By: Anton Massopust III
In this two-part review, one is on Doctor Who: Legend of the Sea Devils (featuring current Doctor Jodie Whittaker) and the other the classic Doctor Who (featuring the First Doctor William Hartnell).
In the new Easter Special: The Legend of the Sea Devils, The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) along with her two companions Yasmin Khan (Mandip Gill) and Dan Lewis (John Bishop) travel back in time to Ancient China in 1807 looking for a lost treasure (a Keystone). Pirates led by Pirate Queen Madam Ching (Crystal Yu) steals the gem (the Keystone) that frees a Sea Devil Captain that was trapped inside a statue. He calls his fellow Sea Devil warriors in order to get this Keystone so he could bring worldwide disaster by flooding the earth so the Sea Devils can reinhabit the earth. The Doctor and Yaz leave in the Tardis to find out where the treasure is. Dan who is trapped becomes a member of the pirate crew, so he goes with the Pirate Queen and Local Villager Ying Wai (David K. S. Tse) to go to battle with the Sea Devils. The Doctor and Yaz use the Tardis to find the missing treasure, get attacked by a sea monster and eventually the Sea Devils. They run into another Chinese Pirate Captain whom the Doctor thinks is working for the Sea Devils, but it turns out he is trying to stop them. He knows what the Sea Devils are up to and is willing to sacrifice his life to stop them and prevent them from getting the Keystone.
The Doctor, her companions, and new friends defeat the Sea Devils. Although the Doctor is comingl close to the end of her regeneration, Yaz expresses her feelings that she really loves the Doctor and the Doctor knowing that her regeneration is coming to the end wishes that her adventures will go on forever, but this may be the end.
It’s a fun adventure story, but it has some flaws. Everybody speaks so fast, it’s hard to follow it. You have to turn up the sound on the TV to understand what is going on. It’s nice to see the sea Devils again. We haven’t seen them since they teamed up with the Silurians in “Warriors from the Deep.” They are related to the Silurians. They are the warrior class of that race.
Galaxy 4 is a classic missing Doctor Who adventure. Galaxy 4 is probably one of the weirdest Doctor Who’s stories ever made. The newly remastered through animation and audio that was given to the BBC by fans is brought back to DVD. William Hartnell, the First Doctor and his two companions, Vicki (Maureen O’Brien) and Steven Taylor (Peter Purves) journey to a mysterious planet that should contain life but has none at all. They find two factions of two different races, one or group of warrior women. However, only one of them is a real human, a woman named Maaga (Stephanie Bidmead) being and the others are manufactured clones that are only bred to do one thing and that is what they are ordered to do which is fight. The other faction is a group of aliens on a disabled ship who have to live behind glass because they can only breathe ammonia. They journey outside their ship using little robots that Vicki nicknames Chumlies. The Doctor doesn’t know who to trust. The planet is destroying itself. The Doctor finds the aliens with the alien spacecraft want to help the warrior women escape, but they refuse. The leader, Maaga wants to go to war with them and steal their ship. Eventually one faction (the women warriors along with Maaga) die as the planet disintegrates. The Doctor gives the damaged ship energy from the Tardis so the alien race can escape. The Doctor and his companions return and escape in the Tardis and continue their adventures.
The writer (William Emms) said that he wanted to make the good guys the bad guys and the bad guys the good guys. Should we add these two DVDs to our growing Doctor Who DVD collections? Absolutely. The Legend of the sea Devils also has a trailer for the next Autumn special which leads into the 60th Anniversary of Doctor Who. The old Companions and old enemies join the doctor in this big adventure coming up this autumn 2022. I also recommend Galaxy 4 which is the next of these continuing reproductions of missing adventures that we may never had a chance see. You can watch it in black and white or in color. It is fun to see. Let’s hope they bring us more of them in the future. Both DVDs are highly recommended.
