The first shot of episode one gets things off to a super-auspicious start with a close-up of a two-dimensional yin-yang symbol made of only gray, jeez. A boring zero of an actor (or just “placeholder”) and some blond girl are chosen to be “companions of the Krotons,” which is supposed to be a good thing but leads to no fun, arguments, apparent exhaustion and death by acid gas. The Tardis arrives in, heavy sigh, another quarry that’s apparently on Tatooine and the Doctor likes the smell of smog. They discover a model city made from wedges of swiss cheese and walk all the way from the outdoor quarry to the stage door. Oh hey look, that guy from The Brain Of Morbius and his impossibly tall forehead are in this one - you remember, that one story, where he was trying to put that brain in t