Musings on Ep 6...
- Ganatus and Barbara are making a foxy duo on the spelunking mission.
- "Do you always do what Ian says?", Ganatus you big, fey flirt!
- Very grim stuff in the caves, I remembered more of a 'boys own adventure' in the caves, but it's actually pretty bleak and tense; hugely padded yes, but still pleasingly bleak.
- The Ganatus & Antodus stand-off is well played. I just want to slap Antodus! I suppose that's the point. It's amazing that Ganatus contained himself as well as he did for their whole life.
- Hartnell clearly loved getting to do his bit of business with the key chain causing the short-circuit.
- It's a nice little Doctor/ Susan scene actually, and you know what? she's not annoying me! Never thought I'd say it, but Carole AF was a capable little actress and I think she (Susan) gets worse in coming stories and I bet Carole was told to play younger, less alien and more vulnerable, so the kids would be able to relate more readily. A terrible decision by the production team, but I'm willing to bet that was indeed the adjusted brief and if she wasn't told explicitly, it played out clear as day in the scripts she was given.
- The Hartnell charicature is starting to emerge! You never really saw it in 'An Unearthly Child'; but the doddery, shuffling, giggling-to-himself old boffin is now starting to appear more and more. Shame really. I would have loved to have seen more of the sinister and textured Doctor from AUC, but then, it would have alienated viewers I suppose. This version is certainly warmer and more forgiveable for his manipulations and moments of blinkered self-interest.
- Enjoyed The Doctor boasting at his short-circuit solution then the immediate comeuppance as he is surrounded by a hoard of Daleks.
- Good scene with the Doctor and Susan on the floor surrounded by Daleks, ending with the explicit Nazi-style raised plunger salute.
- Doctor: "it's sheer murder"... Deadpan Dalek: "no, ex-ter-mination". Simple, but effective.
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