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Post by Cyggy on Mar 4, 2022 0:30:27 GMT
Please rate and discuss this story here.....
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Post by Cyggy on Mar 11, 2022 14:37:35 GMT
I liked the idea of a swamp planet, which I think comes over rather well. Liked also the 'King Kong' homage of them sacrificing Romana to their God. The execution of this story on telly might not have been the greatest, but I don't think it's quite the disaster that some seem to think?
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Post by GC on Jul 2, 2022 22:49:03 GMT
Very underrated story. I'm rather fond of this one. I thought the Kroll 'giant squid' special effects in it were really good.
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Post by GC on Jul 2, 2022 22:49:19 GMT
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Post by GC on Jul 2, 2022 23:03:51 GMT
I liked the idea of a swamp planet, which I think comes over rather well. Liked also the 'King Kong' homage of them sacrificing Romana to their God. The execution of this story on telly might not have been the greatest, but I don't think it's quite the disaster that some seem to think? Perhaps it's just me but I always thought it looked more like Howard Stableford from Tomorrow's World than Tom on that cover...
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Post by Future-Diver on Jul 3, 2022 5:58:38 GMT
"Kroll couldn't tell the difference between you and me and half an acre of dandelion and burdock"
While I consider it one of the weaker stories from The Key To Time Season (it's certainly not the best thing Robert Holmes ever knocked out) there's still a lot to like about The Power Of Kroll (chiefly Tom and Mary, but also John Leeson, Philip Madoc and John Abineri) and anything featuring a giant squid always gets my vote. Yet my favourite bit occurs in Episode 1 when the Doctor cuts some reed from the marsh, turns it into a makeshift flute and starts playing a lovely JS Bach tune ('Badinere in B minor, from Orchestral Suite No 2'). If the Doctor has to be musical, this is a far cooler way than playing the bloody guitar on top of a tank...
7/10
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Post by Servo on Jul 3, 2022 11:50:45 GMT
Sub standard Holmes.
The Swampies jumping around every five minutes chanting ‘Kroll” is very amusing, but it’s all a bit run of the mill.
Kroll himself looks quite impressive, but the whole thing is let down by that awful split screen.
Also not seeing Phillip Madoc playing the villain is pretty jarring.
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Post by Cyggy on Jul 8, 2022 9:41:38 GMT
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Post by GC on Jul 18, 2022 19:19:32 GMT
Watch out, watch out, there's a Tusken Raider about...
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Post by martink on Jul 18, 2022 20:41:57 GMT
Not a lot of,love for this one. I’ve always been fond ofir.
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Post by iank on Aug 25, 2022 23:34:45 GMT
Another one that gets panned for no reason I can see. Great fun from a season that doesn't have one story even below average.
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Post by GC on Sept 6, 2023 14:01:16 GMT
Had no idea the Kroll model was as big as that.
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Post by GC on Sept 6, 2023 21:16:24 GMT
I remember coming home just in time to see this from my Great Gran's after me and Dad had dumped off her Christmas pressies. I'd forgotten all about that grotesque Father Christmas' head globe thing though. Probably blotted it out from my mind lol.
Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll (Continuity Announcements 1978 - 79) - BBC 1
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Post by dsjr on Feb 15, 2024 11:21:29 GMT
Please rate and discuss this story here.....I haven't watched the extras yet, but it's a bit of a sloshy romp isn't it? The effects look incredibly dated now (horizontal split-screen is terrible now) and the appearance of at least two old hand actors to the show (noticeable as I'm watching so many in sequence) took the edge off - Philip Madoc hardly seemed to do anything in this and looked rather out of place in this support role I thought.
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Post by profh0011 on Feb 15, 2024 16:34:15 GMT
It just popped up in my memory that, somehow-- I walked in on this halfway in the first time. Seriously, WTF? Not a favorite at that point, clearly made more sense the 2nd time around. By the time I lost count of how MANY times I'd seen it, I no longer "minded" it. It simply wasn't my favorite that season, but, there were SO MANY stories on the show I actually DIDN'T like, so "Kroll" became not a problem at all. Just 4 episodes (or one movie-edit) to get through before the big finale.
What blew my mind, many years later, was reading-- I don't know who said this-- that when Robert Holmes came back to the show, the first thing he did was a heavily-disguised REMAKE of "Kroll". Totally-bleak, gun-runners, etc. Amazing how that somehow never once crossed my mind. If you're gonna do a remake, definitely, DO IT BETTER! Boy, did he.
It also blew my mind when I realized that the chief swampie had played the fanatical and disturbed Army officer in "The Ambassadors Of Death". Of course, when I first saw "Kroll", I had only ever seen PART of "Ambassadors", and that was quite a few years earlier.
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