![]() I would lean towards Gwent having been sailing the cosmos for millennia, with a string of Companions, but the waters are muddy… The script seems to offer lines in support of both. I’m royally confused over whether Companion is the first of his kind, or merely the latest of many. Leo McKern’s wig and face fungus is fooling no one. I wonder … when Companion dies, and his head drops a foot – “THUNK!” – onto the table, was that a silly instruction from the director or was it McKern just having outrageous fun with his part? Finally there’s an excellent turn by Leo McKern, outacting the rest of the cast. Then there’s the novelty of the Gwent model. The scale of the set! Those three storey airlock doors set the tone as impossibly grandiose. Some stuff I really enjoy in this episode. You think he’d have some powers of persuasion and negotiation by now. ![]() ![]() Ah! One of the great shouty performances from Koenig. ![]()
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