Argghhhh, this is very hard to follow the episode. It's fricking full of plot holes and things that won't just make any absolute sense.
4 Reviews
Okay finale
wetmars5 March 2020
Wait, this is the finale??
ianweech24 January 2021
This doesn't feel like a finale! This feels like a confusing filler episode, not a finale!
I thought the first part was good, but it crumbles to bits in part 2 and part 3.
This is a very disappointing finale to a mediocre season.
The only good episodes were Kinda, The Visitation, Black Orchid, and Earthshock.
Hopefully next season is better.
It's on a bit of a downer.
Sleepin_Dragon16 January 2020
The Master needs to cannibalise The Doctor's TARDIS to reach the alien consciousness on the planet, The Xeraphin.
After a decent, but wonky opening few episodes, Time-Flight does sadly take a bit of a nose dive, after The Master's elaborate, but nonsensical plan he seems to have gone to the most extravagant and outrageous plan to lure The Doctor to the planet, it's hard to swallow.
Nigel Stock is wasted, he gets some really flat lines, a character actor with the ability to be boisterous and eccentric, there is none of that.
All I can think of, are British Airways staff wandering around a cheap set. They had clearly run out of funds, it does look like a set made of polystyrene. The Xeraphin look decent though. I will still compliment it for being imaginative.
The production itself is dull, at times you see the cast all in a straight line, giving it the appearance of being a school play.
The Doctor spends the whole episode being confused and looking befuddled, Anthony Ainley is good fun though, relishing his villainous part with true gusto.
It's poor. 4/10
After a decent, but wonky opening few episodes, Time-Flight does sadly take a bit of a nose dive, after The Master's elaborate, but nonsensical plan he seems to have gone to the most extravagant and outrageous plan to lure The Doctor to the planet, it's hard to swallow.
Nigel Stock is wasted, he gets some really flat lines, a character actor with the ability to be boisterous and eccentric, there is none of that.
All I can think of, are British Airways staff wandering around a cheap set. They had clearly run out of funds, it does look like a set made of polystyrene. The Xeraphin look decent though. I will still compliment it for being imaginative.
The production itself is dull, at times you see the cast all in a straight line, giving it the appearance of being a school play.
The Doctor spends the whole episode being confused and looking befuddled, Anthony Ainley is good fun though, relishing his villainous part with true gusto.
It's poor. 4/10
Awful. It's actually starting to become painful.
poolandrews28 February 2008
Warning: Spoilers
Doctor Who: Time-Flight: Part Three starts as the Master (Anthony Ainley) reveals himself to the Doctor (Peter Davison). The Master takes components from the Doctor's TARDIS that he needs for his own & in order to capture the conscience of an entire race of aliens known as the Xeraphin which has been transfered to a single organism. The Master intends to use the Xeraphin as a dynamorphic generator in his own TARDIS & harness their immense power to use for his own evil ends. The Master's interference has split the Xeraphin conscience into two distinct sides, good & evil. With the Doctor, Nyssa (Sarah Sutton) & Tegan (Janet Fielding) trapped inside the Xeraphin's sarcophagus it seems like the Master as won...
Episode 25 from season 19 this Doctor Who adventure originally aired here in the UK during March 1982, directed by Ron Jones Time-Flight is an awful mess of a story. The script by Peter Grimwade is very hard to follow & is full of plot holes & things which just don't make any sense. For a start why did the Master disguise himself as Khalid? There was no need whatsoever to do it. I mean he even stays in character with that stupid voice when there's no-one else in the room with him at the same time! Then there's the almost incomprehensible plot which tries to explain itself a little better during this episode with some exposition but a lot of major plot points are give about one line of dialogue & then quickly forgotten about. As a whole Time-Flight is a confusing mess that doesn't work & doesn't make any logical sense with an extremely convoluted & contrived plot, horrible scientific explanations that try to bombard the viewer with scientific terminology that is impossible for any normal person to follow much less understand. Time-Flight just isn't much fun & the awful cliffhanger ending sees the Doctor proclaim 'the Master has defeated me', yeah right I wonder if he has...
The production on Time-Flight is a disaster too, from awful monsters like the sock puppet snake to walking blocks of cement to ancient aliens that dress in tight lycra! The acting has been really poor as well, everyone just sucks even the regulars who are usually pretty good. Maybe after they had read the script their hearts weren't in it or simply didn't understand the story itself & what was meant to be going on. It was found during editing that Part Three ran some seven minutes short & director Grimwade scripted several other scenes to extend the episode which is one reason why this episode drags badly.
Time-Flight: Part Three is another mess in a really bad story, I would have probably preferred it if Grimwade hadn't scripted another seven pointless minutes of padding as well that makes the episode feel like an eternity.
Episode 25 from season 19 this Doctor Who adventure originally aired here in the UK during March 1982, directed by Ron Jones Time-Flight is an awful mess of a story. The script by Peter Grimwade is very hard to follow & is full of plot holes & things which just don't make any sense. For a start why did the Master disguise himself as Khalid? There was no need whatsoever to do it. I mean he even stays in character with that stupid voice when there's no-one else in the room with him at the same time! Then there's the almost incomprehensible plot which tries to explain itself a little better during this episode with some exposition but a lot of major plot points are give about one line of dialogue & then quickly forgotten about. As a whole Time-Flight is a confusing mess that doesn't work & doesn't make any logical sense with an extremely convoluted & contrived plot, horrible scientific explanations that try to bombard the viewer with scientific terminology that is impossible for any normal person to follow much less understand. Time-Flight just isn't much fun & the awful cliffhanger ending sees the Doctor proclaim 'the Master has defeated me', yeah right I wonder if he has...
The production on Time-Flight is a disaster too, from awful monsters like the sock puppet snake to walking blocks of cement to ancient aliens that dress in tight lycra! The acting has been really poor as well, everyone just sucks even the regulars who are usually pretty good. Maybe after they had read the script their hearts weren't in it or simply didn't understand the story itself & what was meant to be going on. It was found during editing that Part Three ran some seven minutes short & director Grimwade scripted several other scenes to extend the episode which is one reason why this episode drags badly.
Time-Flight: Part Three is another mess in a really bad story, I would have probably preferred it if Grimwade hadn't scripted another seven pointless minutes of padding as well that makes the episode feel like an eternity.
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