Day 484: The Pirate Planet Part 1

We begin this new story with a new writer: Douglas Adams. A name which is known to millions of people worldwide, famous for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dirk Gently, and a vast array of other projects, it would appear that at one point he wrote a bit of Doctor Who on the side. It's interesting to watch this episode then, seeing how this fantastic writer started out. To be honest though, this episode has a fairly normal beginning. We've got a bit of a mystery with a planet that's disappeared, there's a cyborg pirate, a group of psychics, and the streets have precious gems lying about the place, but aside from these things, the great ideas that characterise Adams's later work aren't present, instead we get ideas that for any other writer would be rather good. Perhaps it's just that we've been spoilt by having experienced better things from Adams such that we don't fully appreciate what has been laid out in front of us. Still, it's only Part 1 and I'm sure that there will be bigger and better things to come as The Pirate Planet continues.