Day 38: Guests of Madame Guillotine

It is nice to see how var these characters have come in their travels. In this episode, Barbara and Susan are captured and put in a gaol cell. Barbara casually remarks about being captured by the cavemen in the first serial, but in this case it's remarkably different. There, Barbara was having a nervous breakdown, unable to cope with being out of her time period, and it was up to the other travellers, mainly Ian, to get them out of their predicament. Here, she's busy formulating an escape plan, and taking charge of the situation, as if being captured by revolutionary Frenchmen was just another Monday for her, which given all she's been through, is not too far from the truth. Susan on the other hand, is reduced to a gibbering wreck, crying about rats, and how they'll never get out of the cell, and they'll be killed. It's truly disappointing to see this happen, because Susan was so well written in the last serial, and to see hew reduced to this is showing that maybe it is time that we moved on from her character.