Doctor Who:
The Creature From The Pit
By David Fisher
“Mister McGregor. He's
chasing Peter Rabbit. He's got a sieve. He's going to pop it on top of Peter!”
The Doctor and Romana
respond to a distress call that takes them to the planet Chloris. There The Doctor finds an egg that is the
source of the distress signal. The
Doctor and Romana are captured by Lady Adrasta’s guards and are heading to see
her when all of a sudden they are attacked by a band of thieves who are obsessed
with metal. The Doctor meets Adrasta
and the proceed to head to the pit.
While there Romana escapes
the thieves with the aid of K – 9 when they meet The Doctor at the pit and
watched the execution. You see something
in the mines of Chloris is living in there and is hungry for humans. So the Doctor jumps in the pit to see what it
is and what he finds is a huge creature that has no ways of communicating.
I really do not like The
Creature from the Pit and have often wondered why it was even made. It is just a bad story that just is boring to
watch. It mainly takes place on a planet
that is planet infested and their guard dogs are giant green tumbleweeds called
Wolfweed. Yes giant Wolfweed capture you
and incapicitae you. Rolling and viscous
tumbleweed is truly not a memorable creature in Doctor Who.
The story is not all that
memorable but it does have a scene in it that is sort off a double entendre
where it looks like The Doctor is talking down into well I’m sure you can
figure it out what male part it is. The
Doctor strikes up quite the relationship with that creature after that I would
imagine.
This story is just plain
bad. Everything about it just isn’t good
from the thieves to Lady Adrasta to the creature itself. What is a four part story that just should
never be as we stumble through four parts of getting captured and escaping and
so on and so on just makes The Creature From The Pit one of the stories you
would rather forgot existed in the Tom Baker era. Grade D
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