Review of Robot by dema1020
1 February 2025
This review contains spoilers!
It's fun, it's silly, and it's simple. Robot is the big introduction of the Fourth Doctor and I enjoyed it overall. Sure, some scenes and moments feel like they kind of waste time more than progress the plot. But it's interesting. As our first step towards a new era, it still feels like a transition out of the UNIT era. This could have been a Third Doctor story very easily, but that's not a bad thing. It blunts the blow of the regeneration a little bit and allows for a transition into the new doctor rather seamlessly.
Tom Baker shows how fun he can be pretty quickly - that Robot clip almost immediately proved he was going to be a unique and unforgettable force in this show's history. The UNIT characters and Harry Sullivan were all pretty charming, too. I got a lot of closure out of the Robot episodes because of this, even with all the cheesy effects around K1. The robot was fun more than anything. I really like his rampage at the end even if it didn't look great. Overall it's a very cozy experience I quite enjoyed, with all its flaws.

dema1020
View profile