Well this was actually quite surprising, I was expecting it to be another dull 6 part serial where I would be still watching it next week. But it turned out I rather enjoyed it. It starts off with the doctor and Jo arriving on a spaceship type thing, which is a great set although it is a little stereotypical of a doctor who spaceship. We then meet the pilots who see the doctor and Jo as Draconians who the people of Earth are about to have a war with but the Draconians are actually quite nice and your kind of made to feel sympathy for them, it is actually The Master, who's working with the Daleks, who's using the Ogrons to look like Draconians and start a war. It is a rather confusing plot, but there is a lot of the doctor and Jo being put in prisons so you can kind of keep up. The Daleks only appear very briefly at the end of episode six, the master is the main villain here (and I'll just say that at this point I haven't yet seen Planet of the Daleks, as these two stories are kind of an arc.) My favourite part is when the doctor and Jo are trapped on the Masters ship, there is some excellent dialogue here. My favourite character has to be The master beautifully played by Roger Delgado as usual, but I also like the president of Earth character (fitting she was female). There is some excellent model shots that were really ambitious for back them (even though they stole them from another programme it said in the features). Overall I could write more about this episode as it was great but oh well, for them to improve I will have to watch Planet of Daleks to see what they could have done better. Finally on a rather sad note, this is Delgado's last episode since he died in a car crash, so RIP Roger Delgado!
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