Doctor Who:
The Unicorn and The Wasp
By Gareth Roberts
“The thrill is in the chase,
never in the capture.”
Since the relaunch the new
producers have made it a point to have The Doctor meet some historical
figures. Series 4 selection is kind of
interesting. The Doctor and Donna travel
back to the 1920’s and meet up with Agatha Christie. What makes this interesting is that The
Unicorn and The Wasp takes place the day before she disappears for 10 days. It
is pretty clever of Gareth Roberts to have these events intertwine with this
episode and having a science fiction explanation for her disappearance is
pretty cool.
The main basis for The Unicorn
and The Wasp is a murder mystery. That
is pretty clever and one of the main things that drew me in when I saw the next
time trailer. Plus there were plenty of
old time murder mystery homages in this story if you keep your eyes open but
the obvious one was Professor Plum getting killed in the library with a lead
pipe. That was classic and very much like
the game Clue. Plus it had a giant wasp
doing the killing to add that bit of science fiction to it.
