Loups~Garoux
The TARDIS brings the Doctor and Turlough to Rio in the days before the carnival, but they are not the only strangers in town. An ancient and powerful grey werewolf has crossed the ocean in pursuit of his perfect mate - a woman who has tried to hide from him for years. Together with other members of her pack Ilyana attempts to hide from her pursuer and keep her half-human son safe, but if the Grey One gets his way, the world will fall under his thrall and no-one will be able to stop him.
Incredible. But that's what one should expect from a script by Marc Platt, especially when the regular cast is joined by the likes of Elanor Bron as Ilyana. I remember the first time I listened to this one I was on a train heading to Windsor, and as the bulk of part two takes place on a train it was a fun way to do it. Listening to it on the TTC isn't quite the same, but in this cold weather of February it's very easy to allow yourself to buy into the notion of sunny Rio de Janerio and escape for a few minutes. With Doctor Who we're always so ready to say how we don't think the show "looks" like it was shot where it is said to be, but the changes of scenes in this one work so well that it's easy to imagine the locations, from Ilyana's home, to the train station and space port, to the desert that used to be the Amazon basin, and the city of Rio itself.
Nitpicky bits? A couple. The howling the werewolves make; it's not very scary. I know a Yorkie named Chippy who is more intimidating. The Doctor has some interesting close calls with the female species, and backs off all stuttery and nervous almost as if it were Hugh Grant in the role instead of Peter Davison. And why he goes to talk to Turlough about it I have no idea. Maybe because Turlough scores this episode. He does, you know; with a native girl named Rosa who would actually have made an okay companion. And speaking of companions, so sign of Kamelion again, right when he could have been particularly helpful, what with there being all that shape-shifting to be done.
OwwwwwwOOOOOOooooooooOOOOOOOOOooooo.
NEXT EPISODE : SINGULARITY
Incredible. But that's what one should expect from a script by Marc Platt, especially when the regular cast is joined by the likes of Elanor Bron as Ilyana. I remember the first time I listened to this one I was on a train heading to Windsor, and as the bulk of part two takes place on a train it was a fun way to do it. Listening to it on the TTC isn't quite the same, but in this cold weather of February it's very easy to allow yourself to buy into the notion of sunny Rio de Janerio and escape for a few minutes. With Doctor Who we're always so ready to say how we don't think the show "looks" like it was shot where it is said to be, but the changes of scenes in this one work so well that it's easy to imagine the locations, from Ilyana's home, to the train station and space port, to the desert that used to be the Amazon basin, and the city of Rio itself.
Nitpicky bits? A couple. The howling the werewolves make; it's not very scary. I know a Yorkie named Chippy who is more intimidating. The Doctor has some interesting close calls with the female species, and backs off all stuttery and nervous almost as if it were Hugh Grant in the role instead of Peter Davison. And why he goes to talk to Turlough about it I have no idea. Maybe because Turlough scores this episode. He does, you know; with a native girl named Rosa who would actually have made an okay companion. And speaking of companions, so sign of Kamelion again, right when he could have been particularly helpful, what with there being all that shape-shifting to be done.
OwwwwwwOOOOOOooooooooOOOOOOOOOooooo.
NEXT EPISODE : SINGULARITY
Labels: The 5th Doctor, Turlough
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