From: solar.penguin@tiscali.co.No.Spam.Please.uk 
  
 "Steve" wrote... 
 > 
 > Part 1 - quite good, intriguing 
 > Part 2 - quite good 
 > Part 3 - not so good 
 > Part 4 - utterly awful with some appalling dialogue 
 > Part 5 - so-so 
 > Part 6 - utterly awful 
 > 
  
 **nirg**  Yeah, part 6 was crap, wasn't it?  The Doctor saves the world by 
 using his unexplained ability to reprogram a baby Shalka's nervous system by 
 swallowing it!?! 
  
 How did he gain that ability?  How many live baby aliens did he have to 
 swallow to practise it?  (Maybe that's why the fourth Doctor ate all those 
 jelly babies!)  Or is it a natural talent?  And if so, how did he learn that 
 he's gifted with it?  Did he accidentally swallow an alien baby one day, 
 spat it out, and found that its nervous system had been reprogrammed? 
  
 And the really, *really* annoying thing is that there was a much better 
 ending just waiting to happen.  Throughout the story, we're told that the 
 Shalka use sonic technology, based on sound waves.  So, why didn't the 
 Doctor use his sonic screwdriver to jam the signals?  For once a sonic 
 screwdriver would actually make sense in story terms, instead of just being 
 a clumsy deus ex machina.  So they ignored it, and gave us a different 
 clumsy deus ex machina instead! 
  
 --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 
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