Doctor Who:
Delta and The Bannermen
By Malcolm Kohll
“Life? What do you know
about life, Gavrok? You deal in death. Lies, treachery and murder are your
currency. You promise life, but in the end it will be life which defeats you.”
The Doctor and Mel have
won a trip to Disneyland 1959 for being the One billionth person to arrive at
the spaceport. Mel decides to go in the
spaceship that is disguised as a bus from the 1950’s. On board the ship is the Chimeron Queen Delta
and she is running away from the Bannermen as they want to kill her as she is the last of
her kind. The Doctor follows along in
the TARDIS and it is a good thing too as the spaceship hits a satellite and is
forced to land in Wales with a little help from the TARDIS. They end up landing near a holiday camp where
they decide to make camp until the ship is repaired.
The fun and games comes to
an end sooner than expected as the Bannermen have arrived on Earth to get Delta
and her newborn child. The Doctor tells
Murray he has to get the campers off the planet before the Bannermen arrive but
to no avail as they are destroyed at lift off.
The Doctor now must come up with a plan to save the remaining campers
and Delta and her child from the Bannermen.
Delta and The Bannerman is
just not a good Doctor Who story at all.
In fact I find it to be one of the worst and definitely giving Time and
the Rani a run for worst story in the McCoy era. The Bannermen themselves are a pretty
pathetic group of alien mercenaries that like to just rush in and attack
without reason and constantly keep running into traps. The Bannermen are not very efficient if you
ask me for a group that is feared throughout the universe. Plus they got beating up by honey bees and
just stood there to get stung instead of running away right away.
Then there is the whole
Billy thing. He starts taking alien
medicine to make himself a Chimeran. Not
realizing that it could kill him he just drinks the stuff up anyway so he can
be with Delta. Kind of stupid if you
ask me but this story is a love story for the most part but that just seems
really stupid to me. I mean who would do
that without thinking this could be harmful.
Then there is the
Americans Weismuller and Hawk who happen to be working for the US government. We all know they are Americans because Weismuller
is wearing a New York Yankees hat and coat and we all know Americans all wear
that. Those two are not really all that
important to the overall story and are inserted as comic relief and they are
not that funny really and do not offer much comic relief.
Mel is still screaming and
this time pretty pathetically as she screams her lungs out when Delta’s
daughter is hatching from the egg. Of
all the things Mel has seen screaming at the egg cracking and then the baby
coming out seems to be pretty lame and just makes her seem even more
stupid. Like I said before why they made
her afraid of everything to the point of screaming was very stupid from those
in charge.
Delta and The Bannermen is
not a really good story and thankfully the story that comes next is a lot
better and has the feel of a Doctor Who story while this one just doesn’t cut
it.
Grade D –
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