There's a fantastic thing about The Seeds of Doom that leads into a disappointing thing. It's the design of the Krynoid, the alien that menaces the planet Earth this story. The Krynoid starts off as a pod, before infecting a human host and forcing them to go through a series of evolutions, with varying degrees of believability. The first can be seen to the left, and is my favourite of the designs. This is because you can see the actor's eye within the costume, both giving them more to act with and acting as a reminder that the creature used to be human.
The second design is essentially a repainted Axon costume from The Claws of Axos. It still works as a monster design to some extent, and is something that would probably fester in the minds of children to make them more terrified of brocolli or the like. At least, it would do so more than the final iteration of the Krynoid.
The final Krynoid is a blob. It doesn't come across as particularly frightening, although the direction from Douglas Camfield does give it some credit through shooting some of its scenes at night, leaving it in the shadows and creating an air of dread about it. But at the end of the day, it's still a blob and doesn't quite work. It's a shame as well because the design had an awful lot of potential, it just loses that potential as the story continues.
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