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Full Circle

posted 8 years ago by raventhom
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Started out right funny, Romana and the Doctor acting almost like a married couple.
"I don't want to leave you Doctor", (ok not being verbatim) You have to, you are being called back, I want Leela, (Ok, my wishes).
Anyway the store progressed quite well, A new type of characters, where children come in and run havoc w/ the TARDIS,
Men on a spaceship, supposedly being worked on to bring everyone back to a home planet, and those on the planet including a young lad Adric, whom is reminiscent of Zoe from the 2nd Doctors life. Super mathematical genius.
Romana gets attacked by spiders, losing her memory, K-9 gets his head kicked clean off, more scary bits for the kiddies
I was unhappy at the way the Marshmen were treated, and somehow everything came full circle allowing the Doctor to solve everyone's ptoblems

[–] timmdoolen 8 years ago

If you love K-9, then season 18 is an issue, because for some reason the producers decided to abuse and humiliate our favorite robot dog in almost every episode. I'm not the biggest K-9 fan (loved him as a kid), but I also thought he didn't deserve this sort of treatment if the producers wanted him to exit the show.

I actually like Full Circle quite a bit - the story works for me on a bunch of levels, and the intrigue was satisfying. The location filming was fairly well done and the first time I saw it I was actually surprised by some of the twists.

[–] raventhom 8 years ago

No, don't love K-9 but like some of the things he adds, this, however, shows his weaknesses and I know he must be weeded out, maybe a bit more easily let down

[–] timmdoolen 8 years ago

The main reason they got rid of him was K-9 was too strong - lasers, computerized, mobile, smart. He was an easy go-to for any tough situation. They also got rid of the sonic screwdriver for almost the same reason.

[–] mindbait 8 years ago

But in a way they went too far, got rid of K9, got rid of the sonic screwdriver then made the doctor somewhat ineffectual too.
the new show has gone the other way making the doctor occasionally seemingly superhuman AND with his psychic paper and sonic screwdriver to see him right

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[–] AardvarkRatnik 8 years ago

"They're only spiders!!!"

It's a good story, the cliffhanger in Episode 1 is one of Who's greatest ever and the links between the Marshmen and the Starliner crew is very clever.

I just wish they'd kept Varsh on instead of Adric!

[–] mindbait 8 years ago

One of the stories that stayed in my memory from watching in the 80s (probably helped a little by the target novelisation) In fact I think I only ended up getting it on dvd some 20-25 years later

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