DW: The Romans – rewatch

Hey Guys,

welcome to the vacation in acient rome. The Romans is a story with 4 episodes and tells about what happend to them after they crash landed. We visit rome in the year 64 AD. Their is a story ‘Byzantium!’ from the Past Doctor Adventure Book series that is stated to play between The Rescue and The Romans.

A little bored

The little family is make a little vacation for already a month. Vicki gets a little bored. She wants adventure and the Doctor can’t sit still any longer. So he and Vicki are traveling to rome. When Ian and Barbara were attacked by slave traders and sold at an auction.
The story starts slow and gets a little darker when they got sold and the Doctor and Vicki stubble over corpse.

Start of Comic relief

The third episode was the reason for critic. There are a few comical scenes in it that for me doesn’t fit into the story. Nero is chaising Barbara throw the rooms and his slave behind them to fix his appereance. I get the wish to bring something new to Doctor Who and it is what makes the series still so amazing after 50 years. But I don’t like it very much in this story.
In this story is a lot of drama. Ian and Barbara are sold as slaves. The Doctor is finding himself surrounded by attempted murder.

Watch it or not

I love historical stories. The comedy elements are not mine. But they are not that much we had worse episodes like that in the new series of Doctor Who. The Romans is maybe not that good at the story telling but it is good story to get to know Vicki a little better. Also it gives us a chance to the Doctor interact with her. It is like he is replacing Susan (The Dalek Invasion of Earth) with Vicki.