Welcome to Day 1 of Doctor’s Regenerations Week. I will be skipping around throughout the
years and reincarnations if you will just to give you folks a bit of a headache
or possibly just a slight case of heartburn but I will be succinct as humanly
possible. In this episode particularly
we get to see a completely different Doctor not merely just in body but also
spirit so check the atmosphere, try to
not get separated and for crying out loud fix that chameleon circuit this is
Doctor Who: Twin Dilemma.
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| So which one of us will be Horton then? |
The Doctor: I am a
living spoiler to the universe!
Moments from dying of Spectrox formula the Doctor (Peter
Davison of Doctor Who, Anna of the Five Towns, Mystery!: Campion, The Mrs. Bradley
Mysteries and The Last Detective) managed to crash land a large vessel,
free its captors and come up with an antidote for the Spectrox poison that both
he and his companion Peri (Nicola Byrant of Doctor Who, Blackadder’s
Christmas Carol, More Than a Messiah Holby City and Doctors) were to
perish. As always, he tended to her
first only to die from the poison and was regenerated in the process. Peri regains consciousness and tries to rouse
the Doctor when he changes before her eyes.
Elsewhere in the universe a pair of identical twins computate
formulae to the likes that have not been seen before. Their complex calculations would provide a
means for immeasurable power on a catastrophic level. The power to collapse a sun and use that
energy as you see fit. The possibilities
are mind boggling as these young lads are kidnapped by a former Timelord,
Edgeworth (Maurice Denham of Animal Farm, Sunday Bloody Sunday, The Day of the Jackal
and 84 Charing Cross Road) in order to save the people he cares for.
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| No, I did not spill salt in your way and that will be the last of it! |
The Doctor proceeds to change his wardrobe and is annoyed of
Peri’s prattling on as he puts it and explains that he is quite happy with his
change as his previous life was a load of rubbish and nicety. Peri defends his former self in explaining he
was nice and thoughtful and the Doctor not fully in control of his faculties,
attempts to throttle her. Hey I think
we have all been there at least once.
The twins have been concealed on a dilapidated asteroid known
as Titan 3 which by a strange coincidence the Doctor feels he must now go to as
well in order to purify these sudden outbursts of deranged rage. I thought he could just expel Peri out into
space just as easily too but hey my opinion clearly did not matter in the
course of this seemingly innocent plot device.
Soon the young ones find that their equations are being put
to use by an order of ancient beings evolved from the common gastropod (slug) for the survival of the species.
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| I think you need to hit Radio Shack for a new rabbit ears set. |
The Doctor and Peri find the wreckage of a star vessel and
find a young pilot who joins them in pursuit of the twins but all the while the
Doctor seems very out of sorts from being brilliant one moment, petulant the
next and finally a degree of cowardice.
As it is with every regeneration, it takes the Doctor a few to regain
his space and time legs.
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