Curiously this was celebrated as the 150th DW story at the time of broadcast. It is if you count Trial of a Timelord as 4 stories.
By our count it's 147...
After the last few Sophie Aldred as Ace is a breath of fresh air.
Ace pulls the tops of the cans and walks up to the frozen hatchway.)
- ACE: If I were you lot, I'd go for your tea break now.
- KRACAUER: Why? What's in those cans?
- ACE: Nitro Nine. We've got eight seconds. Last one back's a gooey mess.
Best dialogue in ages.
The end of p1 is mystifying. The script says the Doctor's meant to be trying to reach some thing he's seen that attracts his eye. What's the director's explanation of this? Not aware of any answer. On the DVD Making of Doco his answer is not explanatory. He stumbles and apologises. And why not simply end the ep on Ace and Mel meeting the Dragon monster 30 seconds earlier? Chris Clough = dingbat.
The sets in this look very "end of the season', 'no money left'. The polystyrene foam covered in glad wrap thing for ice caves looked shit in Keys of Marinus in 1964......
Middle ep loses it a bit. The final ep has an early climax and then there's there new companion segment which is pretty good really.
Sophie is noticeably better than Bonnie. It's the writing not entirely the performance.
ABM Rating 1.90/4.00
LJM Rating 3.50/5.00
SPJ Rating 5.65/10
No. 97 (out of 150)
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