Day 176: The Abominable Snowmen Episode 3

Professor Travers is an nice character in this story, due to his interesting motives. Positioning himself in the Himalayas in order to find the Yeti (note how I'm stoically avoiding spelling Abominable over these entries because I'm pretty sure that I'll misspell it at some point), he is a driven man. He's also quick to make assumptions, as he accuses the Doctor of murder, and Jamie and Victoria as accomplices, but he soon realises that he was mistaken. And from then on, he is treated as an ally, which is a really interesting idea, because it means that once again, we have a character who was at first a villain, but has now been placed on the side of good, giving the audience the impression that development has occurred with the character and that they have all gotten to know each other far more quickly than they actually have. It's a nice economy in storytelling, although there is the issue that this story has only just reached the halfway point, and sometimes cutting down on plot could be a bad thing when there's plenty to go around, and we might end up leaving other episodes hungry.