Season 7 @50. Watching
an episode a week you can see this is a slim storyline
which has an unfinished or rushed sense to it. The way the Doctor and Liz knock
up a machine overnight seems too perfunctory with the resulting device not
being convincingly strong enough to defeat such a powerful creature as the
Nestenes. What actually even happens there? How do those globes help `create`
the Nestene? The concept of the globes suddenly seems out of kilter with what
we’re seeing- we’ve been told this final one is the Swarm Leader but its just a
globe like the others and the Doctor has worked out that it contains nothing
sentient. Channing places it on a receptacle and some noises happen. We see
something moving in the front of the glass tank yet the tentacles that later
emerge are surely the wrong scale for the whole creature? The thing is there’s
been plenty of time and opportunity to smooth out these edges.
