Review Vengeance on Varos (1985)

[Doctor Omega]

Your thoughts on this story....

The TARDIS makes an emergency landing on Varos, a planet that used to be a penal colony, and where the native Varosians are presently entertained by broadcasts of real violence and death. Mistaken for rebels, the Doctor and Peri learn that Sil, an evil delegate of the Galatron mining corporation, bids to rule Varos and to control supplies of Zeiton 7 ore, which is the TARDIS's only fuel source.

On to the next story....

THE MARK OF THE RANI....

https://www.imdforums.com/threads/the-mark-of-the-rani-1985.5353/


Back to the previous story.....

ATTACK OF THE CYBERMEN....

https://www.imdforums.com/threads/attack-of-the-cybermen-1985.5312/

 

[Doctor Omega]

Colin thinks this is a classic - and lots of other people do too.

But I don't think it's a particularly entertaining or enjoyable story.

It has the plank of wood Connery in it. The bird changing thing seems pointless - and it has just a nasty edge to it without the genius of Robert Holmes to make it another Androzani, which also was full of nasty characters.

Colin nowadays shrugs off the Doctor's James Bond quip after the acid death, but I think it is another mis-step.