From: doctor@nl2k.ca 
  
 In article <40d47d13_1@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com>, 
 Solar Penguin  wrote: 
 > 
 >"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! 
 > 
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