Doctor Who:
Planet of The Dead
By Gareth Roberts and Russell T.
Davies
“It is returning. It is returning
through the dark. And then, Doctor? Oh, but then he will knock four times.”
Planet of the Dead is the second
of the four specials that ends the Tenth Doctor’s era. This one came out before Easter and is
considered the Easter special. There is
even a line in it that signifies this as the Doctor is eating a chocolate
Easter egg and offers Christina some. It
is also the 200th episode and there is something that celebrates
this as the bus is numbered number 200 in honor of that achievement. The story on the other hand is not one that
is very memorable at all.
Planet of the Dead is
basically a very simple story that involves The Doctor finding a way to get the
passengers of the bus back through the worm hole to London. The problem is they need the bus working to
get through the worm hole as the metal will protect them from the dangerous
hazards that are in the worm hole. In
fact going through without being protected will kill you as we learn when the
bus driver runs through it despite The Doctor’s warning and gets himself killed
and there is nothing left but his skeleton.
Oh there is one more thing. There
are killer Sting Ray creatures on the way to kill them also and what makes the
threat even more deadly is that those creatures took a thriving planet and devoured
it into the desert it is now.
