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Overview

Released

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Written by

John Dorney

Runtime

65 minutes

Time Travel

Unclear

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

Temporal grace

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Altrazar

Synopsis

Altrazar. The temporal Atlantis, a place lost to time. Believed by many to be a myth, it has long been the perfect location for the rich and powerful to hide away their most dangerous secrets.

Until now.

Because the somewhat crooked, not exactly honest, wheeler-dealer cockney Time Lord known as Drax has found a map that leads to its location. And, at the behest of a manipulative businessman, he's going to use it.

When the TARDIS is dragged out of the space-time vortex, its crew aren't best pleased to see the Doctor's old school friend, even less when he pressgangs them into joining a raid on the most secure safe-house in history. However, with Romana and K9 held hostage, the Doctor has little choice but to agree. With Drax in tow, he heads for the planet.

Which is where the trouble starts...

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I really enjoyed this one overall.  It's delightfully fun and The Trouble with Drax understands it is a bemusing heist story, which it plays into well.  Ray Brooks as Drax kind of steals the show here.  I certainly saw a few of the twists coming as we went along, as, after a while I could kind of see what writer John Dorney was going for, but I still thoroughly enjoyed every step of that journey.  I would absolutely recommend this one and it feels right on the level of a top-tier, "Doctor and Romana II with Douglas Adams as script supervisor era" Doctor Who story.  You can't do much better than that!


This review contains spoilers!

This is part of a series of reviews of Doctor Who in chronological timeline order.

Previous Story: Gallery of Ghouls

And this one immediately wins the record of timiest-wimiest story off The Paradox Planet two parter.

This story took me for a wild ride, the first twist, of there being two Draxes was surprising and I thought, how cool, a multi-Drax story. Little did I know how correct I was.

Every single time they revealed that there was another Drax, I was shocked. After the first few, I should have just expected it but somehow I didn't believe that they would have the balls to make every character Drax. I believed wrong.

I'm not sure I'll ever fully understand what happened in this story, but one thing I know for certain is that it was really really good. It makes me want a Drax miniseries, with him getting up to all sorts of temporal cons and schemes.

Next Story: The Pursuit of History


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