As we approach the mid way point of the story I find myself
wondering if I had been wrong about this story before as I have found the
previous two episodes to be far better than I had previously thought. We know
where we stand with both camps and who we are suppose to think are the good
characters and the ones that could be in the Master camp.
It’s good that both groups finally get to meet each other as
considering the planet cant be that big it was getting silly that they didn’t at
least communicate with each other. Ashe and Dent are two very different people
with different points of view. Dent continues to be the best thing in the story
because he’s so wonderfully evil and seems to enjoying being this evil.
Jo does a lot more than she did in the previous episode.
Even the very first we see her its more than she did in the previous episode.
Here she starts the episode by helping Mary Ashe on the radio and then gets
chained to a box. She becomes more involved in the story and that’s a great
relief because Katy Manning has been too good this season to just be forgotten
in the corner. Jon Pertwee continues to be very good and I love the moment when
he interrupts the meeting between Ashe and Dent by saying that he will tell his
side of the story to the correct authorities.
I must admit that I found this episode to be very ordinary.
It’s not terrible by any means and there are things to enjoy but it just didn’t
really strike me as very interesting. It’s now been three episodes since Roger
Delgado was last seen and I think that it’s a wise choice to have left it as
long as they did. I wonder if anyone was going to put any missing posters out
for him. I don’t really have much to add to the review of this episode as it
was largely about people bickering and talking about legality and how it should
be upheld which is mighty interesting I’m sure but it just started to get a bit
of the tiresome side. The second half of this story is where its going to
change and hopefully it will pick up from this lacklustre episode.
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