The final episode of ‘The Web Planet’. Oh how I thought it
would never end. The episode starts off with the great image of the Doctor and
Vicki covered in the web. The most padded story in Doctor Who history continues
to do what it has done for the previous episodes and that is to fill the
running time with a lot of Zarbi and Menoptra nonsense. Another thing that was a let down was the
Animus. After several episodes of being a mysterious and at times creepy voice,
it was a shame that it was a big light bulb with some tentacles. It looked like
a massive mess.
Unfortunately despite my best efforts I didn’t actually
understand what was going on. There was a lot of impressive visual scenes but
sadly it seemed to just continue to confuse me. The one crumb of comfort in
this story is that visually it works. There were some good moments when the
Menoptra were flying through the air and the idea to have some new lense on the
camera to give a different impression also helped make this story stand out
even though at times its been a bit overpowering. The landscape of Vortis was
also well realised and even though seeing it for six episodes might have got a
bit repetitive there have been worst sets in the show.
As far as the human performances go, in this episode they
were perfectly fine and whilst none of them shone in their usual way they did
the best that they could with what was quite frankly a rubbish script.
I am so relieved to have got to the end of ‘The Web Planet’
by far the worst story in Doctor Who so far and even when you consider that it
was a complicated story to produce and also very ambitious. Sadly if the budget
had been bigger and the running time much shorter then it would have been a
different result but sadly ‘The Web Planet’ is what it is. A elongated mess of
a story.
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