Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site uwvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hao!seismo!uwvax!myers From: myers@uwvax.ARPA Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho Subject: Re: Keeper of Traken & Logopolis Message-ID: <380@uwvax.ARPA> Date: Sat, 11-Aug-84 20:36:38 EDT Article-I.D.: uwvax.380 Posted: Sat Aug 11 20:36:38 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 13-Aug-84 00:46:38 EDT References: <385@ih1ap.UUCP> Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 32 I too was completely unimpressed with Logopolis the first time I saw it. It was terribly confusing, so I figured there must have been thousands of logical inconsistencies. However, I recently had the chance to see it again; I was favourably impressed this time because I caught alot of the stuff that I had simply missed before. (1) The Doctor KNEW who the Watcher was (but no one else did). As somebody else has pointed out in this newsgroup, difficult regenerations require one of these helpers. They seem to be sent out by the powers that be on Gallifry. (2) As I recall, the Doctor could not dispense with the Master because he needed his help to get things going at the Talos Project. The "Material Universe Maintenance" program seems to have been successfully beamed somewhere, but the Master had apparently manipulated the program so that he could halt it. Hence the power play by the Master near the end which the Doctor foiled by stopping the Master from being able to send the 'undo' command. (3) The episode certainly wasn't extremely predictable! In that respect it was infinitely preferable to episodes like the "Black Orchid", whose only saving graces were the costumes and the choreography in the party scenes. May your TARDIS always make those tricky short hops. -- Jeff Myers ARPA: myers@uwisc.ARPA uucp: ..{seismo, ihnp4}!uwisc!myers