The Vervoids are strange creatures, plants that have become sentient and now wish to destroy all humans. They also look ridiculously rude. It's easy to see why, they wanted to go for an image of a flower in bloom, but accidentally invoked more of an image of genitalia. And whilst it's easy to look down on this moment and say that it's another example of the series going horribly wrong, I choose to look at it in another way.
We've just come off a couple of series where, if something in the story isn't up to scratch, then the entire story falls on its face. We've had disasters like Time-Flight, Arc of Infinity, The Twin Dilemma, Warriors of the Deep and Timelash where one small little problem seems to cascade into a lot of larger problems. But Vervoids doesn't go that way. Instead, we just have this problem of design of the costume, and not much else. It's not a perfect story, but it's still quite enjoyable, and that's more than can be said of the previous stories, all of which were unambiguously awful. So we're now able to see a production team finally get back on its feet, ready for all new challenges that face it and hopefully with less stories of uneven quality.
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