Max doesn’t seem entirely convincing in his current role as the
baddie. He just comes across as a little bit wet. Wanda Ventham doesn’t really
do very much in this episode so it falls to Adam and Dr Fendelman to be the
supporting characters moving that part of the story. Mrs Tyler becomes more
important to the story. She is the only bit of comedy in this story and she’s
in her prime during this episode. With the Doctor preoccupied with other
things, he can’t pretend that liquorice allsorts are jelly babies and do other
funny things.
The running theme of these episodes has been that not a
great deal has been happening but stuff has been going on to keep me
entertained. This is going to be one of those short reviews because despite
this being a well written and well directed episode (along with the other two),
I cant really say a great deal about this episode.
This episode doesn’t really get going until the final few
minutes of the episode when the Fendahl creature appears. It looks a lot better
than the swarm/nucleus thing that we saw in the previous story. It’s a shame
that it waited until the end of the episode for this to happen as I would have
liked this more than Max attempting to do the whole baddie thing. This perhaps isn’t
the strongest episode but it’s not a terrible episode by any means. It’s good
that there has been some progression as far as activity is concerned and I
still can’t get past the fact that I am enjoying this story far more than I
thought.
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