The thing about this story is that part of me likes it but
then part of me is totally frustrated with it. The opening episode is always
the best one because it sets things up and its usually the cliffhangers in
future episodes that make the thing work. The previous cliffhanger was total disappointing
and so the episode started off in a slightly disappointing way. Not even Tom Baker
and Elisabeth Sladen can get me excited.
I will be honest and say that the whole sacrificing angle to
be rather tiresome and as a result I thought that the whole episode was a
massive disappointment for this reason. The thing is that unless this sort of
thing interests you then you are not going to be that excited by things. That’s
not a critiscm of Louis Marks or of Philip Hinchcliffe but just that this story
isn’t working for me. There are probably people who aren’t fans of stories that
I like such as ‘Inside the Spaceship’. Doctor Who attracts different sorts of
fans and some will like sacrificing.
I haven’t mentioned until now that Tim Pigott-Smith and that’s
largely because he has been up against Gareth Armstrong’s Giuliano and in this
episode he does have a few scenes on his own but it does seem like he is a bit
wasted in this story and the role could have gone to someone else and
Pigott-Smith could have had a meatier role which would befit his talents.
The bit where Federico unmasks Hiernoymous only to see a
glowing sphere where his face use to be was the only good moment in the entire
episode and that was the cliffhanger. I think that I have finally lost patience
with this story and its probably lucky that the next episode is the final one
because this is a story that has failed to grip me in any way. I think had it
not been for the costumes and the location filming then I would have been
really annoyed with this story.
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