This one was not good.  There were actors dressed up as giant ants, weird woodlouse-type creatures and giant butterflies. The actors were trying to do weird actions and intonations, I guess to appear otherworldly, but it came across as pretty terrible amateur dramatics, and the story went all over the place, but it was basically at first a war between the butterflies and the ants, but then morphed into the ants being controlled by a larger entity called the Animus.  6 episodes was far too many episodes to cover this story.

We get a proper encounter with the Animus by the end (in the last episode), and this really lifted things.  The voice acting and decisions made on how to present this weird, large entity (Vicki describes it as a giant spider, but it’s got legs, tentacles and suchlike, and you feel you’re only seeing part of it) were good choices – this section was rather good.  It’s definitely got something Lovecraftian about it and reminds you of the ‘ancient ones’ in Lovecraft lore – and this point is raised in the Wikipedia pages on this episode.  This end section raised the score a point and a half.

Rating: Bad 2/10