Was always curious why this Davison finale had received the accolades it does, so I gave it a go instead of looking for the Stargate SG-1 episode that followed up the one I watched on 5.3 earlier in the evening (seems Netflix took them all down, anyway; they’re unpredictable like that). And I still get nothing out of his era, with or without Tegan. This serial in particular struck me as poorly made: laughably bad villains, including the head of a corporation, a Phantom and a guy in a monster suit, I’m not sure which was worst; set design and special effects that really stand out as examples of budget casualties where they already didn’t need any more; and painful scenes, of mercenaries who can’t hit their fleeing target with automatic weapons from a few yards away, much less the whole tawdry premise that the Doctor and his companion are doomed from the beginning by toxic illness, the lone legacy of this being Peri’s cleavage.
This compares to “Pyramids of Mars” and “The Talons of Weng-Chiang” how?
The Caves of Androzani
July 8th, 2013 § 0 comments
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