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Released

Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Written by

Jamie Anderson

Runtime

73 minutes

Time Travel

Past

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

Mining

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Abertysswg, Earth, Wales

Synopsis

  1. Deep beneath the Welsh village of Abertysswg, men have worked the black seam for generations. Until the day of the disaster. The day that a blue box from the future materialised inside the mine.... and things would never be the same again.
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This is part of a series of reviews of Doctor Who in chronological timeline order.

Previous Story: Devil in the Mist


I like this one a lot more. More focus on Kamelion and his powers and this time an excellent tale of grief. I like how relatively small-scale this is. There's no planet to rescue, the Doctor and Co arrive after a mine explosion and try to bring aid to the survivors and Kamelion gets lost along the way. That's it, such a simple plot and yet so refreshingly unique.

Jon Culshaw is really showing off as Kamelion and I think it's fitting that they've got the vocal chameleon himself to play Kamelion. The rest of the cast are alright, Turlough gets to be a bit of a hero, Tegan is upset that nobody expects her to be a medical professional and the Doctor is just sort of there.

Overall, it's a really solid script and a much more interesting exploration of Kamelion than the last story. I'm curious to see where this character goes as he is a strange one.


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