I'm only six episodes in to this series and already its starting to get a bit tired. "Crack of Doom" is the most pedestrian episode so far, and the first time where I've felt myself growing weary of the entire thing. Every episode is starting to feel like the same thing over and over. "Crack of Doom" is very similar to the first episode where our scientists found themselves on board the titanic. In "Crack of Doom" the ship and iceberg are replaced by an island and a volcano, and the captain of HMS Titanic is replaced by some British explorer/scientist type who is studying the volcanic readings on the island along with his daughter (an early performance from the brilliant Ellen Burstyn). And as before, we spend the episode watching Tony and Doug warning of impending disaster only for it to fall on deaf ears, before being whisked away to another time and place just before they are killed. It was good to see Burstyn here, but other than that, it was a lacklustre episode.
Review of Crack of Doom
