Day 649: The Trial of a Time Lord Part 10 - Terror of the Vervoids Part 2

One of the interesting things about this story is its genre. It's a simple mystery story, where the villain has not yet been revealed, so we follow the Doctor and Mel as they try to find the culprit behind the series of murders that have been ocurring on this spaceship. And in a time when I occasionaly yearn for Doctor Who to try new things and new story ideas, I'm going to be a bit hypocritical and say that this isn't that bad. It's written well, by Pip and Jane Baker, who make a nice pacy adventure that's quite enjoyable, if a little average.

But it's also a return to the heart of storytelling in Doctor Who. The series is allowed to work in any genre that it likes, but in the past few stories, it feels like it's just been action-adventure science fiction stories. So it's nice to have a change, and to see something different being done by the series, so as to remind the audience that Doctor Who can do a lot of things, not just generic science fiction stories.