Doctor Who fans after taking a break of off reviewing episodes from Doctor Who Season i'm now back at it again. Before you all say anything I have watched The Ark In Space last week but something came up which prevented me from reviewing it and so then join me as I review what is quite possibly the absolutely cheapest looking Tom Baker episode from this particular season with the episode in question being called simply just "The Sontaran Experiment" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is The Doctor , Harry and Sarah Jane arrive on earth to fix the transmat beam but while they are on earth they discover a lone Sontaran and so then it's up to the trio and group of astronauts to discover what this particular Sontaran is up to and put a stop to his plans once and for freaking all. Now then in terms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very was in all honesty not that bad of a plot but at the same time it quite clearly wasn't the best Tom Baker Doctor Who plot tho in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode is of course the most certainly freaking great great Tom Baker as The Doctor and the late and the most freaking certainly great Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith. Also starring in this episode is the late the most certainly great Ian Marter as Harry Sullivan , the late and the most certainly great Kevin Lindsay as Styre and as The Marshal , Donald Douglas as Vural , Glyn Jones as Krans , Peter Walshe as Erak , Peter Rutherford as Roth , Terry Walsh as Zake and Brian Ellis as A Prisoner.
Now then in terms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really freaking good. Which I was in all honesty really freaking surprised by as the script for this episode wasn't that good and the location doesn't really spark the imagination and so then as such nobody would have blamed any of actors and actresses that are appearing in / starring in this very episode if they instead chose just phone in there freaking performances in my freaking personal opinions anyways / at least.
So now then this episode the cheapest looking Tom Baker Doctor of Series 12 since it's entirely shot on location and there's very little set dressing added to the actual location itself which means that you can't tell one location apart from the next location and on top if all of that this episode has the same actor playing two different roles. While I do fully understand the reasoning being this episode being as cheaply made as it is since it did have to share a budget with the previous episode the fact that this episode is cheap looking is still an issue that effects this whole entire episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Now then this episodes features the return of the Sontarans and I have to say that this episode isn't the best episode or even storyline for these characters. Since it's completely illogical for them to be scouting the earth when they full well know that the human race isn't on earth anymore and so it would be pointless for them to be scouting the earth because of the fact that there's no war in it for them which only just serves to make the Sontarans look pretty freaking dumb as all heck in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
So now then not only is this episode shot entirely on location but this episode also features no interior scenes whatsoever. Which was something that I personally felt was rather interesting because for so long we always see what the inside of the villains space craft or even vehicle or base or whatever looks like and so to see an episode that strips that away from us means that we now have to use are actual imaginations to imagine those exact same things that is always going to be a really freaking good thing in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Now then this episode does also do a good job of showing us the ever growing chemistry between Tom Baker , Elisabeth Sladen and Ian Marter. With all three actors and actresses getting some wonderfully silly and or even comedic moments together all of which did get a genuine laugh out of me because they were some wonderfully funny moments in this very episode with the jokes being very freaking well written and it becomes clear as freaking day that all three are starting to genuinely really freaking like each of screen as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
So now then this episode is only two episodes long and is actually the shortest serial in Tom Bakers first series of Doctor Who. Which means that both of these episodes get a combined grand total running time of roughly exactly forty nine minuets and running time length which for this kind of story is a bit of a freaking short amount of episodes for this kind of storyline and as such I really do feel that this storyline should have been at the very freaking least three or even perhaps even four episodes long in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Now then since there rather shockingly is an action sequence in this episode that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode and well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty pretty good. Which is the best thing that I can in all honesty about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode since well then this episode did have to deal with an injured Tom Baker which meant that they really couldn't do that much action stuff with him and that really did effect that action scene that we have in this vert freaking episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this wasn't that bad of a serial / episode but it was a huge step down from the The Ark In Space episode for me personally which didn't really effect my overall enjoyment of this episode but it is still a pretty bad thing in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode erns itself a grand old score of exactly a 5.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Amazon .CO .UK, the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the wonderful Google Images since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on Google Images are all fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly freaking high in definition.
