The third part of this episode continues with Ben still
under the influence. After the enjoyable previous episode, it was always going
to be tough to get two episodes that are similar in excitement and it’s a sad
thing to say that despite some perfectly fine performances, it just feels like
they are trying to kill time until the final episode. No one seems to have a particularly
impressive episode though it’s Michael Craze who has the best time here as he
starts off being possessed and slowly becomes unstable as the hold over him
disappears. I love the voice that Craze uses to differentiate the possessed Ben
against the normal cockney Ben. Anneke
Wills is not very active in this story and apart from a few moments, Patrick
Troughton doesn’t exactly have his best episode ever. There was a fun moment
when he works something out whereas its taken the locals years to fail. He has
to get rid of his working out like a naughty child has to rub out what he’s
done.
Something that stands out for me is the music. It’s becoming
more and more annoying and the rather lame songs are becoming more and more
tiresome. It feels like some naff 1950’s Holiday camp or even the sort of thing
that you would hear in ‘Delta and the Bannermen’. Actually that would have
improved that story but that’s a long way down the road.
The ending of the episode is rather good or at least it
sounds rather good. Due to the narration links by Anneke Wills the thought of
the Macra being very active is something that is quite good to think about.
However the realities of the situation is that it probably wouldn’t have looked
quite as good. I think that they have taken their foot off the gas a bit and
this episode doesn’t quite have the impact that there has been with the
previous two so in ratings terms it’s the weakest of the three so far.
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