Doctor Who:
The Face of Evil
By Chris Boucher
“Destroy and be free!
Destroy and be free!”
The Doctor lands on a
planet that has two tribes that are at war with each other. There he meets Leela who says he is the Evil
One. The Doctor has a strange feeling he
has been here before as he is recognized by the Sevateem as being Xoanon. The Sevateem call The Doctor the evil one
also as it appears The Doctor is a dead ringer for their god.
The Doctor and Leela head
to the clearing beyond and they happen to see The Doctor’s likeness carved into
the mountain. It appears The Doctor has
been here before and he apparently was with the Tesh inside that mountain where
The Doctor must have left his personality in the computer Xoanon and it has
caused it to be confused and homicidal and its up to The Doctor to set Xoanon
right.
The Face of Evil is an
interesting story even if it is terribly boring. It is a story that I do not care for all that
much. I myself find it boring, dull and
very hard to watch in one sitting. It
is interesting that the story is about what happened when The Doctor was there
before but before we get to the part with Xoanon and The Doctor confronting it
and trying to repair it the story is just pretty blah.
I do like the introduction
of Leela. I always liked her as a
companion and a character and thought it was pretty good to have someone from a
primitive time trying to make sense of all that The Doctor does and learning
all the modern technology stuff. Plus
she was a warrior and often gave as much as she was given. Plus Leela questioned The Doctor’s motives
sometimes making him think about what he is going to do.
What is pretty disappointing
is that The Face of Evil was written by Chris Boucher who wrote the next story
the brilliantly done The Robots of Death and a majority of the better Blake’s 7
stories. I guess every writer can call
a mulligan and thankfully his next story redeems him as unfortunately The Face of
Evil is a boring story with not much quality in it even though the idea was
pretty good.
Grade C -
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