The Aztecs by John Lucarroti
The Aztecs is the 6th Story of Doctor Who Ever. To fans it is considered the 2nd Best Story in the first ever season, second only to the original dalek story.
But I am not going to give the fan's opinion. In my opinion The Aztecs is not the great story everyone says it to be. According to many The Aztecs is good historical humour, The 2nd Season's the Romans certainly does have some humour to it but the Aztecs seems to lack this. It does have some good humour when the Doctor accidentally gets engaged to be married. The Whole Story is basically about not changing history, which is explored in good detail. Tholoxi, the high priest of sacrifice, who is the main enemy in the story tends to just sit back and see his warriors to do his dirty work for him, one of which being Ixta, who really only wants to kill Ian after Ian knocks him out just with his thumb. John Lucarroti previously brought us Marco Polo, another historical story considered to be good.
Before going into scoring here is the results of the very best of the first five decades of season one. If the story manged to get into the top 50, it is Brilliant, 50-100, great, 100-150, good, 150-200, okay and 200-241 bad.
DWM's the very best of the first five decades: Season 1
1. The Daleks: Brilliant
2. The Aztecs: Great
3. An Unearthly Child: Great
4. Marco Polo: Great
5. The Reign of Terror: Okay
6. Edge of Destruction: Okay
7. The Keys of Marinus: Okay
8. The Senseorites: Bad
My View of Season 1
1. The Keys of Marinus
2. The Daleks
3. The Senseorites
4. The Edge of Destruction
5. The Aztecs
6. An Unearthly Child
Doctor
William Hartnell is plays the Doctor very well here, maybe his best performance as the Doctor
Doctor Rating: 10/10
Companions
Generally good performance from the rest of the cast
Barbara Wright: 10/10
Ian Chesterton: 9/10
Susan Foreman: 7/10
Overall Companion Rating: 26/30
Story
The Story itself is not that great.
Story Rating: 6/10
Enemy Rating
Tholoxi is pretty lame as is Ixta
Tholoxi: 5/10
Ixta: 5/10
Total Enemy Rating: 10/20
Rest of the Cast's performance
The Rest of Cast are good at their job.
Autloc: 6/10
Cameca: 8/10
Tonila: 5/10
Total Rest of Cast Performance: 19/30
Other Story notes
Humour: 6/10
Seriousness: 10/10
Total Other Story Notes: 16/20
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