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| By: | Matthew David Rabjohns, Bridgend, United Kingdom |
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| Date: | Saturday 28 March 2009 |
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| Rating: |  10 |
So far these companion chronicles have been written very well, all the different stories seem to fit seamlessly into the season they are portrayed to come from.
But this is a very special story. What with Debbie Watling back finally as the great companion Victoria. That oh so great comapanion with so much promise and yet with only one whole season to her name. She was such a good actress, not just entirely screamy and all that.
When you get an old companion you have to have a story that doesnt dissapoint. i think the Great Space Elevator is the most easily fitting story into season 5 yet. Jonathan Morris is really quite a deep thinking writer, always writing stories with strong moral pointers. And he gets the feel of that season right down to the core.
You have the cramped settings, you have the trigger happy guards, you have the weird alien trying to take over the world and feed to survive. So yet again this is an earth story, which all but one of season 5 were. This is so very well read by Debbie too.
Helen Goldwyn is also a great choice for the second acting voice in this. Jon even gets the get up right, with a reference to a very small and short miniskirt.
Doctor Who with Patrick troughton always was full of suspense and dark shadows and shady aliens. And this story is all of this. These companion chronicles are now one of my favourite parts of Doctor Who.
| By: | Clive T Wright, St Lawrence, United Kingdom |
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| Date: | Tuesday 21 June 2011 |
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| Rating: |  9 |
This would have made a classic 2nd Doctor story for TV, perfectly capturing the period and typical plot of the time.
The Sci-Fi is over the top, people are lost to technology, there is the standard underlying message about the balance of science and nature. Big buttons, lifts, energy, lots of running around and some great sexist lines from Jamie.
Great fun.
| By: | David Layton, Los Angeles, United States |
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| Date: | Tuesday 1 April 2025 |
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| Rating: | 7 |
The Great Space Elevator works best for those seeking pure nostalgia. Jonathan Morris wrote this so that it would fit seamlessly into 1967 Doctor Who. The two reference points for the story and how it progresses would be The Ice Warriors and The Seeds of Death. The TARDIS crew land in near future Earth next to a scientific installation, in this case a space elevator, a new idea in the late 1960s (perhaps not even thought of back then, as the first science fiction story featuring the idea that I can figure is Arthur C. Clarke's The Fountains of Paradise, from the late 1970s). After being arrested for trespassing, The Doctor somehow inveigles himself and Jamie and Victoria into helping the staff solve a problem, one that turns out to be to no one's surprise an attempted alien invasion using the installation. The invaders this time are not well described or clarified, and do not even get a name, but basically they are the Static Electricity Monsters. Much that goes on in the story is relatively preposterous, but since the intention is to replicate the spirit of a past era's entertainment, one would have to call this a success.
