Talk:Doctor Who Adventures/The Manipulator

Review: Grappling Amnesia:
Another slow building episode which brought back several characters including one of my favourites, Raskel! I sure hope he gets more of a part next episode as him and Tetra make for an awesome dynamic. This episode gave several great moments for Tetra and Shalek with the grappling hook scene. There was also a glorious scene in which the Doctor encounters a battlefield.

The mystery has been brilliant with the Manipulator being very sinister (although you did write the Trickster at one point in the episode by mistake which makes me think he is the Trickster from the Sarah Jane Smith Adventures, otherwise I would not have known). By dealing with amnesia it gave the Doctor some nice scenes including it being revealed what has happened previously. I think that the Manipulator may have distorted these events so none of the bad things actually happened which is why the Doctor cannot remember them even when his amnesia is lifted. I suspect that the Manipulator is not being truthful about what happened so the shocks will not be shocking.

With a great pace with more talking and finding out it made for the story to really build up with much of the payout hopefully coming in the next episode. I liked the minor fourth wall breaking with the "plot not being important right now" bit being a particular highlight and a reference to the amount of times they have been thrown into cells is great to see and is funny that that I realize how true it is.

In conclusion, this story is a fantastic first part with so much being built up in which looks to be an epic finale with fantastic pacing, characters, scenes and indeed villains. This is looking to climbing high up the DWA ladder of best episodes.

Turtlecake365 (talk) 23:32, November 12, 2015 (UTC)