8/13/08
This two parter starts of with the Doctor and company landing in a town in 1984 England in which a group of historical re-enacters have gotten out of hand. They have started to believe that it is 1643 and that they are the real army, not just actors.
Turns out, they are unwittingly a pawn of a creature called the Malus, a satanic evil looking creature. It's feeding on their psychic energy from the war games they've been playing and it's pushing them too far.
There's a couple of things here that surprised me. The first is that this story really got under my skin. You see stories set in governments where the people have no say and are basically prisoners in their own city, but to see it brought home to modern day England and have people in their town not even able to do or say anything that is not agreeable to the military really unsettled me. It's a statement on free speech and how far we as society have come. I was taken aback at how unsettled seeing these freedoms being violated made me.
The other thing is that the Malus, the creature in this story, REALLY freaks me out. I don't know what it is...it's the design, surely, but there's more to it. In the town they land in, there is a huge stone edifice of the Malus with glowing green eyes, perhaps 8 feet tall. That was freaky. Then there is the psychic manifestation of the Malus which appears in the TARDIS. It's tiny, maybe the size of a cat, but it just looks so evil. The design team really outdid themselves on this one. While it doesn't look real, it looks pretty disturbing to me.
I give this story a 6/10.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
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