14-03-2015, 19:43
^ You can't beat a good man-wrapped-in-green-bubble-wrap monster
I remember being bitterly disappointed when I first saw it on VHS, after having really liked the Ian Marter book and imagined something much more creepy.
The Doctor and Harry pinned down by an automatic laser defence system...turns out to be much less impressive when you see Tom Baker and Ian Marter's bottoms in close up as they slowly shuffle across a studio floor under a balsa-wood-looking table.
But it's grown on me.
If they made it now, the spacestation interiors would be much less brightly lit, and all shadowy, so that the less-than-impressive "space grubs" larvae stage of the monster wouldn't be quite so cruelly exposed and funny.
I remember being bitterly disappointed when I first saw it on VHS, after having really liked the Ian Marter book and imagined something much more creepy.
The Doctor and Harry pinned down by an automatic laser defence system...turns out to be much less impressive when you see Tom Baker and Ian Marter's bottoms in close up as they slowly shuffle across a studio floor under a balsa-wood-looking table.
But it's grown on me.
If they made it now, the spacestation interiors would be much less brightly lit, and all shadowy, so that the less-than-impressive "space grubs" larvae stage of the monster wouldn't be quite so cruelly exposed and funny.