the
Christmas holidays. Unfortunately The
Doctor shows up so you know what is about to happen next.
When this story
first came out I was a tad hesitant about it and thought that the premise
wouldn’t work and that it would not be a good story. But my worries were for not as it was an
entertaining story for the most part.
What we got was a story that had some elements of The Robots of Death
and The Poseidon Adventure. In other
words we had an homage to disaster movies.
RTD gives us a pretty good disaster movie with the spaceship getting
pelted by asteroids when the suicidal captain of the ship leaves the shields
down so he can kill himself. What ensues
next is a fight for survival as the robot Hosts have also been programmed to
kill anyone left alive on the ship.
Plenty of action in Voyage of the Damned to keep you interested.
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