Doctor Who: The Return Of Doctor Mysterio

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John R 11/27/2023 The story was very low quality, unfortunately. See more 08/16/2014 One of the worst Doctor Who stories ever. How did they manage to get to the filming phase for this story. See more 01/12/2012 WHY USING THIS SCRIPT? WHY TURNING THE DOCTOR INTO A VILLAIN-LIKE CHARACTER WHOSE WEARING A EYE-RAPING COSTUME, AND WHY WOULD THE PRODUCERS CAST COLIN BAKER IN THE PART? With No clear answers, The Twin Dilemma is a god-awful Doctor Who adventure so bad, that I considered Tobe Hooper's 1985 film Lifeforce to be more of a Doctor Who adventure (Due to its plot and Peter Firth's Doctor-like performance) than this piece of garbage (that smack us whovians in the face) as a follow-up to the ever great predecessor, The Caves Of Androzani. Not Recommended See more 11/12/2010 "I am the Doctor, whether you like it or not." The first serial for the 6th (and most unpopular) Doctor is often stated as one of the worst ever. I wouldn't say it is great by any means, but I found it interesting in parts, which is more than I can say for some of the serials I've seen (such as the appalling Revelation of The Daleks for example). The first serial of any of the Doctors is always an interesting one, because he is often thrown into mad mood swings or other strange behaviour as his new body/mind settles down. In the previous regeneration from Tom Baker to Peter Davidson, this took on a comedic style, as Davidson excellently portrayed his four predecessors as they circled around his brain. This time around, the unsettled Doctor is a dark and dangerous incantation, even trying at one point to murder his companion. Although the change in character was confusing to audiences at the time, I can kind of understand why they did it. Davidson had played him as a charming and heroic character; leaving only really one direction to go in if the Doctor was going to progress in depth and interest. Colin Baker was given the very difficult task of turning a once likeable and friendly Doctor into a complete areshole, and he does this with admirable zeal. But the difficulty of course is that to have a hero we all want to enjoy watching, he has to be likeable and someone we want to emulate. Colin's Doctor from the outset is obnoxious, arrogant and very difficult to like. Whilst this worked with the cantankerous beginnings of the first Doctor's character (who is no doubt an influence on the way Colin plays him) because of his age and the fact that he had never met humans before at this stage; when it comes to the 6th Doctor it seems rather self-destructive to the programme; which of course it almost was. I don't want to bad-mouth C.Baker for the sake of it - he's often slagged off by fans and to be fair it's really not his fault. He has the difficult job of taking the Doctor back to his darker roots and he acts this with gravitas and authority that most actors would struggle with. He also has moments where he manages to make the Doctor's character completely his own, which is not an easy job when you think that 5 people had already played him at this point. Anyway, all of this is of course not telling as to whether this is a good serial or not. As with all first Doctor stories I have seen though, it tends to take second priority behind the important task of introducing the Doctor himself; which this one manages well, even though the story itself is pretty poor. Slug men versus human fir-cones is the best way I can describe it. A weak story that has none of the fleshing out needed to make it understandable or particularly interesting. But the main crux of this story is about the change in the Doctor, which makes this an interesting, if unlikable addition to the series. See more Read all reviews

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