I was hoping that the cliffhanger would change to get rid of
the unfortunate shot of Peri upset at thinking that the Doctor was dead. The
Doctor does turn up a few moments later although there is a slight continuity
error during this moment. The Doctor seems shocked that Peri was sad when she
thought that the Doctor had died. This is something that bothers me is that
there is a lot of bickering. Just the thing that the story doesn’t need is what
seems to be running through the episode. There is more bickering throughout the
episode which is really starting to get on my nerves. To show how annoying this
is let me state that I didn’t find the terrible twins.
The action moves to Jaconda where the stupidest looking
creature for a long time Mestor is seen in the flesh. When he is punishing
someone for stealing some food he does it in a rather stupid way. I just cant
get past the weird way that it looks. The encounter between Mestor and Azmael
is quite good because it shows that there isn’t much trust between the two. Azmael
once ruled Jaconda which explains why he is trying to be treacherous against
Mestor. Quite why its taken until half way through the third episode for this
to happen.
The Doctor’s reaction when he discovers that Jaconda isn’t the
lovely paradise he thought it would be is entertaining to watch. Colin Baker
still does well in what is a rather poor written episode. This was the only
story to be written by Anthony Steven and I have never seen anything else he’s
done but I cant imagine that what he had done in the past was worst than this
story. Peter Moffat has been an ok director for the show but he’s not allowed
to do anything spectacular with the material that he’s been given.
When Lang is stuck in the gastropod’s slime it doesn’t seem
to dawn on anyone that he should just take his feet out of the boots. This
seems to just delay McNally’s involvement in the cliffhanger for just a couple
of moments later.
The cliffhanger is ok because it’s like the opposite of the
previous cliffhanger but we don’t have Peri’s unfortunate look. This is
probably the best episode so far which isn’t a huge compliment. At least there
is only one more episode left to endure. 
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