Doctor Who And The Pirates Or The Lass That Lost A Sailor

Doctor Who and The Pirates or The Lass That Lost a Sailor By Jacqueline Raynor

Beautifully Profound, excitedly experimental, and downright exquisite, Doctor Who and The Pirates is one of those stories which remind you why you enjoy Doctor Who in the first place. It’s a sentimental piece about Evelyn’s reaction to her time In the TARDIS, and her trying to comfort an emotionally distraught student. 

The scenes on a pirate ship are the backstory to all of this, which seem almost an afterthought to make this story two hours. But what an afterthought, as The Doctor Evelyn and Sally get so much character work in this story, and the story itself is the most fun you will have with a depressive existential crisis about the nature of death and mourning. Plus it’s a musical. 

Entitled to Melodrama: what a broken record I am, Six is awesome. How do you reverse two seasons of terrible character work? With Marian Conspiracy, Lanyon Moor, Bloodtide, Project: Twilight, Sandman and Jubilee, that’s how. Least of all this. 

He is the very model of a gallifreyan buccaneer, after all. 

Evil Evelyn, Pirate Queen: What an Evelyn Story. The character work cannot be defined here in a few sentences, it’s so exquisite. Evelyn is so full of heart and love, and Sixes best mate. And in this episode, he’s her first mate.

All Hail Evil Evelyn, Pirate Queen! 

The Monsters: Red Jasper is more heinous than any Dalek. Nothing to mention really, other than how good he is at making a stereotype exquisite. I particularly like how it’s Evelyn Who defeats him, it’s Evelyn’s thoughtfulness and a speech about what Red Jasper really is, that’s what turns the crew against him. It’s far more believable than any technobabble. 

Overall: I ... am the very model of a Gallifreyan buccaneer,

I've information on all things a Gallifreyan holds most dear.

I've linked into the Matrix through its exitronic circuitry,

I understand dimensional and relative chronometry.

I'm very well acquainted too with matters of the Capitol,

I'll give you verse and chapter on panopticonian protocol.

I've been into the Death Zone and I've played the Game of Rassilon,

Rassilon? Assilon? Bassilon? Aha!

with pestilential monsters that I got a lot of hassle from.

With pestilential monsters that he got a lot of hassle from!

With pestilential monsters that he got a lot of hassle from!

With pestilential monsters that he got a lot of hassle-assle from… 10/10