Just finished Paradise Towers. And I have no say this is a definite low point for McCoy so far. Not his acting of course, it's just the thing's so bad.
First off, it's terribly anachronistic. On the one hand you have these gangs of female hoodlums runing around naming themselves after signs and fire escapes and stupid things like that, and not knowing what "boys" are, and then you have regular residents who live in comparatively nice, clean, well equiped apartments. Even though you have these gangs runing about and the security runing after them, old people just randomly walk about the corridors without problems.
Then we find out a pair of the residents are cannibals as they try to eat Mel, but the whole scene is over so quickly that it makes the buildup rather pointless. Funny thing, after the two die by being sucked down a waste shaft, the Chief Controler tries to bribe their neighbour to not cause a panic by offering them their apartment - the apartment two mysterious deaths just occured in.
And then we have the way in which the Doctor escapes the guards the first time, which, as escape plans go, relies heavily on both of the rule obsessed guards being monumentally stupid and not knowing what's in their own rulebook.
Hereabout a whole slew of unanswered questions come to mind: why would anyone give Kroagnon any kind of work seeing as he is known to violently resist leaving a building once he's finished building it. Or how the residents of the tower trapped his brain in the basement. Or why the Chief Caretaker was calling the machine thing that held it his "baby pet" and kept feeding people to it.
And the final nail in the coffin for this serial is Richard Briers' acting. Now he handles the role of the Chief Caretaker well enough, but as soon as he gets possesed by Kroagnon…..Jesus CHRIST is his acting bad. It's by far the worst performance I've seen so far on the show and I dare say it'd be rather hard to try and top it. Worse yet, we're evidently supposed to be somehow indimidated by the guy who goes around mumbling and mugging and......I can't really put his acting into words well enough.
Oh and the Doctor's big plan to defeat Kroagnon was to make him turn round so he could shove him down a hole.
Certainly worse then Happiness Patrol, but better then Nightmare of Eden, because it's ending made literally no sense and was illogical and non sensical in a whole different way.
! Genesis of the Daleks
Pyramids of Mars
City of Death
The Pilot
The Three Doctors
Robots of Death
The Brain of Morbius
The Face of Evil
Spearhead from Space
Day of the Daleks
The Curse of Peladon
The Mutants
The Daemons
The Silurians
Inferno
Colony in Space
The Green Death
The Ambassadors of Death
Revenge of the Cybermen
Terror of the Zygons
The Sea Devils
Ghost Light
Dragonfire
The Curse of Fenric
The Sontaran Experiment
Planet of Evil
The Time Warrior
The Time Monster
The Claws of Axos
The Mind of Evil
Terror of the Autons
Meglos
Carnival of Monsters
The Creature from the Pit
Happiness Patrol
Paradise Towers
Nightmare of Eden
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