Meglos - Episode 3

I didn’t realise that yesterdays episode was watched by 4.2 million people which is one of the lowest ratings that Doctor Who has had an shows that something needed changing. Half a million more people tuned in for this episode and they didn’t really miss anything and this is another episode where very little happens. I am really struggling to find anything wrong with the episode because there is very little to pick up.

Something I did pick up is how much I liked Tom Baker’s performance as the Meglos Doctor. There were a few moments which saw a certain amount of intensity which does show how much the characters has changed in such a short amount of time. Lalla Ward is stuck with Grugger as Romana has them walking around in circles for most of the episodes. When Romana does manage to make it to where the action is its quite late in the episode and doesn’t really lead to much.

The cliffhanger is much better than the last one with the Doctor about to be crushed by a big slab of stone and this is a much better way to end an episode and with the viewers knowing that he would be leaving the show, it was perfectly possible that he could have left at the end of this episode. Even though he’s the longest serving Doctor ever and this is his 147^th episode, he does show some glimpses of his old self and I think that that his costume has somehow put a different energy into the performance.

This is a very short episode because quite frankly if there is nothing to report then there isn’t much reason for me to write about nothing. I didn’t hate this episode as it wasn’t terrible but I think that this episode is perhaps going to be remembered as bland and inactive episode. Hopefully the final episode will make up for the lack of excitement and the performances may stand out because very little has. Not even Jacqueline Hill could make me interested in the story.