Project: Who - The Power of Kroll
The Power of Kroll
Written by Robert Holmes
Directed by Norman Stewart
The Doctor and Romana land on a moon in the Delta Magna system. It's a marsh world, and Romana complains that K9 is trapped in the Tardis. But the pair goes off, looking for the next part.
Romana is kidnapped. The Doctor goes looking for her, but gets captured himself. there are two groups on the moon. those who live on land (and have pink skin) and swamp men who originated there, and have green skin.
The swamp men worship something called the Kroll, their god, and they intend to sacrifice Romana to it. The Doctor liberates a boat and paddles over to the sacrifice area, just as Kroll rises from the water.
He rescues her, followed by 20 minutes of walking around.
Kroll attacks the refinery where the Earth men are, apparently eating many of them.
The Humans sit around debating how to kill the giant squid. the Doctor and Romana get tied up. Again. But easily escape. Again.
Kroll continues eating everything in sight.
The Doctor and Romana paddle away, returning to the Human's refining station. They go to stop the rocket by means of sabotage.
The swampies invade the station and kill the crazy captain. Kroll noms all the Humans and swampies he can.
The Doctor tests a theory and it's correct. Kroll was the fifth segment of the Key to Time. Taking the newly-shrunk piece, he and Romana take off to find the final segment.
* * *
Shaky cam. Really? And no wonder the swampies are all in such good shape, since they keep repeating the same exercise motions over and over again.
They didn't even try to alter the pattern here. Person A kidnapped. Person B goes to free them. Person A goes free. Person B kidnapped. Both kidnapped. Both escape. Rinse and repeat.
Only one more story to go from the only true Romana, and that's a shame. I wish she had stayed around.
Written by Robert Holmes
Directed by Norman Stewart
The Doctor and Romana land on a moon in the Delta Magna system. It's a marsh world, and Romana complains that K9 is trapped in the Tardis. But the pair goes off, looking for the next part.
Romana is kidnapped. The Doctor goes looking for her, but gets captured himself. there are two groups on the moon. those who live on land (and have pink skin) and swamp men who originated there, and have green skin.
The swamp men worship something called the Kroll, their god, and they intend to sacrifice Romana to it. The Doctor liberates a boat and paddles over to the sacrifice area, just as Kroll rises from the water.
He rescues her, followed by 20 minutes of walking around.
Kroll attacks the refinery where the Earth men are, apparently eating many of them.
The Humans sit around debating how to kill the giant squid. the Doctor and Romana get tied up. Again. But easily escape. Again.
Kroll continues eating everything in sight.
The Doctor and Romana paddle away, returning to the Human's refining station. They go to stop the rocket by means of sabotage.
The swampies invade the station and kill the crazy captain. Kroll noms all the Humans and swampies he can.
The Doctor tests a theory and it's correct. Kroll was the fifth segment of the Key to Time. Taking the newly-shrunk piece, he and Romana take off to find the final segment.
* * *
Shaky cam. Really? And no wonder the swampies are all in such good shape, since they keep repeating the same exercise motions over and over again.
They didn't even try to alter the pattern here. Person A kidnapped. Person B goes to free them. Person A goes free. Person B kidnapped. Both kidnapped. Both escape. Rinse and repeat.
Only one more story to go from the only true Romana, and that's a shame. I wish she had stayed around.