Ah, Terry Nation, you do like your exploration and find weird bits episodes don't you. Well, good for you, sunshine. So do I!
Not so sure about the fetish rubbersuit dildonose men though, Gimptastic.
I realized also that in my head I'd mixed up the walking round the building in Marinus with The Daleks in my head before starting this. It shows how similar their first episodes are, because there is a lot of retreading of themes from The Dead Planet on planet of the turny doors or gimps vs monks here.
Here we have the first example of something that will follow some of the next Terry Nation stories, the Quest/Escape that requires them to go running through different places, so he can just make a new place up instead of doing an awful rock climbing episode and he can make something he enjoys instead of trying to stretch a story further than its welcome.
The actor playing Arbitan does a fine job with what little he has been given as a character but sadly he wasn't given much.
Oh well *sigh* I guess I have a good few more episodes of this to get through.
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