The first scene with Ben and Polly was a mixture of amusing,
Polly starts off by being scarred of rats and then uses the logic that as they
are in a time when magic is seen as a sign of being a witch. Ben and Polly
spend the episode trying to find the Doctor and after spending a long time
looking for him they decide to go back to the TARDIS. Ian and Barbara wouldn’t have
done this and its not a great moment for Ben and Polly.
William Hartnell seems to have fallen back in the habit of
sitting down and not doing a great deal. It’s a shame really after several
episodes of being mobile. I don’t really remember much involvement from
Hartnell in this story. It’s Anneke Wills and Michael Craze who are the more
active and it does seem like were back with what Peter Purves was doing for
most of his time on the show. Luckily I am liking Anneke Wills and Michael
Craze and think that they are doing well in the show even though its been said
that Hartnell wasn’t so keen on Wills and Craze being on the show due to them
being too young but not sure whether that’s true.
I have given up on this story really because there isn’t much
going on. There are a bunch of smugglers trying to cover up a murder and that’s
it really. There aren’t any interesting character any it seems like the good
start that the first episode had managed to come up with has been ruined
because it’s not a great idea and I’m struggling to come up with anything to
say about this so its going to be another short entry, hopefully the next
episode will be much better because it needs something to try and restore my
faith in this story because apart from the combination of Ben and Polly there isn’t
much to write about in this story.
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