Sharon, our new companion, get her first outing here and gets to do..... absolutely nothing, it's like they just forgot she was there.

The wereloks are fairly bog standard monsters, but they're pretty fun for what they are and there's some good moments with them. Their initial attack infecting some people who they let get away to turn when they're on the inside, and I think the highlight of the story was Four's turning into a werelok for a minute. I like how he uses the TARDIS as a lab, it taking three months to make the cure, but him them coming back in 10 minutes real time. That whole sequence of the monster within destroying the equipment to stop him while he's fighting for control, K9 zapping him when he goes too far, is great.

And then there's the Daleks..... Their plan here just feels really off, they're using the wereloks to clear the planet, reasonable so far, but they want to turn it into a breeding ground? It's never really explained why they want to use New Earth for it and not anywhere else, if anything there's reasons given that it might not be a good idea with new Earth being smaller than Earth. Also like, is there anything wrong with Skaro at this point in continuity? And then on top of that, they want to take parts of other creatures and add them to daleks to make them even more sly or cunning or whatever they're taking, which like, goes against the entire point of the daleks?

The hypnotised werelok also just didn't work for me, he keeps too much of his personality and that to feel like he's just been hypnotised, it feels like they wanted to use one as a temporary companion, but didn't want to have to introduce a good one because that goes against them too much and so they just did this which ends up feeling a little lazy.