Thin Time

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

Previous Story: The Dancing Plague

This is a story I'll have to revisit on Halloween, it's got that spooky haunted mansion feel. The cast are good fun and the Victorian setting is just perfect for a silly horror story like this. The stakes are oddly high for such a small-scale story like this and I feel like the villain could have done with more development rather than being sort of shoved in at the end.

I really love the characterisation they've done for the Fifth Doctor, it feels so New-Who-esque with how they explore the Doctor's feelings about his companions, Peter Davison acts this side of his Doctor fantastically, in a way that you'd never have seen in the 80s.

There's no real way to talk about this story though without talking about the Eleventh Doctor cameo at the end. It serves the purpose of the story really well, as both Doctor's are at similar points in their lives. It's similar to Twice Upon a Time, with both Doctors learning from themselves.

While Eleven's character is spot on, Dudman's impression is strangely shakey. I've heard him in his own range and he does it phenomenally but he sounds really off in this story. Perhaps it's because this was early on, but it feels like he didn't have the accent or the pitch down quite just yet. Still it shows incredible promise and is instantly recognisable so I suppose it's succeeded there.

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