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What an absolutely joyful story. It's silly and absurd in all the ways I enjoy. It's hardly some masterpiece of writing, it's got extremely ridiculous performances and yet I'd go back to it over most stories any day. Having a story set in Wales properly is really fun and brings us some excellent side characters. Ray, for example, was great.

It wasn't all good side characters, Delta was really flat and uninteresting. So was Billy too for that matter. Their whole relationship felt like it came out of nowhere if I'm being honest. It's the only part of this story that makes me think it could've done with an extra part. I did really like the Bannermen though, silly as they were. Gavrok in particular is a really over-the-top villain but nonetheless an enjoyable one.

It's really interesting watching what's essentially a love letter to the 50s... from the 80s. Fascinating to see how the perception of an era has changed (or rather, not changed) in all this time. It's also an excuse for a lot of actual 50s music which was really odd as I'm so used to Classic Who being devoid of any pop culture. Speaking of music, the score was brilliant for the most part. A bit distracting in some places but again I'm used to really bland incidental music that having a genuine soundtrack like this is good enough on it's own.

Absolutely love this story.

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