The Daemons (1971) Review

I know the Weeping Angels are supposed to be scary, but this is ridiculous

The Daemons makes no sense whatsoever. Everything that happens and I do mean everything has no basis on logic. It's a minefield of plot holes.

PLOT

The Master is the head of a satanic cult trying to make contact with the Devil. Need I say more?

CHARACTERS

The main characters give all their usual performances, although I must note that Benton and Yates get to participate in the plot, which is very nice. They make a good double act actually.

In the later episodes, there's a Morris dancer who seems peculiarly obsessed with being the Master's pet and stopping the Doctor. For the love of me, I couldn't figure out when he came into the story and what his motivation was.

The Master himself is a bit odd, at one time promising great power and at the second, scaring the villagers into following him, making his previous claims a bit pointless.

Miss Hawthorne was kind of nice in a proto-Harriet Jones kind of way. The spat between the Doctor and her was funny. Science! Magic! Science!

NOTES

*There's a hilarious exchange of dialogue between Yates and the Brigadier at one point where Yates reveals to him that the Master is involved and he sounds ridiculously chirpy. Brilliant.

*Where exactly do the Daemons fit in with the Beast in the Tennant era?

*I'm pretty sure the hole in the heat barrier is completely impossible.

*Pertwee's final line is absolutely dreadful. "You see, Jo? There's magic in the world after all." Ugh.

*I love that a remote control equals magic in 1971.

*Lolz, that gargoyle.

BEST LINE

"Jenkins, chap with the wings there, five rounds rapid." Could it be anything else?

CONCLUSION

What the devil did I just watch?

So that was Season 8. It was horrible. The Mind Of Evil was alright and Colony In Space wasn't too bad either, but the rest could go into the garbage bin. The Pertwee era is taking a sudden dive.