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Don't Do the Crime (But Still Do the Time)

Aug 22 2017
Don't Do the Crime (But Still Do the Time)

So, that concern about padding and spinning in place during the middle of a six-parter? Yeah, that totally came true today. It was done reasonably well, but still. The middle part of Frontier in Space pretty much turns into a prison drama. But at least the Master shows up to liven things up a bit.

Let's talk about that.

Frontier in Space - Episodes 3 & 4

(TARDIS Data Core recap)

Episode two had the Doctor and Jo locked up in the spaceship, brought back to Earth, locked up in a government prison, sprung from that prison by the Draconians, recaptured and placed back into the same cell, and then at the end sprung by a group of Ogrons masquerading as Draconians using the fear-ray. That's at least one too many prison breaks for a single twenty four minute episode.

But the writers aren't finished, oh no. In episode three the Doctor and Jo are promptly recaptured again and placed back in their cell. Then the Doctor is shipped off to a penal colony on the moon while Jo stays behind. At the lunar jail the Doctor quickly falls in with some political prisoners and joins in on an escape attempt. Meanwhile back on Earth, Jo is handed over to the Master who is posing as an official from some independent Earth colony. He has falsified police records to show that Jo and the Doctor are both repeat offenders on Sirius IV, and so she is handed over to his custody. Back on the moon, the escape attempt goes badly and the Doctor is left about to die in an airlock with its atmosphere being vented away.

Luckily for the Doctor, the Master shows up just then and rescues him from certain death. The Master then convinces the prison warden to release the Doctor into the Master's custody, and so the Doctor and Jo find themselves imprisoned once again - this time in the Master's stolen prison ship. Wouldn't you know it, the Doctor manages to escape the cell. I've lost count of how many prison escapes that is in the last three episodes, but it is at least two too many.

Before the Doctor can rescue Jo and make good their escape, the ship is captured by Draconians who once again imprison not only Jo and the Doctor, but the Master as well. 

So, lots of spinning plates in this story and not much in the way of forward motion. One presumes that things will pick up in the final two episodes tomorrow. At least, I hope so.

STATS:

Doctor(s): Third
Companion(s): Jo Grant
Episode(s): Frontier in Space - Episodes 3 & 4
Steps Walked: 6,911 today, 1,171,689 total
Distance Walked: 3.52 miles today, 577.81 miles total
Weight: 263.04 lbs (five day moving average), net change -44.26 lbs


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