Doctor Who fans after taking a few weeks of of reviewing all of Doctor Who season 19 i'm now finally back with my review of the very next season 19 episode. This episode is actually quite famous for being the last ever episode in the classic Doctor Who canon to feature the Sonic Screwdriver since the device would be destroyed in this episode and it wouldn't be seen again until the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie and so then join me as I review the episode that saw the death of the Sonic Screwdriver with the episode in question being called simply just "The Visitation" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is The Doctor and his companions find themselves near London in the 17th century and have to stop an evil race of Aliens from whipping out all of humanity by using a very deadly plague. 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 main plotline being genuinely quite engaging as well as being very entertaining as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode is of course Peter Davison as The Doctor , Matthew Waterhouse as Adric and Sarah Sutton as Nyssa. Also starring in this episode is Janet Fielding as Tegan Jovanka , Michael Robbins as Richard Mace , Michael Melia as Terileptil Leader , Peter Van Dissel as Android , James Charlton as The Miller , Neil West as The Poacher , Eric Dodson as The Headman , John Savident as The Squire , Anthony Calf as Charles , John Baker as Ralph , Valerie Fyfer as Elizabeth and Richard Hampton as A Villager.
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 not that bad. With all of this episode cast including this shows main cast turning in some truly wonderful performances which only goes to make this episode all the more memorable for me personally in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Now then this episode features one of the very rare occasions where a villain from the episode actually enters the TARDIS and this got me thinking why haven't we seen the Daleks enter the TARDIS before. Since seeing any villain enter the TARDIS is creepy enough already and yet to my knowledge at least we've never seen the Daleks enter the tardis which is such a shame because that would be such a freaking cool moment in the show and it would be a pretty creepy visual as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
As I mentioned at the very start of this review this episode was the last episode to feature the Sonic Screwdriver. This was done because both the writer of this episode Eric Saward and producer John Nathan-Turner hated the fact that the writers would often use the Sonic Screwdriver would often use the device to get the characters out of situations and so by removing the device the idea was that it would force the writers to get creative and in my opinion it worked really well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Oddly enough this episode doesn't continue on with this seasons tradition of having one companion to absent for the episode. With all three of this seasons companions playing a fairly substantial role in the plot of this episode which in all honesty makes me wonder why they had to get rid of a companion in the previous episodes when it's clear as day that they had the ability to give all three companions a substantial role in any given episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
This episode is also a historical episode which are always fun to watch and if i'm being honest this episode was a really good historical episode. With my one major issue being that this episodes main villains just weren't that threatening with this episodes monsters looking more like giant fish rather then instead of some kind of threatening alien race which for a classic Doctor Who episode is never ever going to be a good thing whatsoever in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Now then I cannot remember whatever this episodes grand total running time was but I do know that for a fact that this episode has /had an exact grand total running time of roughly one hour and thirty six minuets. Which was a bit on the short side for a story like this one since you very easily could have gotten at the least five episodes worth of storyline just out of this one story alone and by adding in that extra episode it would then allow you the chance to develop your characters and your villains which is something that very sadly cannot be done with a four episode limit in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Now then instead of talking about this episodes action which was clunky at best I instead want to talk about the fact that this episode features a very key British historical event. That being the great fire of London now I don't pretend to know alot about this event but either way it was great to see this episode tackle this event in a way that didn't feel like it was talking down to me since if anything it felt like that this episode was just having some fun with this event whilst also telling us just how important this event was in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this was a really fun episode to watch and it's one that I can very easily see myself coming back to after i've finished watching then thus reviewing every single episode of this season because this episode is just that good 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 7.5 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 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 very fairly freaking high in definition.
