Doctor Who:
The Sontaran
Stratagem/The Poison Sky
By Helen
Raynor
“Sontar Ha!”
Series Fours
first two part story gives us the return of the Sontaran’s to the rebooted
show. Despite being shrunken down in
size. It also brings back UNIT and of
course former companion Martha Jones. This
time the Sontarans are tad bit smarter despite being heightly challenged. I found this story to be very entertaining
but I did have some reservations coming into this story as this was written by
the same person who wrote last series Dalek Story. You know the one it took place in New York
City. Theplot of the story sees the
Sontaran’s hatching a plot to poison the Earth’s atmosphere with the ATMOS
device to make it a clone factory.
What the
ATMOS device does is take the exhaust from your cars and then change it into a
gas that will change Earth’s atmosphere that will be suitable for the Sontarans
to use as a clone factory to help inn their war with the Rutan. They were never
this ambitious before in the shows history and it is good to see the Doctor Who
production crew reinvent then and made them a tad bit more intelligent and
schemers.
The Sontaran
Stratagem/The Poison Sky saw the return of UNIT in a proper aspect. They were seen in the New Series in a minor
role back in the Christmas Invasion but this was the first story to seem them proper
and in action taking charge to fight off threats to the Earth. Martha returns also in fact she calls The
Doctor back to Earth to help with the problem. Since we last saw her she is now
a proper Doctor and is also engage. But
the biggest thing is that she is now a member of UNIT. It was good to see Martha get a proper story
that gave her something to do instead of being the girl pining for The Doctor’s
attention. It was also good to see
Martha and Donna interact. Good to see a
past companion and current companion not having a cat fight like the last
time. I guess The Doctor learned his
lesson from School Reunion.
There was a
lot that I did like about The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky. I really do like the interaction between
Donna and her grandfather Wilf. So far
those scenes that they have had together so far in Series Four has been really
touching and one of the best scenes they have done in New Who. Maybe because it reminds me of good memories
I had with my grandfather and father that make me really like the relationship
between those two. What was funny was
the reaction Wilf had when he saw The Doctor again and remembers him from
Christmas time during The Voyage of the Damned. Even when Donna’s mom recognized
him also was pretty funny.
I did like
the irritating character Rattigan. His
name was fitting as he was a rat. You
could tell he was being used and he didn’t realize it. The way his students got up and left him was
typical of someone so naïve that he had a rude awakening when the Sontaran’s
told him they were only using him for their own means. Some of the best characters in Doctor Who are
supposedly villains that end up seeing the light and then rectifying the
situation as Rattigan does.
What was a
cool scene was when Martha was cloned.
Seeing the cloned Martha coming out of that pool of green goo was truly
a chilling and freaky moment. I don’t
know how Freema Agyeman was able to do it holding her breath and all in that pool
of slime. The Sontaran Stratagem/The
Poison Sky was a pretty decent story and Helen Raynor did redeem herself from
her dreadful Dalek story. It was a
pretty entertaining story that was fun to watch.
Grade B +
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