Ghost Light: Part Two

The second episode carries on with the mocking of Darwin sceptics. Josiah Smith makes a monkey out of Reverend Matthews.

Ace is attacked by two monsters, they looks like a product of some kind of experimentation. Lucky for Ace, Nimrod arrives to save her. There is actually a spaceship below the house, only the Doctor has an inkling as to why it arrived on Earth.

Meanwhile the Doctor awakens Inspector Mackenzie from Scotland Yard whose body in inside a drawer. He has been asleep for two years and is now very hungry. He had originally arrived to investigate the disappearance of George Pritchard, the owner of the house.

The Doctor also makes a deal with a woman called Control who has been held captive in the spaceship by Josiah. He is not human but is now metamorphizing to human form.

This is a very cryptic story, even more so than episode one. It seems no one was interested in explaining the story to the audience. It seems the ship arrived to catalogue all the specimens in the planet.

While Part One had atmosphere. Part Two showed up the limitations of studio recordings. The outside shots and special effects of the lightning were too obvious of a studio setting. Especially when Ace opens the drapes to startle Josiah Smith's sensitivity to light. It was just darkness outside of the window.

A trip to Java, it's almost like a twisted children's story the way it's told, very dark and sinister, but so amazingly imaginative and complex.

The content is so incredibly rich, theories of evolution, strange beings in the cellar, and the household members killing their guests, sending them on a one way trio to Java. It's the complexity of the story that appeals to me so much, nothing is black and white, I know some of it was scaled down, but you can put the pieces together, it's so imaginative.

Those extras look amazing, I love the maids, very sinister. Ace looks wonderful in her various outfits.

I can imagine it isn't everyone's cup of tea, but I love it. 10/10