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06 Jun, 2007
One of the best stories ever
I became a fan in 1988 at just 5 years of age watching perhaps some of the best stories the series had ever offered in the McCoy years.
This story is about as important a DVD you could own as it was the last of the original series and also one of the best stories. By now McCoy and Aldred are perfect in their roles and their chemistry is obvious, with this story being the last in the arc of what could be called the ACE trilogy where this charcter was developed and put through more than any other companion in the series history.
Survival has so many layers and is so beautifully written it is hard to imagine this was for children but never the less back in 89 after wogan i sat on the couch eagerly awaiting this story, and despite being terrified it has stayed with me all these years and i get a tremendous sense of nostalgia watching this and other 7th doctor classics.
Despite what others have said on here, this story is as sophisticated as many of the episodes from the new series despite the fact that they are also fantastic. Survival continues the direction the series had been going in under the wonderful Andrew Cartmel. The direction is superb as is the music. The guitar riffs sound like something from pink floyds momentary lapse of reason album and the pink sky of the cheetah planet is wonderfully realised and alien. The contemporary earth setting with the tardis landing in the drive way of a typical suburban home is very effective and the scene where ace is running from the creature in the park is about as frightening as you can get, a simply amazing image.
Anthony Ainley gives his best performance as the Master, with all the ham and pantomime delivery of other stories all but a distant memory and one cant help but imagine what might have been in 1990 had this not been the last story.
The final speech between the doctor and Ace is truely moving and dare i say perfect, and this story thus provides a fitting coda to the wonderful original series of doctor who.
It is amazing that in its dying momments, Doctor Who could still be as imaginative, thought provoking, scary, beautiful and original as it had ever been during the many wonderful years of great stories and great doctors.
This story seems to have had somewhat of an influence on the new series, and is definately the closest of the old series stories to the series we have now. With the demons that the doctor had had throughout the last few stories of season 26 buried,the latest series has picked up the baton and given us the more optimistic doctors we now see on Tv and ofcourse the new series has made me more of a fan than ever, but depite the brilliance of new dr who, let's not forget where it all started (or ended).
Sylvester McCoy is one of the better doctors and deserves re-appraisal by many especially as his stories are more relevant now than ever