The Space Pirates - Episode 3

Something that strikes me about this episode. Just how on earth are we suppose to take Clancy as a serious criminal. It’s difficult to take him seriously when he talks like he does. It would have ruined Star Wars if Darth Vader had talked like a hillbilly. Also James Bond wouldn’t have worried so much about Blofeld if he started singing Yankey-Doodle-Dandy. The only thing that I really take from this episode is that the Doctor tries to get back to the TARDIS. That’s it really, apart from a lot of talking about Argonite and also how people are after Clancy.

After three episodes I don’t know where this story is going. It’s desperately dull and doesn’t have anything exciting about it. I can’t take anyone in this episode seriously and I am surprised that this story was written by the legendary Robert Holmes. I know that he does much better but before I got to the Krotons I would have struggled to think which of the two were the worst but after re-evaluating that story I have to say that this story is the worst Holmes’ story. I have given this story the rating of 6.67 out of 10 which is the lowest episode since the third episode of ‘The Dominators’ back in mid-December  and the first time that an episode has fallen into the 6’s since the fourth episode of that story.

As we don’t have this on video or have any telesnaps its hard to imagine what the hell is going on and its becoming harder to care and as a result its going to be a shorter review than normal and I think that this will be the case as we approach the latter half of the story.