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Thursday, August 11, 2005

The Final Sanction


I'm not going to talk a lot about this one, because I don't like it.

Steve Lyons drags his lacklustre Selachians back up out of the literary mire for another round against the Doctor, but this time it's more complicated than before. With Jamie and Zoe in tow, the Doctor is caught in the last days of the war between Humans and Selachians. Jamie ends up fighting alongside the Humans, and Zoe is taken prisoner and held captive. The Doctor, however, is put in an interesting position, one that has never been examined before. Usually the Doctor and company meet important historical figures and go to great lengths to make sure that history is not changed by their presence. This time, the Doctor encounters a piece of "future history" wherein someone he meets will go on to be an important figure even farther on after the war - but the Doctor is faced with the dilemma of saving his companions by changing that future, or letting them die to preserve it. Interesting.

I still didn't like it though.

NEXT EPISODE : THE COLONY OF LIES

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