Doctor Who:
The Long Game
By Russell T. Davies
“And no one's going to
stop you because you've bred a human race that doesn't bother to ask questions.
Stupid little slaves, believing every lie. They'll just trot right into the
slaughter house if they're told it's made of gold.”
The Doctor, Rose and Adam
arrive on Satellite 5 in the year 200,000 which is during The Fourth Great and
Bountiful Earth Empire. They do a little
bit of exploring and find out that Satellite 5 main job is to send information
across the Earth Empire. Lots of stuff
goes on in Satellite 5 like how they do the information sending which is pretty
strange in itself as the computer is interfaced from a chip they implant in
you. The highest upgrade has the info
downloaded into your brain directly.
The Doctor is not at all
convinced that things are what they seem as it is extremely warm on Satellite
5. Plus what happens to those who are
promoted to floor 500. It seems once you get up there you never return or seen
from again. The Doctor and Rose curiosity
has been aroused and are determined to find out what the big mystery of floor
500 is.
The Long Game is not a
particular favorite of mine. In fact I
do not like it all that much and in my opinion is the worst story of the
Eccleston era. With that said is there
anything redeeming about this story at all besides the performances of the two
main stars. Well yes there is. Simon Pegg is in it as the Editor and I have
been a fan of his since his show Space was on the air. His performance turned an otherwise drab
story and gave it some much needed shot in the arm. The Editor was somewhat creepy and eccentric
and you can tell he was evil from the performance of Simon Pegg. Unfortunately they gave him a shoddy story to
be in and he would have been better used for something else. Well he was considered to play Roses dad but
was unavailable to do it so I guess we should be lucky he did make an
appearance in the show after all.
Another good thing was
that they ditched Adam in this story. I
never liked him much and adding his character as the only idiot to be kicked
out of the TARDIS for breaking the rules was such a dumb character that I did
not have a care for. Glad he got stuck
on Earth with that thing in his forehead.
I guess the character did have a purpose in the story but in my opinion
the story did not really need his part in it at all.
The Jagrafess wasn’t a bad
CGI alien and looked sort cool with all the teeth and the way it was sticking
to the ceiling like a slug but it just seemed to be silly considering it was
pink in color. I guess it was ok and it
was funny when it blew up all over the place.
The Long Game just is not one of my favorite stories as it is just an
average story that doesn’t really enhance anything and is just simple in
nature. For me I find this story to be
boring and uneventful and if Simon Pegg wasn’t in it I would probably not watch
this story much if at all.
Grade D
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