The Tenth Planet (Doctor Who): review

Cool shot of a rocket, but it's a bit too long. Nice title card though. Similar to the War Machines one. Interesting to see a black man in 60's Doctor Who. Obviously back then, black people were treated badly, so that's quite interesting. But it's good that the casting team weren't racist. You can really see that Hartnell's character has changed in personality since An Unearthly Child. He's got kinder to people who weren't family, which is very nice. When the Doctor gets insulted, he doesn't have a temper tantrum like he usually does! Which is strange. Obviously the whole plot of this story nearly gets changed very slightly, in Attack of the Cybermen. Not sure I like it so far, but I've only watched half of part one. Some of the actors are quite irritating though. When Ben jokes about Father Christmas, it made me giggle. The way the Doctor knew about Mondas makes me wonder if he's had an encounter with the Cybermen before. Seeing the Cybermen emerge from the snowy background is fantastic and looks great! I love They look brilliant! If you want real fun, whistle along to that credit theme!

The Cybermen are written so nicely, and speak in such a brilliant voice! They seem to be able to die very easily though. It took less than 2 minutes to kill them all. The cliffhanger was great. Much better than the first one. Hartnell doesn't really do much here though. He'll probably do more next part though!

So straight the way, the Doctor collapses, as he does at the end of part four too. The animation of part four wasn't that good, I think they could do better, like they did with The Ice Warriors. The way the Cybermen melted was quite bad, and kind of takes the creepy bit away from them for me. I thought that they were creepy because of the mask and we were left wondering what's behind the mask, but in the animation, we see the mask sort of melt. The regeneration, or renewal must have come as a massive shock to the audience of 1966 and made them wonder!

My next review will be Carnival of Monsters, and I give this one an 8/10 as it does slightly drag.