Story Title: Planet Of Giants
Episode Count: 3 Series: 2 Story No: 1
Doctor: 1st Companions: Ian, Barbara & Susan
Date(s) Watched: Thursday 1st January 2009
An oddity of a story this one, originally a four parter then cut down to a three parter, and to be honest that’s not a bad thing. That’s not me saying the story is bad, I think it’s great, but a fourth episode would have spoilt it somewhat.
Again Team Tardis is on form, although Susan does grizzle a bit sometimes (what a surprise), Barbara is on form, especially during her illness & Ian is a man of action throughout. The Doctor however is on form yet again, acting the detective trying to solve what’s going on & why they are as microscopic as they are.
The giant set pieces are great & although the close ups of the dead minister are obviously photos it works for the story in the sense that the character has just died. I also liked the music, even if it wasn’t that outstanding.
The only thing wrong with the story was that the normal sized human beings were played a bit “flat”, they seemed rather emotionless, plus I didn’t quiet get the pesticide/famine bit, although this could be me missing the point that Smithers doesn’t realise, at that point, that his formula is wiping out everything.
Also that blooper with the cliff-hanger of part 2 & resolution of part 3 was a rather large ****-up although I suppose back before the days of VHS & DVD not many people would have recognised it.
Overall Rating: 4/5 – Nice little story, played well by Team Tardis although support cast are a little flat, however the great enlarged sets more than make up for that
Episode Count: 3 Series: 2 Story No: 1
Doctor: 1st Companions: Ian, Barbara & Susan
Date(s) Watched: Thursday 1st January 2009
An oddity of a story this one, originally a four parter then cut down to a three parter, and to be honest that’s not a bad thing. That’s not me saying the story is bad, I think it’s great, but a fourth episode would have spoilt it somewhat.
Again Team Tardis is on form, although Susan does grizzle a bit sometimes (what a surprise), Barbara is on form, especially during her illness & Ian is a man of action throughout. The Doctor however is on form yet again, acting the detective trying to solve what’s going on & why they are as microscopic as they are.
The giant set pieces are great & although the close ups of the dead minister are obviously photos it works for the story in the sense that the character has just died. I also liked the music, even if it wasn’t that outstanding.
The only thing wrong with the story was that the normal sized human beings were played a bit “flat”, they seemed rather emotionless, plus I didn’t quiet get the pesticide/famine bit, although this could be me missing the point that Smithers doesn’t realise, at that point, that his formula is wiping out everything.
Also that blooper with the cliff-hanger of part 2 & resolution of part 3 was a rather large ****-up although I suppose back before the days of VHS & DVD not many people would have recognised it.
Overall Rating: 4/5 – Nice little story, played well by Team Tardis although support cast are a little flat, however the great enlarged sets more than make up for that
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