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Review of Time and the Rani by ankarstian

17 December 2024

Omnipotence! The mind behind this bag of tricks operates on a grand scale!

Time and the Rani is one of the weaker links of the Seventh Doctor's reign on TV and almost certainly the oddest story within it. The entire plot does not exactly disregard logic but more refuses to believe in its existence and flogs itself to make sure that it can never and will never exist. This is also one of the best examples of a story in which someone should have asked "how do we make people care about the interpolitics of the natives?". By Part Four, I had basically tuned out completely and refused to acknowledge its existence as a piece of media (and I watched each part separately). That being said, I did like the set designs (when we weren't trudging through a quarry painted pink) and the recurring cast give some decent performances.