Day 334: Carnival of Monsters Episode 1

This episode has a very interesting structure. When it begins, we see an alien world with a society reasonably different to our own (which will almost certainly be looked at in a future entry). There, a showman and his glamorous assistant arrive to put on a show for them. Meanwhile, the Doctor and Jo arrive on a ship in the Indian Ocen in the 1920's, and discover a plesiosaurus as well as some incredibly odd behaviour coming from the occupants of the ship. These two plotlines have no connection to eachother so far in the story, being completely independent of one another. This allows for a stronger mystery to be built up for the audience, as we now not only have the fact that there are strange goings on in the ship in the 1920's, but there is also the fact that we can expect that the two plotlines will have to converge at some point and therefore the audience is in a state of wonder as to how the writer, in this case Robert Holmes, will be able to pull this off. We'll find out over the coming episodes as we look at this veritable Carnival of Monsters!