Doctor Who fans yes i'm very fully aware of the fact that it's been quite a while since I last reviewed an episode from season nineteen. However in my defence I just like taking my time with this season since this season is the season that feels the most cosey and so i'm just reviewing as and when I want to and so then join me as I review the episode that both Peter Davison and Janet Fielding don't like with the freaking episode in question being called simply just "Black Orchid" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is The Doctor and his companions are caught up in a murder mystery one which sees The Doctor himself as the prime suspect. 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 pretty bad with this episodes plot being very thin at best 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 and Ann Talbot. Also starring in this episode is Janet Fielding as Tegan Jovanka , Michael Cochrane as Lord Cranleigh , Barbara Murray as Lady Cranleigh , Gareth Milne as The Unknown , Moray Watson as Sir Robert Muir , Ivor Salter as Sergeant Markham , Andrew Tourell as Constable Cummings , Ahmed Khalil as Latoni , Brian Hawksley as Brewster and Timothy Block as Tanner.
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 the series main cast turning in some good performances but the series guest cast do turn in some fairly over the top performances in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
As I mentioned when crediting the cast for this episode this episode features Sarah Sutton in a duel role as both her regular role of Nyssa and as new character Ann Talbot. With her playing both characters rather wonderfully and what really does help is the fact that she makes both characters so differently from each other that even casual Doctor Who fans would be able to tell which character is which in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
This was the episode that introduced The Doctors love of cricket which is something that Peter Davison reportedly loved as it justified The Doctors costume. I personally didn't mind the cricket sequence as it was a rather fun sequence in this story however given that this story is only two episodes long there really shouldn't have been a sequence like this in the episode as every would have to be about either setting up the plot of the story or about advancing the plot of the story in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
If people were to tell me that they didn't like this story wasn't there favourite story or that they didn't like this story I would totally see where they were coming from. Since this story is so forgettable at the best of times and the episodes script just isn't up to scratch which might be because this script was commissioned when the show didn't have a script editor and by the time one was hired it would have most likely have been to late for any kind if major rewrites to be done to the script in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
This episode does have a really cool reveal which i'm not going to reveal here since the episode is worth seeing just for the reveal alone. However I will admit that the reveal would have been a bit better if there where more clues spread all throughout the story as to what was actually going on since that would mean that the reveal doesn't come out of nowhere which is always a very good thing indeed in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Now then while I cannot for the absolutely life of me remember whatever this episodes grand total running time even was I do know that for a fact that this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of roughly forty nine minuets. Which is such an incredibly short amount of time for this episode to have since you very easily could have gotten four or six episodes out of this one story alone and with that added time it would mean that all of the very underdeveloped characters could now be a bit mre three dimensional in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
So now then since there is some action 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 action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. Since it was something that was very well built up and so then when there was some action it really did feel earned in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this is a rather forgettable episode which is a shame because it's big reveal is a really good idea and it's one that could have been more impactful if the episode had alot more time to tell it's in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the good things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very erns itself a grand old score of exactly a 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 freaking Google Images are all fairly freaking high in freaking quality and as well as being very fairly freaking high in definition.