Doctor Who
Les aventures du Docteur, un extraterrestre, un Seigneur du Temps originaire de la planète Gallifrey, qui voyage à bord d'un TARDIS (Temps À Relativité Dimensionnelle Inter-Spatiale), une machine pouvant voyager dans l'espace et dans le temps. Le TARDIS a l'apparence d'une cabine de police (construction typiquement ...
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| Terminée | Anglaise, GB | 25 minutes |
| Science-Fiction, Fantastique, Historique, Action, Adventure, Action & Adventure, Drame, Science-Fiction & Fantastique | BBC One, Youtube, BBC, Global, ABC (AU) | 1963 |
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Shada (2)
Shada (2)
The Doctor and Romana visit Chronotis, a retired Time Lord living in Cambridge, who admits that he's lost a book dating back to the time of Rassilon and needs their help to find it. In fact he's accidentally lent it out to graduate student Chris Parsons, who soon realises that this is an extraordinary text indeed. The book is also sought by the evil scientist Skagra, who has developed a sphere capable of drawing its victims' minds out of their bodies. Skagra needs the book to reach the Time Lord prison Shada, which even the Time Lords have forgotten. Long ago they imprisoned the criminal Salyavin there, as punishment for using his powers to transfer his mind into other people's bodies. Chronotis is eventually forced to admit that he himself is Salyavin; he escaped long ago and used his powers to cause the Time Lords to forget about his prison. However, he's now repented of his crimes and wishes to live a quiet, peaceful life. Skagra drains Chronotis's mind and thus acquires the ability to transfer his own mind into other bodies; with the aid of the sphere and his crystalline servants, the Krargs, he will spread his own mind throughout the Universe and become immortal. However, when the Doctor pretends to be stupid, the sphere fails to drain his mind completely. He thus survives, and since there's a copy of his mind inside the sphere, he is able to use the resonance to turn Skagra's possessed slaves against him. Skagra is imprisoned by his own Ship, and Chronotis returns to Earth to resume his peaceful retirement.
Diffusion originale : 26 janvier 1980
Diffusion française :
26 janvier 1980
Réalisat.eur.rice.s :
Pennant Roberts
Scénariste.s :
Douglas Adams
Guest.s :
Christopher Neame
,
Daniel Hill
,
David Brierley
,
David Strong
,
Derek Suthern
,
Gerald Campion
,
Harry Fielder
,
James Coombes
,
James Muir
,
John Hallett
,
Lionel Sansby
,
Reg Woods
,
Shirley Dixon
,
Victoria Burgoyne
Galax
L’épisode continue d’être délicieusement absurde, avec cette pointe d’humour de Douglas Adam qui culmine lorsque Tom Baker et Lalla Ward disent en coeur “BBC” ! Tout le monde n’est pas fan de l’écriture du bonhomme sur Doctor Who, mais j’apprécie vraiment ce ton en ce qui me concerne.
Tous les dialogues sont assez savoureux et funs, et donnent du rythme et du peps à une histoire qui autrement se passe quand même juste sur Terre entre un laboratoire et une université. Mais le charme des lieux couplés aux idées qui fourmillent suffisent à tenir l’épisode pour le moment. Ma préférée : le professeur Chronotis qui, dans son dernier souffle, fait battre ses coeurs en “morse gallifreyien” pour laisser un message à Romana. Le méchant a une tête de sacré méchant et est assez charismatique, le teasing d’un Time Lord échappé de prison (sans doute lui, du coup ?) nous laisse intrigué.