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Doctor Who - The Power of Kroll (The Key to Time Series, Part 5)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 Power of Kroll (The Key to Time Series, Part 5) Reviews
Green Guys Can't Dance
The low point of the sixteenth season, with green guys who can't dance or even chant "Kroll" with an even beat, a dance that looks like it was choreographed by a seventh grade gym teacher, a silly model processing station and giant squid in a bathtub, the Doctor and Romana suddenly sprouting hip waders and goloshes, etc, etc. Yet, somehow it's still fun and will stay in my collection.
Were we watching the same thing?
I would like to point out that a fan of any TV series does not have to adore every single episode of it.
This story, for example, is a pretty limp attempt to do a 'King Kong'. The silly-looking natives are replaced by (arguably) even sillier-looking men in green paint and wooly hats, who chant 'Kroll' instead of 'Kong'. The characters are pretty wooden and virtually nothing seems to happen for most of the adventure.
On the plus side, Tom Baker's Doctor is at his best and the whole thing is taken seriously, which is certainly a refreshing change in what is mainly a rather childish era of the series. But how can you take seriously a rubber monster battling a wobbly toy oil rig? The final episode could have been gripping but is just rendered laughable by special effects which are dire even by the standards of this series.
This adventure might have been entertainingly bad if it wasn't so boring.
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