Enter the warriors gate cover dvd1/1/2024 Adric meanwhile, wanders into the inn and is taken in by the headman of the village and his wife, whose son was taken from them recently during a Choosing. They quickly run into the local constabulary and, as suspicious characters, are taken to The Three Who Rule in the castle. Of course, in Doctor Who the castle is an ancient spaceship, the rebels use decrepit electronic scanners and the boss vampire is a powerful alien.Īfter arriving on the unnamed planet, the Doctor and Romana set off exploring, not realizing that young Adric is hiding on the TARDIS. State of Decay is a riff on the classic tale of the small village ruled with an iron fist by the evil vampire that lives in the castle on the ridge. At the end, Romana is recovering from a mind altering viral infection, the Doctor is unscathed, and Adric has stowed away on the TARDIS. It is up to the Doctor to save the Alzarians from the marauding marsh men, overcome the institutional secrecy of the Deciders, and figure out how to pilot the starliner, which information has been lost over time, with a little genetic research thrown in. It turns out that the marsh men, the humanoid Alzarians and the red eyed spiders that burst out of the marsh fruit may be connected in some deep way. A first clue is Adric's amazing ability to heal from serious wounds, discovered by Romana soon after their first meeting. For this reason, every Mistfall everyone retires to the starliner, locks it up and stays put for a few years.Īs might be expected, everything is not as it seems. These marsh men are mute, but vicious, and kill the defenseless people of Alzarius without apparent provocation or reason. This is a bad thing, since along with the mist come marsh men, who look suspiciously like the Creature from the Black Lagoon. However, every few decades Mistfall comes. ![]() This is an Eden like planet, where happy folks gather fruit, swim and perform routine maintenance on their crashed starliner, with no apparent worries. Soon, they discover that they are on the planet Alzarius. (According to information provided in the extra materials, there may actually be some scientific basis for this kind of thing, but not in a narratively satisfying way that allows people to fight space vampires and marsh men.) When the Doctor and Romana discover that, though their instruments tell them they are on Gallifrey a quick look outside tells them they're not, they venture out to explore. ![]() In Full Circle, the Doctor and Romana are sucked into e-space when they accidentally pass through a charged vacuum emboitment, or CBE. Below, we will go through each disc individually.Į-space is shorthand for exo-space, and is a sort of smaller sub-universe inside of the normal universe. ![]() As always, the BBC has done an excellent job in presentation, stuffing each disc with extras, and providing as high sound and video quality as can be expected with the source material. The show was going through a transitional period at the time, trying to find a new voice, and coupled with some behind the scenes acrimony, some of the innocent joy of the earlier Baker stories is lost. Although all three are fun to watch, they are not from the high point in Baker's career as the Doctor. These three stories occur toward the very end of Tom Baker's tenure on the show, and are bookended by the arrival of Adric (Matthew Waterhouse) into the series and the exit of Romana (played at this point by Lalla Ward) and K-9 (voiced by John Leeson). The BBC, in their ongoing effort to release every Doctor Who episode ever made (which effort this reviewer heartily approves) has put out a three DVD box set, Doctor Who: The E-Space Trilogy - Full Circle/State of Decay/Warrior's Gate.
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