Again, I watched this with the flu so if I’m particularly unpleasant to it then maybe that’s why…
Only I can’t be that unpleasant to it as I’m sat here typing – having literally just finished watching it – and I can’t think of anything to write about it.
I guess the story does set up some nice ideas – a living planet and the boundary between matter and anti-matter – but they’re never developed into anything interesting. The Doctor and Sarah-Jane arrive and are treated as alien menaces themselves and this cliché takes up most of the story.
The secondary characters are not very interesting and have no depth to them whatsoever.
The scientist, Sorensen, who causes all the grief by nicking minerals from the planet for analysis is a man with honourable intentions but again is never really fleshed out into anything of any great interest.
It just drags. All that can be said of it in any positive light is that it’s only 4 parts. Oh, actually, the cliffhangers are quite good. One of them is actually almost very good. That’s about it though. Sorry.
4/10.
Only I can’t be that unpleasant to it as I’m sat here typing – having literally just finished watching it – and I can’t think of anything to write about it.
I guess the story does set up some nice ideas – a living planet and the boundary between matter and anti-matter – but they’re never developed into anything interesting. The Doctor and Sarah-Jane arrive and are treated as alien menaces themselves and this cliché takes up most of the story.
The secondary characters are not very interesting and have no depth to them whatsoever.
The scientist, Sorensen, who causes all the grief by nicking minerals from the planet for analysis is a man with honourable intentions but again is never really fleshed out into anything of any great interest.
It just drags. All that can be said of it in any positive light is that it’s only 4 parts. Oh, actually, the cliffhangers are quite good. One of them is actually almost very good. That’s about it though. Sorry.
4/10.