What the heck?
Once again we have the stupid race and the smart race. The smart race is evil, and the stupid race is...well, stupid.
The thing that irritated me was that the Gonds had been sacrificing their intelligent people to the Krotons for hundreds of years. Hundreds. So, it took the Doctor to come along and slap everyone awake. Over the years, someone should have spied a person come staggering through the back doors, and see them die by smoke. Or not. The Doctor and his companions witnessed this about five minutes after they had landed.
We made all sorts of jokes about "The Croutons" and "The Gongs". Who wouldn't?
There is no way that I am not going to mock the Krotons' appearance.
The Krotons can turn mental power into pure energy. How is that even possible. This is another of those "Let's harness someone's mental power and use it for bad purposes" plots.
There's an awful lot of acid that Jamie and his friends have made. Did you notice the one guy who had the kerchief just over his mouth and not over his nose as well? Apparently he gets a kick out of breathing acid.
For the first time, the TARDIS moves itself when it's threatened. That is strange. It only moves a bit of distance, too. Wouldn't that be crummy if it moved itself to another planet? What's weird is that the TARDIS moves into the craggy hill, but at the end of the episode, it is back where it was. Presumably it moved back once the threat had disappeared, or maybe the writers have just stopped caring.
The Doctor has a twirling umbrella!
Zoe is back in a mini-skirt. Or should I say she is back in a 'no skirt'? I think it's just a shirt.
Zoe is fairly well pleased with herself, when she initially does better than the Doctor during the tests. The Doctor is a little petulant about it the whole thing. He doesn't do well with tests. Eventually he redeems himself and scores higher than Zoe.
I really did not like this one. Sorry, fans.
Next Up: The Seeds of Death
No comments:
Post a Comment