I love the zero point blank space they inhabit – green screening with no image added is a truly brilliant idea, and it really feels like they are wandering out into perilous nothingness. It’s deliberately obscure, but is also wrestling with complex ideas, and the substance is there – this story is worth re-watching to really understand what was happening.
The second least comprehensible Classic Who story, after the ~Seventh Doctor~ story Ghost Light, I love this to bits.
#The warriors gate review serial#
If this concept had been used for a late-night indie Sci-fi film, it could have been a cult-classic like Dark Star, but they made it into a Doctor Who serial aimed at families, so it’s not. Warriors’ Gate has a place as a piece of drama, just not here. It tries to be clever, but nothing happens in it, and saying “Inertia is one of the story’s themes” isn’t good enough it still has to be entertaining. This serial is about inevitability (and also tries to awkwardly squeeze in randomness, which then goes nowhere), but it’s being too deep for Saturday prime-time. Rorvik’s final maniacal laugh was unenthusiastic, but not entirely his fault it was out-of-tone for the piece and he shouldn’t have been made to do it. The supporting cast’s acting was average, but they got across the idea they had been stuck there for months, with their sense of despondency and ill-discipline. The special effects were basic, but conveyed their point you could tell that the Tharils were supposed to have some sort of extra-temporal quality they also look significantly better than the Cheetah People from 1989’s Survival.
Adric does nothing the Doctor does next to nothing and finds out he’d have been better off not even doing that. If the TARDIS hadn’t turned up, everything would have happened as it did anyway. This is Romana’s story, as much as it can be considering it feels like it wasn’t originally conceived as a Doctor Who series. Overall this story earns 4.5 broken Doctor fingers out of 5. From space ship to haunted castle, they all look great. Sets and models are incredible in this one and with such variety. “The three gateways are one!”, chills I tell you. Sound design on the robots was fantastic. In terms of production value this story has plenty. The juxtaposition of past and present (and both races of slavers) as the mystery unfolds is amazing and fits well in this psychedelic sci-fi story. The absolute apathy the Doctor and Romana show towards him certainly doesn’t help his case either.Īs for plot this story has it in spades, with a trippy tale of traders- I mean slavers. Romana (and K-9’s) melancholy departure is certainly a more fitting end than what most other companions get, but it does feel tacked on.Īdric is… well Adric: sort of useful but really is given nothing to do. Her verbal duel with the three men investigating the Tardis was incredibly satisfying. Finally the Tardis crew gets the F out of E! But first a trip through the VOID
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