This is it we now in the week of the sixtieth anniversary specials with Doctor Who having a very busy week this week. As not only do we have the start of the sixtieth anniversary specials to look forward to but we also have the debut of new colorized reedit of the very first daleks serial and well I thought that i'd review some more classic Doctor Who for you all and so then join me as I review the episode that introduces us to a new companion with the episode in question being called simply just "The Face Of Evil" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is when The Doctor finds himself landing on a jungle planet he finds himself having to help to the planets cave people like inhabitants and save them from a computer that has a split personality. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about thew 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 all that bad as this episodes plot was genuinely really quite engaging and was at times also really quite entertaining and well written when it really wanted to be as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode is Tom Baker as The Doctor and the voice of Xoanon and Louise Jameson as Leela. Also starring in this episode is David Garfield as Neeva , Victor Lucas as Andor , Brendan Price as Tomas , Leslie Schofield as Calib , Colin Thomas as Sole , Lloyd McGuire as Lugo , Leon Eagles as Jabel , Mike Elles as Gentek , Peter Baldock as An Acolyte , Rob Edwards as the voice of Xoanon , Pamela Salem as the voice of Xoanon , Anthony Frieze as the voice of Xoanon and Roy Herrick as the voice of Xoanon.
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 tn in all honesty I 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 really good. Which for this show isn't really all that new as alot of this shows episodes contain some really good acting in them with this episode being no exception as we do get to see some truly wonderful acting in this episode with this being helped by the fact that not only is this episodes made up of some mostly good actors but it's also due to the fact that the script for this episode is so good that all the episodes have to do is just the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally.
As I mentioned at the start of this review this is the episode that sees the introduction of the character of Leela. I have to admit that only just based of off this episode and this episode alone Leela does seem like a pretty fun character with er more having street smarts and battle smarts which does put her at odds with the doctor's more pacifist ways of doing things and that is something that does create an interesting dynamic between the two characters and giving her a bit of an attitude does go along way to making her seem like she's a really un character as it means that she's not willing to take no for an answer and is more wiling to do what she wants to do just because she can do which is something that Doctor Who companion doesn't typically have.
Even tho both this episode and the previous episode have The Doctor be without a companion we don't really get to see just how that effects his personality. Which is a shame because as we all know when The Doctor goes without a companion for so long he basically starts acting like The Master with The Doctor needing a companion not only to talk to but also to remind him of his humanity which makes it all the more shocking that this episode didn't have him close to acting how The Master acts as by this point he'd been without Sarah Jane Smith for quite sometime and as such it would be really reasonable to assume that he would start acting like a villain as he's really had no one there to remind of his humanity.
While I do like the idea of the planet in this episode being one that The Doctor has visited before this episode. This episode doesn't go all the way with it as instead of it being a known planet in the world of Doctor Who it's instead one that we haven't heard of or even seen until this episode which means that the episode looses alot of it's emotional impact as it would have been much more better if the planet that this episodes takes place on was one that we'd seen before now like Skaro for example as then we'd know the planet and seeing how The Doctor had a negative impact on the planet would be all the more impactful as we know just evil a planet like Skaro could be and even was before The Doctor got involved in the first place.
The cliffhanger ending of the end of part one is said to be one the best Doctor Who cliffhangers for most of the classic era. While this cliffhanger isn't as good as say the end of The Daleks episode one it is a really good cliffhanger as it leaves you wondering why The Doctor's face is in the side of a mountain and that is something that sets up a mystery for the remaining three episodes but at the same time it's not really a cliffhanger that makes you want to watch the next episode either which is something that the ending for The Daleks part one did do but with that being said if someone was to say that they really loved this cliffhanger ending I would totally understand why as it is a very striking image and it really is a really very well done cliffhanger as well.
Now then while I cannot for the absolutely life of me remember what this episodes grand total running time even was I do that this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of roughly one hour and thirty minuets. With this story being four episodes long which is a bit of an issue as there's plenty of story there to cover at least five or six episodes and with that extra time the episodes could have developed more of characters and even shown us just how the relationship between The Doctor and Leela was going to be moving forward and showing them form some sort of a bond with each other both of which are key to showing us why Leela is going to be The Doctor's latest companion but I will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it.
So now then as this is an action how that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action 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 action that's actually featured /presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that. As it does give us a chance to see how Leela would be able to handle herself in a fight and while the action in this episode isn't as good as it perhaps could have been it's alot better then what it really could have been as well as the action in classic Doctor Who is never really that good and yet to see an episode that does some pretty good action in it just goes to show that the makers of this era of the show know how to do some really good looking action scenes in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this was a really solid and I can see why alot of Doctor Who fans seem to really like this episode but at the same time this isn't the best Tom Baker Doctor Who episode either 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 earns itself a grand old score of exactly an 8 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 Amazon . Co . Uk , the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episodes that I used in this very review being Google Images simply just due to the fact that alot of the images that are on Google Images are all really fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.