The Claws of Axos - Part Four
The Doctor and Jo escape from the Axon's spaceship. The Master claims to have done his part and tries to leave but the Brigadier won't let him go.
The Doctor explains their work isn't done yet. The Axons are still a threat to the world. The Doctor and the Master work together to get the TARDIS operational. The Doctor explains that the Time Lords blocked his memory so that he is unable to fix the TARDIS and leave Earth. The Master agrees to help him.
The Doctor tricks the Master into thinking that he wants to escape Earth but when the TARDIS rematerializes it is inside the Axon spaceship. The Doctor cuts a deal with the Axons. The Master figures out that the Doctor is trying to double cross the aliens and warns the Axons.
The Master makes his way into his TARDIS while the Axons attack the Doctor while he is in the process of pulling the TARDIS and the Axons, who are now connected to it, into a time loop. The Doctor tries to escape from the time loop by himself. The Axons overwhelm him but he just barely manages to pull the switch. The TARDIS departs the time loop, leaving the Axons there.
The TARDIS rematerializes at the NUTON Power Complex. The whole place blows up but the Doctor gets the TARDIS out of there just in time. The Doctor meets up with the Brigadier, Jo, and the others. He explains that he tried to leave Earth but the TARDIS was pulled back to Earth.
Thoughts
The crew on the commentary track is the same as in the other three episodes of The Claws of Axos. I think they go a little overboard with their comparisons of Doctor Who to Star Trek. I love Doctor Who but Who < Trek.
I think producer Barry Letts was a little too in love with the special effects. They lean on them a little too strongly in this story.
How is it that the Doctor can give the Axons the knowledge to travel through time in the previous episode but in this episode reveal that he can't fix the TARDIS? It feels like there is an inconsistency there.
The best scenes were the ones with the Master, both with and without the Doctor. There are plenty of little scenes that I didn't bother to describe. They could have been consequential but they weren't/
This was an okay story. It did make me laugh a few times when the special effects were just ridiculously silly. I was really hoping that the ending would provide some sort of a teaser for the next story when the Doctor and Jo finally leave Earth for the first time in this season. The Master's exact fate is unknown but he will be back in the next story.
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