Doctor Who and the Armageddon Factor

Rating:
Summary: Last segment a bit tired
Review: The TARDIS arrives somewhere near the planet Atrios, the location of the sixth and final segment of the Key of Time. But there is trouble: Atrios is at war with its twin, the planet Zeos. The war has lasted a long time, and Atrios is under the command of the Marshal, its war leader, while the royal family have been reduced to figureheads. But Princess Astra has other ideas, and her plans are inexorably caught up in the quest for the final segment.

One of the problems with the Key to Time series is that it is, perhaps, too long. The elements introduced five stories earlier finally come to fruition in this story, but have largely been ignored between the first and last story. And, indeed, the whole of 'The Armageddon Factor' is overshadowed by the anticipated assembly of the Key and confrontation with the Black Guardian that they seem insignificant and even annoying.

Which is a bit of a pity, really, since this story contains a substantial antiwar and anti-propaganda message that, I believe, should have been in the foreground rather than hidden behind the almost anti-climatic conclusion to the Key to Time sequence.

Rating:
Summary: Last segment a bit tired
Review: The TARDIS arrives somewhere near the planet Atrios, the location of the sixth and final segment of the Key of Time. But there is trouble: Atrios is at war with its twin, the planet Zeos. The war has lasted a long time, and Atrios is under the command of the Marshal, its war leader, while the royal family have been reduced to figureheads. But Princess Astra has other ideas, and her plans are inexorably caught up in the quest for the final segment.

One of the problems with the Key to Time series is that it is, perhaps, too long. The elements introduced five stories earlier finally come to fruition in this story, but have largely been ignored between the first and last story. And, indeed, the whole of 'The Armageddon Factor' is overshadowed by the anticipated assembly of the Key and confrontation with the Black Guardian that they seem insignificant and even annoying.

Which is a bit of a pity, really, since this story contains a substantial antiwar and anti-propaganda message that, I believe, should have been in the foreground rather than hidden behind the almost anti-climatic conclusion to the Key to Time sequence.