As I start to watch the second episode I am wondering
whether my opinion of this episode would change. I think that over the course
of the episode my question was answered and not in a totally positive way. When
Winlett looks at the camera in the early stages of the episode he does look a
bit like Tom Baker. Its something that I always think everytime I watch this
story. First time I ever saw this story I thought it was him and that I missed
something.
When Boycie, sorry Scorby appears on screen he becomes main
villain in the episode and that’s partly down to Chase not really featuring in
the episode. It’s really difficult to know who we are suppose to consider the
main villain because a case could be made for Scorby, Chase and the Krynoids.
Speaking of the Krynoids, sadly they are the Axos creatures that were used in ‘The
Claws of Axos’ however on this occasion they have been painted green. I suppose
that unless you were told you wouldn’t have noticed the difference but now I do
then all I can think that that Axons change colour depending on the
temperature.
Dunbar is another crony of Chase’s and is doing it more for
power and the annoyance he’s felt of being overlooked. This was quite an
interesting moment in an episode that was lacking interesting moments. The
episode is really a lacklustre one and that because it only really gets going
in the final few minutes of the episode. This isn’t the first story that Robert
Banks Stewart has written for Doctor Who with his first being ‘Terror of the
Zygons’ and at the moment I think that the Zygon story was the better one (so
far).
The episode ends with a very big explosion and to call it a
cliffhanger is probably over doing it. I wasn’t totally impressed with this
episode as it did feel like an awful lot of padding was involved before we got to
anything interesting. I don’t think that every episode is going to be like this
this is definelty a decline in quality in terms of storytelling.
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