Inferno - Episode 5

The fifth episode continues with the world going to hell in a handcart. It’s still fun to see evil Liz and evil Brigade Leader and you can tell that they are really enjoy their current roles. I like how it’s only the Brigadier that remains to stand firm about what he thinks. Liz is a bit more willing to listen to whilst Petra and Greg are also on the side of the Doctor when they aren’t having their tender moments. After a while the plot moves a bit when the Doctor is trying to convince the others to help him get back to his universe. This would be a rather

The werewolf type faces are quite effective and the sight of several of them helps create the idea that they are an effective villain and even though they don’t appear until the latter stages of the episode, they do work well and add another problem to the list that the Doctor and others currently have. The sequence where Benton gets turned into one of those creatures. All but the final shot works really well and its only the final shot before it loses some of its credibility with John Levene pulling a weird face.

Performances wise, its hard to fault anyone. I think that Caroline John and Nicholas Courtney are enjoying themselves and Jon Pertwee continues to work really hard considering he’s involved in pretty much every important or mildly important scene. Even John Levene’s performance cant be faulted even though the transformation face didn’t work as well as it could have done.

The only time we get to see the normal world is when we get back to find that Sir Keith Gold has won in having the drilling stopped (all but temporarily). It ends with the car going off the road and this is suppose to imply that this is what happened to Sir Keith in the alternate universe. That’s pretty much it and it’s weird to think that this is the second episode running where we get very little from the original universe.

I don’t know why but I just didn’t find this episode as good as the previous two. Not sure whether it has something to do with the fact that nothing really happens in this 22 minute episode and so as a result it feels a bit more like padding. With just two more episodes left to enjoy of this season I think its fair to say that I am still enjoying this story and feel that things are going to get even more tense as things really start to go to hell.