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Monday 3 October 2022

Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen Review

 


Doctor Who fans right now if rumours are to be believed then we are currently at the end of this run of animated reconstructions. Which is such a shame because right now these animated releases are a great way to introduce new fans to these classic stories and even tho i've had this story for a good few weeks this is the first time that i've been able to review it and so then join me as I review the episode that is Deborah Watling's favourite episode with the episode in question being called simply just "The Abominable Snowmen" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is after The Doctor , Jamie and Victoria land in Tibet in 1935 they discover a plan for world domination. 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 plot being genuinely entertaining in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Starring in this episode is Patrick Troughton as The Doctor , Frazer Hines as Jamie McCrimmon and Deborah Watling as Victoria Waterfield. Also starring in this episode is Jack Watling as Professor Travers , Wolfe Morris as Padmasambhava , Charles Morgan as Songsten , Norman Jones as Khrisong , David Grey as Rinchen , David Spenser as Thonmi , Raymond Llewellyn as Sapan and David Baron as Ralpachan.

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 good. With all of this episode cast turning in some truly wonderful performances which is to be expected given that Doctor Who even at it's worst nearly always has some really good acting within it's episodes in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.



Doing the animation for all six episodes of this mostly missing adventure is Digitoonz Media & Entertainment PVT LTD. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good and is quite easily among some of the best animation that has been in any one of these Doctor Who missing episode animations in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


What I wasn't expecting is the fact that they gave the character of Victoria quite a lot to interms of the plot. Since she's there for pretty much every single event that happens in this plot heck even a subplot in one of the episodes revolves entirely around her and this was a nice surprise since alot of the Doctor Who animations that I own have this character in a rather small role and so it was nice to see her take on a much more bigger role for his adventure and it's something that I felt worked really well in this episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

One thing that I really didn't like about this episode is the fact at least from an animation standpoint they really didn't make The Yeti seem all that frightening. Which is a shame because on paper they do sound really scary but here in this animation they really didn't make them out to be that scary instead they just come across as exactly what they are and that's robots that are being controlled instead of actually scary monsters that we the audience should be afraid of in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


These animations would always make small changes to episodes either by trimming scenes down a bit or just straight up cutting scenes out. However this episode changes entire ethnicities which while I can fully understand why they did that since in the original broadcast episodes all of the monks where all played by white British men in make up however by changing all of that and keeping the original vocal performances intact your drawing even more attention to the design changes and plus if your doing a reconstruction of something then you owe to those involved to keep alot of things that was made for the original broadcast episode intact as they were back when it was first being made and then thus being broadcast in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Now then while I cannot for the absolutely life of me remember whatever this episodes exact running time even was I do know that for a fact that this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of roughly two hours and twenty minuets. Which I have to admit really did fly by this is because every single one of this episodes six episodes is all about advancing the plot of the episode and because of that this episode really does have some truly great pacing to it with all of it's episodes really being needed to tell this one whole story in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


So now then since this is an action 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 bad. Since all of the Yeti's where just men in suits and so they really could do alot with them action action wise but they do all that they could have done with them action wise and that really does work well enough in this episodes favour in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Overall while this was a very enjoyable adventure and while it as alot better then the The Web Of Fear animation animation wise I think that the The Web Of Fear has the much more better and scarier storyline to it 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 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 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 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.