Continuing my full Doctor Who rewatch (previously: The Aztecs). Watched on Britbox.
The Sensorites was my least favorite serial so far, and a huge letdown immediately following the delightful The Aztecs. The sets and costumes are shabby, the plot is thin, and it also seems notably more childish than most of what came before (which I grant is a weird thing to say for a 1960s teatime family show). I miss the alternating sci-fi/historical pattern, which was long gone by the time I discovered the show during the Tom Baker era.
Many of the cast members overact very theatrically, especially a weird fourth-wall break, where an apparently psychic human character directly tells the audience which aliens are good guys or bad guys. Indeed a key plot point is that the Sensorites all look alike, even amongst themselves, which had apparently never occurred to them until a bunch of all different-looking humanoids showed up.
The Sensorites may have identical upside-down beards, but they do have fine penmanship.
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