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Doctor Who - The Pirate Planet (The Key to Time Series, Part 2)Rating:
Release Date: 01 October, 2002 Retail Price: $19.98 OUR Price: $17.99 You SAVE: $1.99! Cast: Complete Cast (10 total) |
Doctor Who - The Pirate Planet (The Key to Time Series, Part 2) Reviews
By the left frontal lobe of the sky demon!!
Doctor Who has and always will be remembered by me as one of the absolute greatest television series of all time. What it lacked in terms of budget and special effects, it more than made up for in terms of brilliant writing, witty dialogue, intriguing ideas, and great acting. Though, to me, even the notoriously "bad" special effects in the original run of the show were probably a good thing. They 1) added to the charm of the show, and 2) forced writers to work around budgeting constraints by intriguing the audience with amazingly clever stories alone. Just as big budgets have ruined many a horror director's talent, I suspect that a big budget would have also worsened Doctor Who. Here, in The Pirate Planet, we are given a brilliant sci fi premise by Douglas Adams, author of the Hitchhiker's Guide books and radio show, which is served up with his usual liberal amounts of gut-busting humor (which is also, I might add, perfect grist for the humor mill that is Tom Baker--what a nut!) The plot involves a large, hollow planet that captures and loots smaller planets by materializing around them, and then mining all of their valuable minerals. The Doctor calls this the greatest crime in the galaxy, and takes measures to put an end to it. Many of the laughs come to us from the villain, the pirate captain, who has a penchant for odd exclamations: "By the left frontal lobe of the sky demon!" "By the giant parrot of hades!" The Pirate Planet is great entertainment, and is probably the best story in the Key to Time season. My only complaint: put some makeup on those damn cold soars!!!
Douglas Adams' Best as Key to Time Continues
The Pirate Planet- the second story of the Key to Time adventure- follows perfectly on after The Ribos Operation with a hilarious script penned by Douglas Adams of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy fame. More laughs are to be expected and this is one Doctor Who that will delight the kids as well as any fan with a decent sense of humor. The Doctor and Romana arrive at the next stop in their quest to reassemble the segments of the fabled Key to Time and again end up invovled with the locals. These include a seemingly mad pirate captain who is scheming final vengeance against an old enemy, his nerdy little scientist friend, local nomads with powers unimagined, and a rather attractive nurse with a secret agenda of her own.
The Key to Time storyline carries on but in my opinion would start to run out of interesting ideas by the next story of the season. Still this title is as worthy a purchase as its predecessor and I recommend it to all Doctor Who and Douglas Adams enthusiasts. Order Doctor Who-The Pirate Planet today! Tell them Matt sent ya!
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