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From: myers@uwvax.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho
Subject: Re: Keeper of Traken & Logopolis
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Date: Sat, 11-Aug-84 20:36:38 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 11 20:36:38 1984
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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
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