DOCTOR WHO:
The Hunting Season
Written by:
James Kettle
Iain Meadows
Directed by:
Barnaby Edwards
The 9DAs were kinda Mixed, as criticz maraud through the good and bad. It’s a frightful business, and as The Doctor battles the Fleshkin, Mjax finds new reason to love rtd era esque who again. Can s/he convince the internet to unite to love 9DAs 3.1?
The Hunting Season is a terrible title. Why is "the" there? Perhaps i missed a critical plotpoint where it gets roll credits'd but If it did I wasn't cognizant of it. Despite the goofy title and frankly goofy alien of the week. Hunting Season is Leftwing RTD pro Prole writing at its best. If you hate the Gen Z/Millennial Vibe of Okay Boomer you will equally hate the vibe of 9 dealing with humans of the *coughhack1900?*
Era being their historically accurate if a bit hamfisted selves.
Which is to say if that sounds amazing. It is. It really really is. What should definitely be a typical romp quickly unfolds into a good (if also typical) subversion. All actors in this set are on fire if again a bit hammy. Perhaps the most hammy of which being The Daughter who really loves death and gore. Shes not like other girls yknow.
My only real complaints are that the story never Really alludes to the Doc thinking the second subversion is plausible til the twist is pulled. Afterwhich all the Foreshadowing falls into place as any good twist should.
Eccleston on Audio is definitely different but not in a way that is as bad as i'd initially feared. His (The Ninth Doctor's) darkness is maintained he just REALLY doesn't wanna talk about it right now.
Go Listen to It / 10
B++ maybe an A
Still Drinking From a Fanta Stick,
~Gemjax
