My dear young lady, in order to be blinded, you must first have been given the gift of sight.

With the short but sweet Summoned by Shadows ending up a surprising runaway success on its initial home video release, a sequel was quickly fast-tracked and released the following year. More Than a Messiah is a lot more interesting and daring than the rather safe first outing in the Stranger series, tackling themes of environmentalism and playing much more like one of Colins better adventures.

MAJUS XVII - a paradise world of plenty where interplanetary tourists can relax and enjoy life. But not for the retired Bernard Denton and his wife Charlotte, pleasure comes at too high a price. The Stranger and Miss Brown soon find themselves embroiled in a battle against nature itself as a mysterious girl displays an infatuated obsession with The Stranger.

Although this one begins a long and baffling trend of poorly justified nakedness in BBV films with Colin and Sophie Aldred appearing together in one very infamous scene, it's a very engaging and yet highly interesting little 43-minute adventure a mix of NuWho pacing and Classic Who storytelling. The direction is pretty standard at this point and the visual effects of the multicoloured sky blend together quite nicely with the choice of angles but the ending is a bit all over the place due to the skirting of copyright meaning the characters do just sort of escape with no explanation.

Colin Baker is much more Doctor-like in this one and still allows for some great melancholy moments thanks to Nigel Fairs' writing, Nicola Bryant is again great as Miss Brown, but it's Peter Miles' Bernard and Sophie Aldred's performances that really stand out in this adventure. Alistair Lock's soundtrack is really great and thankfully is included on the DVD isolated for those who enjoy a varied and lovely synth soundscape.

Overall, More Than a Messiah is a much more interesting story that really starts to show the strengths of what this series could be in terms of Unofficial Doctor Who.

Takes more than a few party tricks to be a god. I should know.

I'd seen that infamous shot from More than a Messiah, and because of it I wasn't really expecting much from the script but that was genuinely just so heartfelt and well acted, with some interesting sci-fi concepts in there too.

Baker and Bryant are great (not technically but lets be honest they're actually just) returning to their roles, and Aldred is great as the planet's consciousness, I love her interactions with Baker here. I also think the side-cast is pretty solid too, you've got a believable 'villain' who eventually ends up seeming like just a mentally unwell older man.

There's a lot of heart to the story, and it's one of those wilderness exploits that I've surprised myself by how much I've enjoyed it

This one was excellent, I know early BBV gets a bad rep from Modern BBV (which is fair), that said this one really worked for me. While at times it could be a bit confusing, unlike its first Entry, I think this was much more cohesive. Aldred was excellent in her Role, and I really liked to see her with Colin together. Colin is yet again a Standout, a lot of his Lines here really feel like (peak) Sixth Doctor to me! Oh and Nicola, how can I not mention her? Her as Mrs. Brown is quite lovely, I feel bad for her in this one.

Oh, did I mention the Guy who played Nyder is here? No? Well he was great too. Honestly, every (outside that wounded Student Guy?) were excellent. While the script wasn't perfect, it was quite a creative Idea and I think they pulled it off nicely! The green sky is quite silly, but I can't lie, it has some charm to it.

Overall, if you want to give any of the Stranger a go, this is easily the best one (granted I haven't seen all of them, but I doubt they would beat this). Now i can see why some People wouldn't like this as much, but also have you considered shirtless Colin?! No? Then think again!!

Just so baffled. So many questions. What was going on here? Why did this happen? Who woke up and said “I can finally make my Six/Ace slash pairing canon?”

It was competently shot at least. Back when Bill knew the people who had the sauce. Most modern BBV makes this look like the Mona Lisa.

Good concept, abysmal execution. Unfortunately I did not connect with this story whatsoever.