Day 322: The Mutants Episode 5

It's worth talking about another character within The Mutants: Cotton. Cotton is an unremarkable character, the friendly soldier who we've met tonnes of times before in various guises across fiction. There is one thing, however, that differentiates Cotton from his peers. He is portrayed by one of the most appalling actors in the world. Every line that comes forth from his mouth is completely unbelievable. Every time he is in a scene your eyes are drawn to him, not because he's got anything interesting to say, but instead because he defies all human acting abaility and you desire to see more of him to see just how badly he will perform.

And in a way, Cotton sums up The Mutants. Because there's nothign wrong with the idea of Cotton. We've seen characters like him before and they've worked somewhat well. It's just that somewhere between the ideas stage and the transmission of the programme something went horribly wrong and we end up with something that could have been better. The ideas of The Mutants are sound, it's just that thye get lost in a sea of things not turning out the way that they should have. And there's one very important idea that we've yet to touch on, that we'll look at as we approach the conclusion of The Mutants.