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It seems that this story has the same standards as a lot of the Fourth Doctor Adventures - Great concept, but awful execution. However, it does have its moments.

The Fourth Doctor and Leela are probably at their best in this story. The conversation in the first scene of the story is so quintessentially their relationship, just bouncing back and forth between them - unfortunately, they are just going in loops, and then it gets rather dull after a few minutes. I get what they were trying to do though - replicating the feel from Robots of Death - it was a good attempt, it just didn't work. It's great that they both get something to do, but I'm surprised that there's no reaction from the Doctor at Leela painting over Starry Night.

The villains are probably the most annoying people ever. It's clear that they needed to add some runtime so they added incessant laughing every five seconds. It was not a good idea. It was a unique concept for Marianna to be the original owner of the TARDIS, but I would've preferred it if they played into that more. The way they were defeated was lame and far too stupid. "Perhaps she had some morality to decided to trap herself again." Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Speaking of the TARDIS, it was a great idea to have the story TARDIS-bound and only talk about the point of (stillness) to reflect how almost nothing is known. As the Doctor is meant to be Leela's teacher, and he doesn't know much about the Point, so they're both out of their depth here.

This is probably in the better half of the series, but it's not one I'll rush to relisten to - shows off the quality of this season.


Ryebean

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It’s fine just wanted a little more I guess


Rock_Angel

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After three straight stories of the most boring, generic Doctor Who possible we finally get something new and unique! And it's the most incomprehensible and annoying story ever. I admire ambition and experimental storytelling but I literally didn't know what was going on in part 1. And even when it was explained immediately in part 2 it was just.... not too interesting?

But even worse than being hard to follow, every single side character in this is annoying. Like actively pissing me off. By the end I consciously chose to not focus on the audio any more cause I was irritated. Who decided to make them this bad and this important!?

There's some attempts by Jameson here to add to Leela's characterisation but when that's lost in all this nonsense it's hard to care really.


BSCTDrayden

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