Doctor Who fans since i've such a good time at taking a look back at some of the classic Doctor Who animations. As such I thought that i'd take a look at another classic Doctor Who animation with this serial also being the final episode for two companions and so then join me as I review the episode that sees the departure of two classic Doctor Who companions with the episode in question being called simply just "The Faceless Ones" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is after they land at Gatwick Airport The Doctor , Ben , Polly and Jamie discover something that's far more sinister is going on. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad with this episodes plot being quite engaging and quite entertaining in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode is Patrick Troughton as The Doctor , Anneke Wills as Polly and Michael Craze as Ben Jackson. Also starring in this episode is Frazer Hines as Jamie McCrimmon , Colin Gordon as Commandant , Donald Pickering as Blade , Wanda Ventham as Jean Rock , Pauline Collins as Samantha Briggs , Bernard Kay as Inspector Crossland , George Selway as Meadows , Gilly Fraser as Ann Davidson , Victor Winding as Spencer , Christopher Tranchell as Jenkins , Peter Whitaker as Inspector Gascoigne , Barry Wilsher as Heslington , Madalena Nicol as Nurse Pinto and Leonard Trolley as Supt. Reynolds.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. With the acting that we got in this episode being really good an the actors turning in some really good performances in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Just like with alot of the recent Doctor Who animations that i've reviewed I cannot find out what company did the actual animation for this episode. Which is a shame because this episodes animation was really top notch and it was a sign that alot more effort was being put into the actual animation that we got in these Doctor Who animations and this episode is a really good example of that in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
As I mentioned at the start of this review this episode did see the departure of both Ben Polly and well to say that there departure wasn't handled very well at all would be a huge understatement. Since they are missing for a huge portion of this episodes storyline and so then there's no build up to their departure at all which means that when they do decide to leave the TARDIS for good it comes out of nowhere in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
This episode did try to set a new companion in the character of Samantha Briggs however due to the actress not wanting to do a regular role in a long running TV series the character was very quickly written out of the show for good. Which is such a shame because this character had some really good chemistry with both The Doctor and Jamie and it would have been fun to see how her spunky and fiery personality clashes with that of both The Doctors and Jamie's personality in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
I really did like this episodes villains since they aren't motivated by doing anything evil they are instead motivated to do what they are doing in order to save their race. Which does make these villains characters come across as being alot more human and likable since all they are doing is trying to survive and nothing more then that which is a nice change of pace from seeing aliens trying to take the over the world in my freaking opinions anyways /at least.
Now then while I cannot for the absolutely life of me remember whatever this films grand total running time even was I do know that for a fact that this film had a grand total rough running time of roughly two hours. Which is a bit on the long side for an episode like this one to last since you very easily could have told this episodes storyline in well under one hour ad thirty minuets which would have worked much better to this stories advantage in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
So now then as you can most likely tell i'm doing this review based of off the coloured version of this episode. Since this now gives me something more to talk about and well I really did like the colors in this episode since they really did help sell me on the fact that this episode as being set in the mid sixties and it really does help that all of the colours in this episode really do pop and is a visual treat for the eyes to see in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this is a rather solid episode of Doctor Who but it's handling of two companions leaving the show should have been handled alot better and those characters shouldn't have straight up disappeared from the episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode erns itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the wonderful Google Images since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on freaking Google Images are all fairly freaking high in freaking quality and as well as being very fairly freaking high in definition.