Singularity

The TARDIS encounters temporal distortion which brings the Doctor and Turlough to Moscow in the mid-twenty first century. The Somnus institute - also known as The Sleepers - have erected a massive glass tower by Red Square and are promising a future where mankind evolves into a godlike being, although the Doctor knows that the future does not unfold this way at all. The temporal distortion grows more and more until the time line beings to split, threatening to tear the entire cosmos apart, with the Doctor and Turlough right at the centre of it.

It's not often that the Doctor meets people who are just pure malevolance, and here they are again. And it's not exactly an alien invasion per se this time, which makes things very interesting. And the choice of Moscow as the location is also an interesting one; the location doesn't really mean much to the story - it could happen anywhere - but then again it's not like London is so pivotal to the entire planet that every adventure has to happen there.

And here's how mean they are. They torture the TARDIS. There's a little Christopher H Bidmead in everyone it seems as the ship comes close to destruction at the hands of the Somnus people in their aim to fulfill their plans. Nasty.

This pisses the Doctor off. It's different when Davison's Doctor gets angry; he's "the nice one" as far as everyone is concerned.

And Turlough. His cowardice comes into play again, and he reluctantly gets involved at the beginning, and even he gets angry at people in part four. But so would you if you'd been bodysnatched. There's a twist to their relationship, though, when Turlough tells the Doctor that he's angry at being the Doctor's little tag along companion and he's never told anything, and he even makes a comment under his breath about how long he'll remain with the Doctor.

No mention of Kamelion, though.

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