THIS REVIEW WAS WRITTEN PRE-BARROWMAN SCANDAL, COPIED OVER FROM THE OTHER SITE

There is probably a fascinating discourse on the nature of justice at the heart of this dull, unfunny exercise in padding, but you'd be hard pressed to find it.

All of my friends say I'm crazy for hating this episode but I just don't get the love surrounding this travesty. You may call me crazy but I would rather rewatch Orphan 55 over this. To me it would seem that the actors don't seem at all interested in this episode and that reflects through their wooden performances, although to his credit John Barrowman alone is worth a rewatch as he at least tries to inject a bit of humour in the part of the episode when he states his plan only to be brought back down to earth by the Doctor. That part of the episode notwithstanding i find myself in no great hurry to rewatch the story and always skip it when i do a rewatch of Series 1.

Whilst it was nice to see the Slitheen reused, I feel as if they were reduced to some comedic monster of the week trope with no real character development given to Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen other than the fact she wanted revenge on the Doctor for killing her family in Aliens of London/World War Three. The scene where she's running away makes me cringe every time I see it and when's she's on the 'date' with the Doctor I want to pull my hair out at all the stilted, unfunny dialogue between the usually brilliant Christopher Eccleston and Annette Badland.

Overall, I personally find this to be one of the worst stories from the RTD Era and New Who in general, I would like to forget this episode ever existed as it drags down what is a fantastic season full of spectacular high points but this is the lowest of low points and spoils my enjoyment of Series 1