Planet Of The Spiders episode four

Episode four's a fun one. Not a great deal happens, mind - I'm guessing that this story could easily have been a four-parter, but I'm enjoying it so far, so I don't care. It doesn't drag the way that some other six-parters do. The performances are all really good, too, although I may only be saying that because Cho-je doesn't feature in this episode. Tommy is still bloody annoying, but less so as the episode progresses, for reasons that we'll come to in a moment. The only bit I'm not convinced about is the human colony on Metebelis, but I think that's an accent thing. Why is it that an old-fashioned semi-West Country accent is shorthand for backward in the Pertwee Era?! And they're supposed to be downtrodden peasants, but they dress like hippies, complete with love beads. Still, who's to say that a culture like that wouldn't ever develop.

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