
Rokesmith
Now on to Planet of the Daleks

Rokesmith
In the jungle, the creepy jungle, Jo Grant fights a plant...

Rokesmith
I'd question the logic of having invisible aliens if the effects you need to show them manipulating real objects look more fake than any rubber creatures might

Rokesmith
This alien space pod bears a distracting resemblance to the inside of a caravan. It also wobbles like the inside of a caravan.

Rokesmith
Apparently it was carrying a galaxy's worth of theramins. Which I assume is being played by a small orchestra of those invisible aliens

Rokesmith
The Doctor, meanwhile, has been liquid-cemented inside his own time machine. This after being shot in the head at the end of the previous serial. He's not having a good day

Rokesmith
I don't know why the Thals memorialise their first encounter with the Doctor. Ian was the one doing all the work. "All hail Ian, the violent saviour."

Rokesmith
And now a sequence where the Doctor uses spraypaint to fight an invisible Dalek. Maybe he really is Banksy

Rokesmith
I wonder if all these invisible aliens are mildly asthmatic

Rokesmith
How do you mime a fist-fight with an invisible alien? Really... not very well, it turns out

Rokesmith
For all the jokes about corridor marathons, the old serials could do a great job off developing the supporting cast (so you'd be sad when they were mostly exterminated) and building tension