Resurrect your darlings

If the first box set was a romp, the second was a grind. Don't take that as an entirely negative appraisal. It was like...rightio, you've gotten to know the protagonists and antagonists, now the latter are going to put the former through hell, presumably so our heroes can save the day in the fourth box set (after additional science-fictional complications and suffering in the third). Thumbs up for Stewart, Osgood and Bambera. Thumbs down for the dull Dominators and crap Quarks.