#Julia mckenzie star trek full#
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Sparkling Dialogue: ‘You called a Lord President of Gallifrey, Fred?’ His voice is far too easily recognisable now after so much exposure in countless roles. Perhaps we’ve reached a point where somebody else should get to play with the Daleks and their offshoots. You can distort his voice all you like, you simply cannot disguise Nicholas Briggs. Standout Performance: How fun was McKenzie’s take on the various personalities of the Twelve? She’s such a skilled performer that she managed to give each personality a very distinct voice. There’s not a prison, a cell or a surgical table that can hold her. Her previous selves might have been maniacs but they had plenty of skills and the Time Lords wanted to utilise those skills in their war effort. Eight was the exception to prove the rule, sweet and calm. They are locked away where they can’t do any harm.

#Julia mckenzie star trek full#

I mean, who doesn’t love a kind old lady? What’s not to trust? She has a neural inhibitor, which means she has full control over her other selves who were getting far too unruly for their own good. I was never that keen on the Eleven as a character because I felt he devolved far too often into pantomime villainy and ranting and so to bring McKenzie as a complete contrast (but with all the weight of the history that the Doctor has with the previous incarnation of this character) gives the character an engaging new lease of life. And having an actress of the calibre of Julia McKenzie playing The Twelve is always going to be good news. I’m not surprised, regeneration whilst still being a brilliant concept is also one that has been exhausted by various mediums and so I’m not surprised that a fresh spin on the idea is being capitalised on.

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It looks like everybody is turning into women these days, a new take on regeneration promoted by the New Series and taken up by Big Finish. The Twelve: The Doctor declares The Twelve as one of the most dangerous villains in the universe but then he usually says that about all his long-term foes so I’m not sure it’s worth just nodding and smiling at him and perhaps taking them at face value. Just two people learning about each other. It’s the best scene for Bliss yet, not over stressed or melodramatic. There’s a nice conversation between Bliss and Ogron Doctor (couldn’t they have thought up a better name for him than that?) about faith and we learn that she is an atheist. I like the idea that because of both the Time War and the paradox that fuelled the original story, the Doctor’s recollection of Day of the Daleks is hazy.īless Bliss: Bliss doesn’t expect judgemental behaviour from the Doctor. Half the fun of this story is to see if he is right or not. Does the universe usually work in his favour that way? Not on your life.

Is somebody capable of this much change? It’s possible. McGann is much gentler a performer than Pertwee so he plays the suspicion less obviously, but there is an element of once bitten, twice shy to the Doctor here that I rather enjoyed exploring. Physician, Heal Thyself: Planet of the Ogrons puts the Doctor in the same situation as the third Doctor in The Curse of Peladon, meeting up with an old foe but in a apparently kinder new guise. There is a mystery to solve involving the Doctor’s TARDIS and its unusual occupant – and answers will be found on the Planet of the Ogrons. But unlike her predecessors, the Twelve has a handle on her previous selves’ unruly minds. What’s it About: Avoiding the Time War, the Doctor and Bliss are found by an old acquaintance: the latest incarnation of a criminal mastermind the Doctor knows of old.