The Doctor’s mission is a lot clear than it was when he went
off in ‘Colony in Space’. He has to deliver a ball to someone. The Timelords went
to the trouble of sending it to the Doctor but not bothering to tell him who it
was for. Bit careless of the Timelords really. If only they had put a name on
it then it would have reduced this six part adventure to a four part adventure.
The box does open when Ky walks by and this explains who it is for but it would
have spared us some time if we knew who was suppose to get it.
The world that the Doctor and Jo find themselves in is one
of humans giving independence of Solos to the solonians. The earthmen (or
overlords as they referred to) aren’t particularly interesting. They are as
bland as boring as you could imagine. Only Geoffrey Palmer has any life in him.
Even the Solonians aren’t very interesting and whilst I could understand their
frustration, I think that they don’t find any of them particularly interesting
which is a problem that is going to follow the rest of the story.
The cliffhanger was probably the best thing of the entire
episode as it was the only time there was any excitement. So as you can
probably imagine, I still don’t think that this story is as good as it could
be. I am still hoping that things pick up but after being spoilt with a good monster
and some good location filming, I don’t think that my opinion is going to
change but there are still five episodes to change my mind.
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