And now time to get to the root of the problem!
Seeds of Doom marked the season finale of Series 13 of Doctor Who. After a whole season of great monsters, the biggest one yet emerges. Two seed pods are discovered in the Antarctic and turn out to be Krynoids, that are able to pollinate inside a human host, consume and transmute the body, and turn into a giantKrynoid. As a child, the body transformation was frightening and was forever burned into my memory.
But the more memorable feature of the story is the piece's arch villain Harrison Chase. In the vein of a classic James Bond villain in a neat 3 piece suit, black leather gloves, a large mansion and henchmen, Chase would play his giant organ in his "green" cathedral to his beloved plants. The thing that struck me most was that he was obviously gay, while they never said so in the story. His demise at the end of the story is still one of the most memorable in Doctor Who history.
After season 12 treated us to a cavalcade of returning villains and monsters, season 13 delighted us to a whole slew of stories with new monsters and threats both home grown and extra terrestrial. This truly was a golden age of Doctor Who and one of my most beloved era's of the show. But things would soon be changing...
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