Doctor Who:
The Next Doctor
By Russell T. Davies
“They leave. Because they should.
Or they find someone else. And some of them, some of them forget me. I suppose
in the end, they break my heart.”
Here is a story that is fun to
watch but isn’t one of the best ever. It is a pretty entertaining story that
features the Cybermen in Victorian England.
There is also the mystery of the man who is calling himself The
Doctor. The Doctor meets up with
Jackson Lake who had gotten the Doctor’s memories from an attack from The
Cybermen when the data was imprinted onto his brain. This was a pretty cool concept and was pretty
entertaining during the first part of the story.
In fact that was the best part of
The Next Doctor was watching the relationship between Jackson Lake and The
Doctor. Watching The Doctor trying to
figure out who Jackson was if he was truly a future Doctor was pretty good to see
and the comments from The Doctor where comical.
I liked how The Doctor found out who he was by using detective skills
all the while keeping up the charade as to not damage Jackson Lake’s already
fragile psyche. When they did the reveal
and you saw the older Doctor’s appear it was a pretty cool moment and the first
time the classic series has been acknowledge in the new series. I really liked the relationship between the
two and the scene at the end when Jackson invites The Doctor to Christmas
dinner was a really touching moment and you could see the sadness on The Doctor’s
face when he was talking to Jackson Lake about his past companions.
I did like the Steampunk Cyberman
that housed the Cyberking. I thought it
looked cool and pretty impressive and something you would expect the Cybermen
to make if they were in 1852. Even if it
looked stupid with the London backdrop of that time period the CyberKing itself
was pretty impressive with its steam operate parts and the canon it had for an
arm. The Cybershades were not bad
either. It was another steampunk type of
Cyberman with a copper face. This was
part animal of some sort and it could climb walls. It was ok for the most part and I guess if
the Cybermen had a dog this would have been it.
Where the story falls apart is
the whole Miss Hartigan becoming the leader of the Cybermen. Seems really unlikely that someone living in
Victorian times would be able to understand and take over Cybertechnology. In fact it seemed highly unlikely that anyone
from that era would willingly help the Cybermen at all. But her problem was that she was so hungry
for power that she did not see the Cybermen for what they were until it was too
late when The Doctor opened her eyes to what she had done.
The Next Doctor was an
entertaining story for Christmas time even if it was not the best story. It had some good moments like when the
Cybermen attacked the funeral at the cemetery.
That was pretty cool and was that more impressive with all the snow on
the ground. The Next Doctor is not the
worst story in Doctor Who but it did entertain.
Grade C +
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