Doctor Who: Season Eight Recap

Season 8 is fantastic. As a refresh of the mistakes made in Season 7, not that Season 7 was one long mistake, but it had some missteps and far too much padding, and the style, characters, and ideas weren't altogether there yet, and Season 8 there is a clear plan.

From start to finish this season really is rather good. It features the first season long arc ever attempted in Who, something of a staple in today's Who. The introduction and development of The Master is Season 8's arc. The character is created at the beginning, appears in every story of the Season, each with a new plan and scheme...and ends the season placed under arrest by UNIT.

Everything works great in this season, and I feel that the experimental, influential, and innovative electronic music of the Season-8-on-Pertwee Era up to the Hinchcliffe-Tom Baker-Era is the best music the classic series ever had. The 60s often sounded more like stock music with the occasional good surprise...and the late seventies trhough the 80s was awful.

Season 8, much like Season 7 was a new beginning. Where as Season 7 set up the basic elements of the Pertwee Era, season 8 modifies and perfects those ideas to create the most conistent and stable era of any Doctor. Jon Pertwee - Season 8 to the end of Season 10 is really the years of the true UNIT Family.

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