The story doesn’t get off to the best of starts when the first ‘creature’ of the story appears. The Chumblies are named by Vicki and it’s a silly name. How are we supposed to see it as a menace when Vicki goes and gives it this name. She might as well have called a bunny rabbit. Their involvement in the story is quite important but they have the same problem as the Zarbi had in ‘The Web Planet’ and that is they only communicate in a weird high pitch tone. We also encounter the Drahvins who are a group of women who use men purely for reproduction. It’s the first time that the threat comes entirely from women. It’s quite easy to spot them as the baddies in this piece. They try their best to make themselves seem like the victims and the mere idea that they want to take someone else’s property instead of trying to see if they can both leave together shows the mentality of the Drahvins and why they are no good.
I like how the purpose of the story is spelt out so quickly.
The planet that they are on is about to explode quite quickly. The Drahvins
wants to get off and their space ship won’t start so they want to steal the
Drahvins ship so that they can survive. It’s a simple plot that you see what
the end point is going to be and so there is no need to try and figure out what
the point of the story is. Just enjoy it and sigh when the Chumblies appear on
screen. As for the episode, it loses a lot being on audio. The narration by
Peter Purves helps a bit but I think that when we get to Air Lock we can see
how they story works better when you can see it.
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