The 25 minutes that I spent listening to this story felt
like 2 hours. The fact that absolutely nothing happens in this episode is one
of the reasons why it’s the fourth worst episode of Patrick Troughton’s run.
Only The Highlanders episodes three and four and ‘The Evil of the Daleks’
episode three have received worst ratings. Not even Clancy can help sustain my
attention and as a result I don’t really care about the characters or the plot.
I don’t think that I will even bother with an in depth review. I could go on
about the six parts running time or the lack of visuals but at this particular
moment in time I’m just bored of that. The only good thing about this moment of
time is that there are just two episodes left to endure of this story and two
episodes before I enter the wonder land of DVDs and pretty soon in colour.
For the brief moment that I was following the goings on in
this episode which as far as I could tell was just running about and the annoying
space pompous people are closing in on Clancy who I still cant buy as a menace
even though he’s clearly past his prime. The moment came when the Doctor was
trying to do something with a tuning fork and Jamie just happens to find the
right tune by throwing the tuning fork down to the ground in annoyance. What?
This shows that Robert Holmes has just given up and this is definelty the low
point in his career.
As a result its not hard to understand what I think about
this episode. It’s the joint lowest episode of the series (tied with episode
three of The Dominators). I don’t see that its going to improve with the final
two episodes but brave heart!!
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