It's such a relief to feel better. Somewhere deep inside, I suspect that people always wonder if they actually are going to get better, and then are surprised when it happens. Is that human sense of paranoia encoded too deeply to ever go entirely away? However, that's enough of that. What happened on the Seaview today, I imagine hearing you ask, whoever you are. Strange people.
Ahem.
This time, on the submarine Seaview, the vessel is off to check up on another of Admiral Nelson's hand-picked science projects. Since every one of Nelson's handpicked research teams seems to be staffed with crackpots and lunatics, it was always inevitable that something would be wrong. I'm amazed that the crew doesn't turn up each week, braced for something weird from the outset, handcuffs at the ready. What exactly is the screening process to get Nelson funding anyway? Oh, what a digression. The submarine is carrying one half of the pair of identical twins running the project, who claims to to have a telepathic connection with his brother, but who is actually long used to mind controlling his sibling and has a plan to convert their hydroponic specimens into a horde of rampaging kelp monsters...
Ah yes, the old rampaging kelp monster bit. That's the third time this week. We've not had identical twins before, though, which is nice. This is a pretty decent example of the well populated 'rampaging blokes in monster suits' subset of 'Voyage' episodes, not being too repetitive and actually being decently eerie in several instances. The sight of the kelp creatures peering out of the reactor room window was very surreal and unusual. This is such a weird series, where successive episodes of silliness can sometimes be dispelled by completely unpredictable moments of brilliance. There must have been someone somewhere in the production team, waiting for opportunities to just jump in and do interesting things when the budget and time constraints allowed.
It's a pretty good episode, all in all. Basehart is his usual brilliant self, as is Hedison, holding everything together at every opportunity, and there's a not a weak link in the acting for once. The kelp monsters are really kind of cute too. Yes, there are cute kelp monsters. Have you not heard that phrase before?
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