Nyssa’s final story is still one that is lacking any humour.
After the announcement that they are on a ship with people contracting a deadly
disease things get decidedly worse. Nyssa manages to shed her skirt meaning
that its not technically a costume that she’s wearing. She has become infected
and so it seems like she’s going to meet a grim ending. The only positive for
Nyssa is that she finished the episode with more clothing than when she started
and she has the healthiest complexion of anyone in that room. Tegan and
Turlough are side-lined for most of the episode as they use tunnels to try and
escape the lazars.
The episode sees other people introduced into the story and
they don’t seem any better off than Kari and Olivr that we saw in the previous
episode. I did like Olivr a bit more in this episode as there seemed to be a
bit more effort put into why he was perhaps not as brave as he should be in his
position. I still think that Liza Goddard is the better of the two. Of the new
characters, its difficult to actually tell them all apart because they are all
quite glum and they all look the same. The costumes that they have to wear aren’t
the greatest because they keep clunking together everytime they move and it
becomes distracting after a while. The masks they wear are quite impressive and
suit the part very much.
What is also introduced is a big wolf thing with red eyes
that doesn’t quite work. It doesn’t move or act right which might be a weird
thing to mention but its true. It is perhaps the best thing that it didn’t speak
because a silent massive wolf is perhaps the best thing that could be done to
introduced what is going to be used more than once in this story.
The episode ends with the Doctor being strangled which is an
odd cliffhanger because it does seem to have been building up from anything.
Kari and the Doctor are looking around and Valgard spots them before starting
to strangle Kari and then the Doctor. It’s perhaps the only thing that lets
down an otherwise perfectly fine episode. I’m not disliking this episode as
much as I thought I would. This story is one of those that seems to benefit
from being watched an episode a day. I would say that I am struggling to figure
out what the plot is except that there is a lot of Lazars and that’s clearly a
bad thing. The previous story seemed to improve in the second half. I’m not
saying that this story is bad but it just feels like its lacking the meat of
the story and this story should go up even more in my estimation.
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