Comment down your problems with the fifth serial of the first season,
Comment down your problems with the fifth serial of the first season,
Mine: None. It's a good episode.
I mean, it's just ridiculous. It's fun, but it's not very good. Yartek thinking he can disguise himself by wearing a hood despite having a head the size of Denmark. When another villain is thrown down a well (I think), the only thing we see plummet is a fluttering cut-out. The cavernous set for Arbitan's tower is impressive, but comes at the expense of the cramped beach. Watching the cast tiptoe around it, finding new places to step and "suddenly" noticing things that must have been in clear view isn't without its moments, but doesn't do much to engage us in the story. If it's bad now, aired after the expansive (and expensive) Marco Polo it must have been egregious. The plot itself, as Dr Theta Sigma demonstrated the other week, barely touches upon its moral dilemma at all.
Are the Voord blokes in suits, or creatures that look like blokes in suits? Is it Voord or Voords? How are we supposed to take Sabetha's fairytale romance with Altos seriously when he's apparently as gay as a goose? In the event, we probably don't care. Fun though.
Yartek doesn’t even have the Big Stick yet. And I don’t understand why he is not unleashing the full power of the Enemy on to Marinus. Of course this could just be all part of his Plan in his War against the Time Lords. Still doesn’t explain the absence of the Big Stick however.
Ya know I don’t know why but it took me three tries to finish this story when watching it because I would end one part and then forget to pick it back up.
It is a good story though, it just took me being in the right mood
What do you think?