This is part of a series of reviews of Doctor Who in chronological timeline order.

Previous Story: Kippers

Nothing continues to happen and it's getting a bit annoying now. I really can't tell you what's changed between the end of the last story and the end of this one because quite frankly I don't think anything has. The Kippers are still just as vague a threat as they were before, I'm still not sure what they're supposed to look like or even be. We still don't know anything about the situation, why the Doctor and co. have been sent here, why Zoe is here, who the Kippers are and what their motivations are.

This story feels so disjointed. For the first half Jamie is trapped on a cruise liner and it's about as interesting as you'd expect as he desperately fumbles with a screen to try and get a message out for 30 minutes. The Doctor is mistrusting of Zoe for a good while before she performs some sort of contact with him and establishes that she is, in fact, Zoe. Then after that they fumble out doing who knows what. Raven is talking to her mysterious bleepy superiors again and she's sort of gone back to being the same basic character from the first set although she does get a decent character moment that hints at her changing to somewhat respect the Doctor.

The second half is more of the same although we do get a sweet little reunion between Jamie and Zoe and for a bit the gang is all back together. There's some more threat from the Kippers and some more arguing between Raven and the Doctor. There's nothing at all clever in this story like there was with The Green Man and the Shroud. The setting is just a bunch of spaceships and there's nothing at all interesting to picture like there was with the last two sets. It's just such a downgrade.

Genuinely the only thing I can praise here is the performances and those are almost always going to be good anyway. The only reason I haven't rated this lower is because of that and that alone.

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