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The Hunting Ground


Doctor Who The Monthly Adventures 246


Present day Iceland and a body has been found in the snow and the Doctor maybe be the only suspect.


Yrsa, from the police is the stand in companion for this story. Her father, also in the police, was murdered not that long ago. So she has a vested interest in the case.


This doesn’t quite follow the usual pattern of Doctor Who stories. The Doctor and Yrsa following  tracks to a compound, rather that a runaround and a more limited cast of characters.


Its quite a refreshing change from the usual earth settings. With the body, the cold and somewhat bleak backdrop it seems that this was going to be quite a dark serious outing. Yet when the Doctor and Yrsa split up the Doctor meets a clerk with two heads that seem to do little more than bicker at each other, adding an unnecessary comedic element.


We find that there is an alien whose hunting humans and there is more going on that it seems at first.


The middle two episode are just over 20 minutes each making this a shorter 4 parter.


A couple of times the Doctor had the ‘Foresight’ to anticipate what moves the antagonist would make and put things in place to stop them. Not something I’m fond of.


Its a reasonable adventure, though I was never excited by it. It had nice parts but it was neither one thing or another, I feel that it had the potential to be great, but maybe needing to it to be more family friendly compromised its ability to tell the story it set out to be.

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