I don’t think Alan has ever seen an episode of Doctor Who before, but the things he explores here, and the perspective he has on a long living character like the Doctor is just so interesting that I look straight through the horrible mischaracterization here.

It’s so fascinating, because it’s so much a Doctor Who story, but it’s also a story that could impossibly star the actual Doctor. “I should stop adventuring and settle down” (let us ignore the fourteenth Doctor…), and the creatures who just try to live are worse than the Daleks? I already said so, this writer has obviously never seen Doctor Who before. But the concept of the ‘monsters’, the explorations of fear, the twists in the story, the tone and everything, it’s so undeniably incredibly Doctor Who.

This thing has no business being so good, but it is, somehow, even though it gets so much wrong. An almost indescribable wonder of a story.