As mentioned before, we have to allow a certain amount of coincidence for the sake of drama, but it will be pointed out as something wrong when it stretches credulity too far.
Like here...
- The Kastrians send Eldrad millions of miles into space, presumably in a direction where they know there aren't any inhabited planets,
- then blow him up so that not a single fragment will survive,
- yet a significant chunk of him manages to end up, intact, on an inhabited world,
- which is advanced enough to have restorative nuclear power,
- and the bit which has survived just happens to hold the ring which he needs to regenerate himself,
- and the person who finds the bit with the ring just happens to be accompanying the only person on the planet who has a space / time machine that can get him home...
Sarah's position after the explosion, safe under a huge big block, is also a bit hard to swallow.
On hearing the warning siren, Sarah fails to recognise it as an alarm - despite it sounding for a while as they stroll along.
Why do they run in the direction they do, it they don't know what's going on? Wouldn't it have made more sense to run back to the TARDIS? We later see that the TARDIS was quite untouched by the explosion.
The hand of Eldrad which Sarah finds in the blast looks slight and feminine - despite the fact that in his natural form, when he was executed, he was a big burly male character.
How could Eldrad have programmed his ring to mentally take over people when he died 150 million years ago - when there weren't any human beings?
Eldrad has Sarah take his hand to the nuclear power station - all the way into the outer reactor chamber. It even has Dr Carter possessed so that he can protect her and ensure she fulfils her mission. But once in the chamber, Sarah just sits down and Eldrad is content to have his regenerated hand wriggle around for a bit - allowing the authorities to remove her, and take the hand away from where it wants to be. It is only later that it takes over someone else to be taken inside the reactor proper.
Why did it wait?
Since when would bombing a nuclear power station ever make things better than if it was going to go critical on its own?
The RAF missiles should have still destroyed the station's structure. There ought to be a great big hole in the roof at the very least. It appears here that Eldrad consumes the energy of an explosion which never happens in the first place.
The dome on the surface of Kastria appears to be quite unscathed despite 150 million years of blizzard passing across it. Its power planet even comes on again after all those millions of years. If they had this sort of technology, why did they meekly submit and allow themselves to die out?
Could no-one in 150 million years do anything to improve their situation?
They sent Eldrad off into space to be executed - so if they had spaceships why did they not use them to leave Kastria and set up home somewhere else?
A number of lethal traps are left - just in case Eldrad ever returned. If these things are fatal to Kastrians, why go to all the trouble of sending him millions of miles into space, with all its attendant risks of failure to obliterate properly, when they could have just executed him on site?
Why do they do so many things which anticipate Eldrad's return, when the whole point of their execution method is that he should never be in any position to do so?
It's as if they knew they were doomed to fail, which makes their failure to abandon the planet, or use a more certain means of execution, all the more odd.
Eldrad seems to think his homeworld will be just like it was yesterday, even still under King Rokon's rule, despite 150 million years having elapsed. He's angry to learn everyone is dead. But he sabotaged the planet's protective barriers. What did he think would happen?
You name it - Eldrad invented it. On Kastria he claims he was responsible for everything. Why did the Kastrians turn against him, after he had given them so much - even their physical forms? For once, he's a super-villain who might well be justified in his actions.
The very worst thing about The Hand of Fear - Lis Sladen leaves the show as a regular. Doesn't come much worse than that.
No comments:
Post a Comment