YMMV / Doctor Who S10 E2 "Carnival of Monsters"

• Retroactive Recognition: Vorg is played by Leslie Dwyer, who would later be best known for playing Mr. Partridge in Hi-de-Hi!.
• Special Effects Failure:
  • There's a moment in Part 4 when an Inter Minorian's bald cap completely slips loose. Director Barry Letts considered this so bad that he recut the ending for the 1981 repeat, removing most of Vorg's Shell Game. ^note This version was used for the VHS release, but the DVD and Blu-ray use the broadcast version with the "alternate ending" as a bonus feature.
  • The Drashigs are excellent monsters...when they're on film. They are considerably let down by the videotape work and CSO in the fourth episode.
  • For some reason, rather than just using stock footage of a ship, the S.S. Bernice is represented via a still photo superimposed on some footage of an empty sea.
• Values Resonance:
  • Vorg and Shirna getting stuck in a nightmarish airport security line due to xenophobia and ending up scapegoated as terrorists in a political coup works a lot better in the post-The War on Terror era of zealous airport security and refugees being blamed for terrorist attacks.
  • The Doctor's disgust with the Miniscope, as a collection of living beings kept captive and put on display purely for profit-driven entertainment, resonates with a lot more viewers following the movements to reform zoos and discontinue the use of animal acts in circuses.

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