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Doctor Who: Kinda DVD, from BBC Video / 2 entertain The Doctor Who serial Kinda, written by Christopher Bailey and starring Peter Davison as the Doctor, was originally broadcast by the BBC in February 1982. The first time I saw it was a couple of years later when it aired on PBS here in the States. I was eight years old, and Kinda left me totally confused. Several years later, it was on PBS again, and I taped it on the VCR. Over the years, I watched it several more times. As I got older, and my knowledge of world cultures and spirituality broadened, I came to gradually have a better understanding of Kinda with each subsequent viewing. The course I took in Comparative Religions in college helped. Also, my girlfriend is very well read on religion & spirituality, and I've learned a lot from her. So it was an interesting experience watching Kinda again for the first time in several years, now that it is out on DVD. Kinda is set on Deva Loka, a tropical forest world that could be described as a paradise. An expeditionary force of humans has arrived to determine if the planet is suitable for colonization. The occupants of Deva Loka, the Kinda, appear to be a very primitive people, but the expedition's scientist Doctor Todd is convinced there is much more to the natives than meets the eye. And then three of the six expedition members mysteriously vanish. As the story opens, with the Fifth Doctor and his companions arriving on Deva Loka, tensions are beginning to fray in the expedition Dome. Security officer Hindle, due to the disappearances of half the team, as well as the aggressive attitude of expedition commander Sanders towards him, is slowly becoming unhinged. The Doctor and Adric are taken into custody at the Dome. After Sanders departs to search for the missing members of the team, Hindle snaps, threatening the Doctor, Adric, and Todd at gunpoint. Meanwhile, Tegan has been left behind by a set of mysterious giant wind chimes. Falling into a trance-like dream state, her consciousness is projected into a mysterious black void populated by a trio of sinister-looking pale figures with snake tattoos on their forearms. One of them, a sneering young man, attempts to coerce Tegan into allowing him to take control of her physical form, utilizing a variety of mental tortures. Under this psychic assault, Tegan finally relents. She awakens back on Deva Loka, the snake symbol now on her arm, possessed by the evil Mara. As I learned later, Christopher Bailey invested his scripts for Kinda with a number of Buddhist symbols and concepts. For example, Deva Loka in the Sanskrit language means heaven or paradise. In Hinduism, there are three paths that the human soul can take after death. One of these is a path of light into a heavenly plane of existence known as Deva Loka. Buddhism regards a Deva Loka as the habitat of Devas, or divine beings. Likewise, Mara is Sanskrit for death or evil. Buddhism regards the Mara as an entity of temptation that draws individuals away from spiritual enlightenment. Of course, there is also Judeo-Christian imagery present in Kinda. The Mara's true form is a snake, making it the serpent in paradise. When the Mara possesses Tegan, she takes on the mannerisms of an aggressive seductress. To ensnare Aris, one of the Kinda tribe whose brother is behind held captive in the Dome, Tegan first gets his attention by sitting in a tree and dropping apples on him. And there is an almost sexual connotation to the moment when Tegan and Aris' hands entwine, and the Mara transfers over to his body. One of the primary strengths of Kinda is the high quality of performances by the actors. First of all, Peter Davison turns in one of his best performances as the Doctor. Davison grew up watching Doctor Who in the late 1960s, and has said that he drew inspiration from the Second Doctor, played by Patrick Troughton. Some of the cadence, mannerisms, and personality that Davison invests in his Doctor in Kinda are reminiscent of Troughton's incarnation, and it works very well in this story. At the same time, Davison also gives the Doctor his own individual spin, making it much more than just an imitation of Troughton. Janet Fielding, who plays Tegan, is given a chance to shine in Kinda. Instead of just being the bossy, argumentative "mouth on legs" that many of the writers pigeonholed the character as, here we see a very frightened, bewildered, vulnerable individual suffering at the hands of the Mara in the black void. During the brief period when Tegan is possessed by the Mara, she is a genuinely creepy, unsettling figure. At the end of the serial, when the Mara's true form is revealed, and she realizes that thing was in her head, you can see hints of what might be post-traumatic stress disorder. (I was usually not very keen that Doctor Who producer John-Nathan Turner had a lot of the serials flow from one into another. But it was a good decision on his part to have The Visitation, the story immediately following Kinda in broadcast order, contain a scene early on where Tegan is shown to be still shaken up by her possession a short while before. It was one of the rare instances in early 1980s Doctor Who to demonstrate that events could have lasting effects on a regular character.) The most outstanding performance in Kinda is Simon Rouse as Hindle, an emotionally unstable individual experiencing a mental breakdown. It would have been easy and tempting to turn in a totally over-the-top performance, making Hindle a figure of melodrama. Instead, Rouse plays it totally straight, giving an utterly convincing depiction of a man unhinged, vacillating across the emotional spectrum, going from violent and threatening to paranoid and neurotic to childlike and innocent. Hindle is a pitiable figure, but at the same time he is very scary, because you have absolutely no idea what he is going to do next. The cliffhanger ending to episode one has Hindle leveling a gun at the Doctor, Adric, and Todd, declaring to them "I have the power of life and death over all of you!" It's a riveting moment because Rouse delivers what could have been a daft line with such conviction, and you can just hear the insanity in his taut voice. And, at the story's end, after Hindle has been exposed to the Kinda's Box of Jhana, and his insanity banished, we see him in a quiet, contemplative state. Rouse really gives a three-dimensional performance. Also noteworthy is Nerys Hughes as Doctor Todd. A noted actress, Hughes turns in a solid performance, and for much of the story she fulfills the role of a temporary companion. A scientist, Todd has both the intelligence and wit to match the Doctor. Hughes and Davison have very good chemistry. At the end of the story, when the Doctor and his companions depart, I was left wishing that Todd could have gone with them, because she could have made a great regular cast member. The music for Kinda was composed by Peter Howell, who did excellent work on a number of Doctor Who stories in the 1980s. His incidental music on the dreamlike Warrior's Gate the previous season was an especially effective and memorable. For Kinda, Howell turns in another eerie, ethereal score that suits the serial perfectly. Kinda is directed by Peter Grimwade, and he does a superb job at translating a very dreamlike, cerebral script into a television program. Grimwade was one of the best directors Doctor Who had during this time period. An extra features on the DVD is a retrospective on Grimwade, who unfortunately passed away at a relatively young age in 1990. Present-day reminiscences and commentary by former colleagues are interspersed with clips from a 1987 interview of Grimwade. Speaking of DVD features, Kinda has an Optional CGI Effects Sequence. In other words, the giant cardboard snake at the end of the story that is supposed to be the Mara in its true form can be substituted by a computer generated replacement. When I first saw Kinda in the mid-1980s, I honestly didn't think the giant snake looked too bad. That was probably because A) I was an eight-year-old kid in an era before any sort of even semi-realistic CGI was possible and B) after four confusing episodes that went totally over my head, I was probably just relieved to see a monster, any monster, even if it didn't look too realistic! Of course, when I re-watched Kinda a decade or so later, yeah, by that point the giant snake was looking rather more fake to my older, jaded eyes. In any case, on the DVD that rather goofy-looking serpent has been deftly substituted for a CGI depiction of the Mara. And, wow, is it scary! Seriously, it looks like there's a malevolently hissing twenty-foot-tall snake with razor-sharp fangs writhing and coiling about on the BBC studio floor. As I mentioned earlier, when I was eight years old, I found Kinda to be almost impenetrable. Now, at age 34, what is my reaction? Well, while I have a much better comprehension of Christopher Bailey's serial, there are still elements of the story that are somewhat befuddling. My main query deals with whether or not the "A Plot" of Hindle going insane actually even connects with the "B Plot" of the Mara possessing Tegan and then Aris. I can only see one possible point of intersection. We are told by the Kinda priestess Panna that "Our suffering is the Mara's delight, our madness the Mara's meat & drink." Perhaps the Mara, which is telepathic, learned that Hindle had wired the Dome with enough explosives to destroy everything in a thirty-mile radius. The Mara, controlling Aris, might have been leading the Kinda to attack the Dome in order to provoke Hindle into detonating the bombs, causing widespread death and destruction. Then again, it could all have been a huge coincidence. I've heard theories by other people that the three figures in the black void are based upon Tegan's memories of opening scene of the story, stolen from her mind by the Mara and twisted into grotesque parodies. The ancient couple playing chess is Adric and Nyssa, the sadistic young man is the Doctor, and the abstract metal sculpture next to them is the TARDIS. It's an interesting idea. The Kinda themselves are an enigma. At first glance, they do appear to be a very primitive people. Yet they are actually telepathic. They wear necklaces that represent the double helix of DNA, indicating knowledge of molecular biology. They constructed the giant wind chimes, something the Doctor observes would have required a high degree of technical skill. And they utilize the Box of Jhana, which appears to be a simple wooden container, but which is actually a healing device capable of restoring balance to individuals with severe mental instability. The Box of Jhana, mental projections of events that are simultaneously past and future occurrences, and the ability of the wind chimes to allow the Kinda to share their dreams; all seem to be examples of Clarke Law, i.e. any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. In fact, once could hypothesize that the Kinda are so incredibly advanced that they long ago passed the point where they needed to rely on conventional technology. They are now at a point of mental and spiritual development that they live in perfect harmony with Deva Loka, negating any need for houses, mass transportation, weapons, electrical power, or anything else resembling the mechanical devices which we are dependent upon in our daily lives. Even the Mara, which appears to be some kind of demon or evil god, is probably a powerful alien entity originating from another dimension or plane of existence. At first it was surprising to learn that Christopher H. Bidmead, the script editor on the previous season of Doctor Who, had first commissioned Christopher Bailey to write Kinda. After all, one of Bidmead goals as script editor was to bring back "hard science" to the series. In contrast, Kinda is a very mystical, metaphysical story. And many people unfortunately regard science and spirituality as mutually exclusive concepts (although I personally believe that there is room for both in our understanding of the universe). Of course, Kinda is also a very cerebral story, and Bidmead wanted to produce stories that challenged viewers and made them think. In this respect, Kinda is successful. I think Kinda was slightly ahead of its time. It is a story that is very suited to the age of VHS and DVD, when it can be viewed more than once. Kinda is a complex story with a number of layers, and each time I see it I come away with a little bit more. |
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