Day 26: The Keys of Marinus

There's a moment that is completely and utterly ridiculous in this story, wherein the leader of the Voord, Yartek, decides that what's necessary for him to do is to dress up in the robes of the previous guard of the "Conscience of Marinus", over his wetsuit. It highlights the major problem with the Voord as a monster, their design is not that of the actual creatures, it is instead that of a wetsuit. It is possible that Terry Nation wrote this with the intent that they get out of their wetsuits, as to be somewhat more believable, however the point remains that someone, either on the writing side or the production side, thought that these could be monsters that could scare the kiddies. And whilst they are in a philisophical sense monsters as they are men who seek to take control of their world, they are also just men in rubber suits, and somewhat ridiculous rubber suits at that. Perhaps somewhat fortunately, this is the only televised appearance of the Voord, as if they landed on another planet with their wetsuits, only to discover that it hasn't even heard of the concept of water, let alone oceans, then that would stretch credibility. But it's clear that the Voord were, like all the other monsters, only intended for the singular appearance. And this is something that indicates that we are in an interesting period of Doctor Who, where the writing of monsters was never done with the intent that they could come back at a later point, even the writer of this episode, Terry Nation, had no real intention of bringing back the Daleks, and it was only when he discovered that they were popular that he thought that it might be a nice idea to have them return. So the Voord are consigned to just be men in rubber suits that happened to like wearing these rubber suits so much that even when in disguise they'll wear them underneath their disguise, and they shall never return.