The Doctor races to stop Thawn from destroying the Swampie settlement and then works to destroy Kroll once and for all.The Doctor races to stop Thawn from destroying the Swampie settlement and then works to destroy Kroll once and for all.The Doctor races to stop Thawn from destroying the Swampie settlement and then works to destroy Kroll once and for all.
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- Sydney Newman(uncredited)
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- TriviaThe Doctor, talking to himself before his final encounter with Kroll, says he is seven hundred sixty years old. This suggests he is either rounding up (as his age was given as seven hundred fifty-nine in "The Ribos Operation") or he's had a birthday since beginning the Key to Time mission. A birthday scene was originally planned for "The Stones of Blood" but dropped by Graham Williams, who considered it "too self-indulgent".
- GoofsWhen the Doctor is trying to cut the cables to prevent the rocket from launching, the beeps of the countdown indicate that the display should be clicking down from 15 to 14 when the camera switches back to the display, but it actually shows the countdown going from 10 to 9. Then listening to the bleeps further, the countdown should be at -2 when the display shows it going from 2 to 1, and the Doctor stops the countdown after another bleep occurs, which should have been too late.
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I've had enough of Squid, for life!!
Mercifully this was a four parter, not a six. Kroll is at large, indiscriminately dragging people, be they dry foot or swampie. Thawn demands the rocket is fired to destroy Kroll and Swampie kind, Dugeen tries to overpower him but fails, so it falls on The Doctor to try to stop him.
At least with Robert Holmes you get a high death count, and Power of Kroll at least has that.
The Kroll CGI effects for the time were rather well realised, and look fairly good even today.
I would have thought the casting would have worked better if Madoc had played Thawn and Neil McCarthy played Fenner, Madoc had a authority that would have been better suited to being the boss.
Parts 2 and 3 were exceedingly dull, this part is definitely better, and has some of the character the opening part had, it's an improvement. Still too much of Tom playing for laughs.
Maybe it would have worked a bit better if the Swampies were a bit brighter, they are a bit on the dense side. The characterisations in general are really badly observed. Even Romana's been on the silly pills, her intelligence has been zapped.
Robert Holmes is for good reason held in very high esteem, but he was responsible for a few duffs, The Krotons and The Space Pirates, but Kroll takes the biscuit.
Part 4 is an improvement, but still pretty average, on the whole the story is hard to love.
At least with Robert Holmes you get a high death count, and Power of Kroll at least has that.
The Kroll CGI effects for the time were rather well realised, and look fairly good even today.
I would have thought the casting would have worked better if Madoc had played Thawn and Neil McCarthy played Fenner, Madoc had a authority that would have been better suited to being the boss.
Parts 2 and 3 were exceedingly dull, this part is definitely better, and has some of the character the opening part had, it's an improvement. Still too much of Tom playing for laughs.
Maybe it would have worked a bit better if the Swampies were a bit brighter, they are a bit on the dense side. The characterisations in general are really badly observed. Even Romana's been on the silly pills, her intelligence has been zapped.
Robert Holmes is for good reason held in very high esteem, but he was responsible for a few duffs, The Krotons and The Space Pirates, but Kroll takes the biscuit.
Part 4 is an improvement, but still pretty average, on the whole the story is hard to love.
- Sleepin_Dragon
- Aug 19, 2015
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