I'll admit, taking a month long break probably didn't help my connecting to this story, but bearing in mind it was released a month after the prior installment, that shouldn't affect as much as it did.

While there's certianly some interesting stuff in here, especially with Karlendorf, and Susan's current relationship with the daleks, this story feels like another load of things just happening. Meandering to get to the point. In a great story that can be used to build tension and suspense, here, for me, it unfortunately feels aimless.

I remember ending my last few reviews saying I wasn't really all that big on the stories themselves, but with the cliffhangers, I was excited to see what turns the story would take next, where we'd end up, and while the cliffhanger at the end of this does intrigue me, well. Fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice, shame on you, fool me thrice... and you get Dalek War Chapter Two.

In short, this is continuing to be a story that I just wish I liked a lot more than I actually do, and while I'm going to keep listening to see if it improves, I'm done getting my hopes up that it will.