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jeriendhalWhat I Learned From This Serial:
1. Single Planetwide Transportation Mode = Bad Idea.
2. You can vaporize an attacker instantly if you have enough sun lamps.
3. Planetary weather controls can be reduced to a set of about three toggles if you're clever enough.
4. Dumpy, slow moving alien invaders can be remarkably effective combatants when their opponents are kind enough to freeze in place and not take any kind of cover.
5. Don't hinge the precision placement of your invasion fleet on an easily jammed guidance signal. Especially when you've already proven you can pilot spaceships across the solar system without it.
6. In the 1960's, the BBC had a bubble machine the likes of which Lawrence Welk could only dream of.
In Short: A really pedestrian six-part serial which could have easily been trimmed to a four-parter. I think the only reason the BBC released it on DVD ahead of anything else is because there are so darned few Patrick Troughton stories out there. Also, there's a painful lack of extras, not even a gallery of publicity pictures, just a commentary track with Frasier Hines and the actress who played Zoe.
1. Single Planetwide Transportation Mode = Bad Idea.
2. You can vaporize an attacker instantly if you have enough sun lamps.
3. Planetary weather controls can be reduced to a set of about three toggles if you're clever enough.
4. Dumpy, slow moving alien invaders can be remarkably effective combatants when their opponents are kind enough to freeze in place and not take any kind of cover.
5. Don't hinge the precision placement of your invasion fleet on an easily jammed guidance signal. Especially when you've already proven you can pilot spaceships across the solar system without it.
6. In the 1960's, the BBC had a bubble machine the likes of which Lawrence Welk could only dream of.
In Short: A really pedestrian six-part serial which could have easily been trimmed to a four-parter. I think the only reason the BBC released it on DVD ahead of anything else is because there are so darned few Patrick Troughton stories out there. Also, there's a painful lack of extras, not even a gallery of publicity pictures, just a commentary track with Frasier Hines and the actress who played Zoe.
