Thursday, April 19, 2012

Naive Avengersthon - 62. The Cybernauts

This is one of the two Avengers episodes that I'd heard of before I started this 'thon. I had high hopes of it, and at first I wasn't disappointed, with a series of electronics industry bigwigs getting offed by an unseen, possibly mechanical visitor, and an obvious but stylish red herring in the form of John 'Sondergaard' Hollis (returning from Warlock) and his karate class. Katherine 'Sabetha' Schofield gets a good karate-ing at the hands of Mrs Peel, which I enjoyed.

Then we have a great meeting between Steed and the wheelchair-using Dr Armstrong (Michael 'Toymaker' Gough), head of United Automation in his computerised office. He even sends Steed away with a present that isn't what it seems - it's as if Tobias Vaughn is impersonating Davros in order to carry out the evil scheme in Robot.

But, like The Master Minds, once the story has shown its hand, it doesn't do much with it except give us runaround and fighting. So I went away unsatisfied in terms of the episode itself, though it was good to confirm its vaunted similarity with least two major Doctor Who stories.

Previously seen - lots of people: Burt 'Lin Futu' Kwouk from Lobster Quadrille, Bernard 'Gulliver' Horsfall, Ronald 'Commander Radnor' Leigh-Hunt, Frederick 'Sorenson' Jaeger from Death of a Great Dane, John 'the Time Lord in Genesis of the Daleks' Franklyn-Robbins and Gordon Whiting from The Golden Eggs.

No comments:

Post a Comment