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 | Why Is It Always "Because I'm Hungry"? |
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| By: | David Layton, Los Angeles, United States |
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| Date: | Sunday 29 September 2024 |
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| Rating: |   7 |
Ghost Walk takes us to many places that Doctor Who has already been, and shows us around them one more time. The story is set in a Yorkshire village known as a site of hauntings. There is a contemporary setting (early 2000s?) and a historical setting (early 1700s). In the historical setting, the TARDIS arrives is some catacombs in which resides an alien entity, ancient and awful, that feeds off energy. In trying to escape this entity, the TARDIS crew get separated, and we follow three stories: The Doctor and Tegan trapped with the beast, Nyssa being mistaken for a witch, and Adric sentenced to death for stealing a loaf of bread. Somehow, all of this is connected to the contemporary setting in which a woman who runs a ghost walk business is the key to preventing Sebaoth, the hungry beast, from manifesting and devouring the world. The story thus involves the rapid introduction late into the story of The Doctor's secret escape plan, a la Stephen Moffat. I find some of the story unconvincing, especially the Nyssa part. It does not strike me as realistic that in the 1700s an English village, even one in Yorkshire, would just decide that any strange woman would automatically be a witch and that she would have to go through the old witch torture routines of a century prior. Additionally, I just don't get why ancient beings of immense power from the beginning of the universe have only one motivation - hunger. All they want to do is eat. Surely, the writers could come up with a more complex motivation than that. So, entertaining, but maddening in its deficiencies.
