I was being negative in my head about The Keys of Marinus, but I forgot how good and dark this episode was. Especially when you see the world as it really is.
Personally the next time someone asks me about their clothes I want to say, "It's dirty.... dirty rags" at them.
The bit where William Hartnell picks up the cup thinking it's an incredible scientific instrument is particularly amusing and dark. But not as horrendously dark as the destruction of the brain things, especially as we're supposed to think of it as a good thing, sure the good guys escaped as a result, but that howl of anguish... Jesus.. And then The Doctor referring to them as "repellent brain things" after they were dead. The Doctor of "There should have been another way" is a long way away.
Given that we had gimps with dildo noses last episode and this one has a pretty blonde girl wandering round saying, "I am to be punished", I think it says a lot about Terry Nations tastes.
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