“Battlefield” is a frustrating blend of good ideas and a few good performances mixed with some terrible staging, poor direction and some bad performances. The bad just about outweights the good, but the story is, however, miles ahead of most serials from the previous two seasons.
Archive for the ‘7th Doctor – Sylvester McCoy’ Category
I don’t want to be a McCoy basher… I really want to like his version of Doctor Who, and I do on several levels. Though I do find less to like in his three years on the show, his acting included. Back in the late eighties and early nineties when all I had were a [...]
“Dragonfire” is cheap and nasty. It’s even worse than “Delta and the Bannermen”. It looks low budget, and is filled with amateur actors and actresses. And in what is perhaps the worst sin it commits as a story, it introduces Ace to the series. The story is not entirely without merit, but it has enough [...]
Conventional fan opinion is quite correct when it comes to this story. “Time and the Rani” is bad, possibly one of the worst serials in Doctor Who’s entire run, at least until “Love and Monsters” came along. The plot is a lackluster runaround, the production looks cheap, and some of the most ill-thought out characterization [...]
“Ghost Light” is only the second story in Sylvester McCoy’s time on Doctor Who that actually offers a good, strong, well-acted narrative. The story famously requires multiple viewings to really work out what’s going on, but in the end it generally makes sense despite the lunacy of the characters and situations. Author Marc Platt has [...]
