Dr. Who - 42

By Bonehead Brooks

Riley, the Doctor and Martha have 42 minutes to find out what force is taking over the crew of Riley’s spaceship.

This was one of the better episodes.

Dr. Who and Martha ended up on a ship in which the engine was failing and they were falling into a sun. They couldn’t get back on the Tardis because the temperature of the room that it was in was so high that they barely were able to get out of that room before the door started to seal. It’s an age old plot. The ship falls into the sun and you have to get the ship started before it eventually burns up. The Doctor discovered that the sun was alive and because the crew had been taking hydrogen from the sun to uses as fuel for the ship’s engine, the sun began to retaliate by taking over the life force of some of the crew members. That’s a bit of a stretch but it’s what made the episode entertaining.

The ship had these doors between the location of the crew and the control room, and the only way to get through the doors was to answer a lot of riddles correctly. The time element and the fact that they didn’t know why the ships engines were not working plus the fact that you had to know all of these crazy answers and a couple of the ship’s crew had been taken over by these sun particles and turn in to killers. That was a little bit of a stretch. But that campiness with Dr. Who, it worked out perfectly.

I thought this was a well written episode and when you look at it, it had several twists that kept you interested and the uncertainty about whether or not they were going to make it in time. When you put all of this together it made a great episode. I highly recommend it for any one who wants to watch it.