OH. MY. WORD.
I laughed my way through this entire episode, it was so bad and so ridiculous. Gigantic crabs taking over the town! I don't know if it was intended to be outrageously serious, or if it was one of those slyly humorous episodes. Whatever the case, there is no way that an episode about evil crabs can be taken half way seriously. The expert viewer and I kept up a steady stream of bad jokes such as, "They have crabs" up until the end.
The other nasty thing was that it was all in stills, with just a few seconds here and there of moving film. This was probably another one of those episodes that would be appreciated without reconstructions. Or maybe not. In the dark, the crabs really looked like someone had attached a couple claws to a pick up truck.
There was a lot of jolly music and dancing in this episode. In fact when it first started, I thought it was a Christmas commercial. You think this is all going to be great and comfy.
Everyone gets massaged, fed and patted. The Doctor manages to still end up looking rumpled even after a cleaning. We really needed to see Ben without a shirt!
But everyone knows that is not a great place. There are killer crabs lurking in the dark. We are confronted with more stupid humans, who are being mind controlled by the Macra to create a gas that the Macra need in order to survive. Such a happy place to be, isn't it?
Suspiciously, Ben was the one who got mind controlled, and was walking around betraying everyone. I've very mixed feelings about this Ben character. He doesn't seem to have much intelligence, and seems to be the fall guy a lot of times. I still maintain that most of his lines are in the form of questions. I don't know if he really is stupid, or if it is just an act.
The Doctor basically cuts off the gas supply that the Macra need to live, and they all die. That's all it takes to bring them down. Everyone is happy again. We get to see a picture of people dancing and singing again. They even have a festival dedicated to the strangers who saved their town. They call it the Crab Festival with an all-you-can-eat crab contest. This is also when Joe opened his very first crab shack.
I'm sorry, I can't help myself. I'd better stop before people get mad at me.
Wait, isn't that the same picture they used in the beginning of the episode? Crappy recons.
Next Up: The Faceless Ones
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