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Doctor Who - The Sontaran Strategem / Doctor Who - The Poison Sky
episode 4.4, 4.5
UK 2008
produced by
Susie Liggat, Phil Collinson (executive), Russell T.Davies (executive), Julie Gardner (executive) for BBC Wales/BBC
directed by Douglas Mackinnon
starring David Tennant, Catherine Tate, Freema Agyeman, Bernard Cribbins, Jacqueline King, Ryan Sampson, Christopher Ryan, Clive Standen, Dan Starkey, Rupert Holliday-Evans, Eleanor Matsuura, Clive Standen, Wesley Theobald, Christian Cooke, Radoslaw Kaim, Meryl Fernandes, Leeshon Alexander, Biddy Hodson, Kirsty Wark, Lachele Carl
written by Helen Raynor, Sontarans created by Robert Holmes, music by Murray Gold
tv-series
Doctor Who, Doctor Who (David Tennant), Doctor Who (new series), Sontarans, Donna Noble, Martha Jones
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Since having parted ways with Doctor Who (David Tennant) at the end of
season 3 of the series, Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman) has joined forces
with UNIT, thew department of the UNO dealing with ... well, with
anything sci-fi. Now she summons the Doctor back to earth, where a certain
gadget that makes cars emmission-free, ATMOS, starts to kill people. While
UNIT soon has the ATMOS-factory under control (or so they think), the
Doctor pays a visit to ATMOS-inventor, boy genius Luke Rattigan (Ryan
Sampson) - and soon realizes that he actually serves a higher power, the
Sontarans, an alien race of warriors who like nothing better than to
conquer. However, it's not like the Sontarans to kill people using gas,
they prefer the open battle. And now they seem to want to gas planet
earth? It takes the Doctor and his companions Martha and Donna
(Catherine Tate) quite a while to figure out that the Sontarans actually
want to use earth as their breeding ground, to have more soldiers in the
Sontaran-Rutan war that seems to go on simply forever - but while the
Doctor tries everything in his power to save the world, where the Sontaran
gas is already spreading, the enemy is actually within, because the Martha
with him is actually an evil clone of the real Martha. Ultimately though,
the Doctor manages to use even her (and her Sontaran knowledge) to his and
the earth's advantage as he burns up the gas in the atmosphere, then plans
to blow up the Sontaran battleship looming over earth from within, even if
it costs his own life - when boy genius Rattigan, who has since seen the
error of his ways, replaces the Doctor to die a hero's death and be
redeemed. Mediocre science fiction adventure that once again
makes use of the aliens use fashionable gadgets against humankind-formula
that has been featured a few times too often in the new series of Doctor
Who without ever exploiting its inherent satirical possibilities.
In all, the episode isn't all bad, but it's too fast-paced and action
oriented to let its story really develop to the fullest, and features a
few too many tearjerking elements and soap opera-style subplots (about
Martha, about Donna's family) to really function as a pure actioner. There
were much worse episodes of the series though.
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