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Saturday 26 March 2022

Doctor Who: Four To Doomsday Review

 


Doctor Who fans it's the weekend and so then you all know what that means it's time for me to review the very next episode in Doctor Who Season 19. I will very much admit that I was actually very much looking forward to seeing this episode just because I was so looking forward just to be watching any kind of Doctor Who be it new Doctor or classic Doctor Who and so then join me as I review the episode that is actually the very episode that Peter Davison actually filmed for Doctor Who with the episode in question being called simply just "Four To Doomsday" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is The Doctor , Adric , Nyssa and Tegan find themselves  onboard a spacecraft heading for Earth however the ships commander has something sinister planned for the inhabitants of the planet Earth. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot 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 plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad with this episodes plotline also being pretty engaging in parts in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.



Starring in this episode is of course Peter Davison as The Doctor , Matthew Waterhouse as Adric , Sarah Sutton as Nyssa and Janet Fielding as Tegan Jovanka. Also starring in this episode is Stratford Johns as Monarch , Annie Lambert as Enlightenment , Paul Shelley as Persuasion , Philip Locke as Bigon and as The Voice Of Control , Nadia Hammam as Villagra , former Last Of The Summer Whine star Burt Kwouk as Lin Fut and Illarrio Bisi Pedro as Kurkutji.

Now then interms 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. With Peter Davison really doing a good job in this episode which wasn't something that I expected to be the case as this was the first Doctor Who that he filmed and so then nobody would have blamed hi if he freaking turned in an above average performance in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.



As with the last episode this episode also makes use for a lot of CGI effects which for the time in which they were done I thought that they were really well done. I will very much that I really did like alot of the special effects in this episode since they were all I alot better then what I thought that they would be and even tho you can quite clearly tell that they filmed Peter Davison on a blue screen the special effects that we get in this episode really do hold up really well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.  


Now then as mentioned this episode was in fact the very first full episode that actor Peter Davison actually filmed for Doctor Who. Even tho he admitted to being very nervous during his first day on set it really doesn't come through in this episode since he comes across as somebody whom has been playing the role of The Doctor for many years and that is something that is hard to pull of in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

This episode is I believe the last ever episode until the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie to feature the Sonic Screwdriver. Which i'm kind of glad of just because the Sonic Screwdriver gives us an easy way for the characters to get out of danger and that thus removes any and all kinds of tension but at the same time it was also a huge part of the Doctor Who iconography and it should be treated as such in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Like with last weeks episode this weeks episode also have a companion just straight up disappear from the storyline with that honor now going to Nyssa whom I believe also gets the exact same treatment in the very next episode as well. Which only goes to serve to highlight why having three companions in the TARDIS in the exact same time is going to be an issue because it will always mean that one or even more companions will always get short changed and in the long run that is never ever going to be a good thing at all in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Now then while I cannot remember whatever this episodes grand total exact running time was I do know that this episode had a rough grand total running time of roughly one hour and I think thirty seven minuets. With this series being four episodes long and each of those four episodes lasting roughly twenty for to twenty five minuets long however I do feel that you could have squeezed at the very least one more episode out of this storyline just because then you could have made the villains plan a little bit more clearer then what it already is and you could have given some character development to The Doctor companions in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.  


Now then since there was some action in this very 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 not that freaking bad. However it wasn't that good either which is kind of the issue here as this episodes action comes across as being both cheap and incredibly lazy in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Overall this episode was a really good episode and it's one that I can very easily see myself coming back to over and over again which is always going to be a very good thing for me personally 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 freaking grand old total score of exactly an 8 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 and 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 freaking high in freaking quality and as well as being fairly freaking high in definition.