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| By: | David Layton, Los Angeles, United States |
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| Date: | Tuesday 26 November 2024 |
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| Rating: |   6 |
This entry in the Companion Chronicles series has Susan telling a story about an adventure she and her grandfather had before the events of An Unearthly Child. This is meant to fill in a gap created by an offhand remark in the episode The Edge of Destruction. So, The Doctor and Susan travel to the Fourth Universe, landing on a primitive planet where the simple people believe that a single person could potentially have the power to make rain. Of course, The Doctor gets mistaken for rainmaker, and off we go. Susan, meanwhile, has repeated interactions with a ragged orphan girl who turns out to be something quite different and much more menacing. What irked me about this one is the depiction of the people of Quinnis as just superstitious, low-level thinkers ruled by their emotions. It's a hamfisted, stereotypical depiction of societies with basic technologies. Perhaps it fits in with the early Doctor Who stories by working that way, but I find Quinnis disappointing given what it could have been.
