The Fifteenth Doctor #04

'Caged' (2024) from BBC New Series Adventures.

Unfortunately I don't have much to say on this and it just didn't particularly interest me on many fronts. The whole first half feels purposefully vague and confusing in a frustrating way, and once everything narratively lines up it's all a bit whatever really. I get what it's doing and it's quite a typical Doctor Who plot, but I just found the main companion to be annoying - plus I kept picturing her like the red panda from Turning Red and that's never a good thing. Some okay stuff here and there: I like the idea of the octopus-type race although their names were infuriating, same with the panda people also really, and I like the general concept of a planet which is a laboratory for an alien race, but it just didn't interest me that much in execution.