Our second trip in the so called “New Earth trilogy” has a lot of fun campery going for it. Sexy Rose/Cassandra hybrid, violent cat nuns, our leads soaking wet (with medicine of course). It’s a romp and shines brightly whilst all the moving parts are whizzing about but as it starts to wrap up, the resolution reveals itself to be some of the flimsiest, ill conceived nonsense the series has ever offered up - it fails to stick the landing.

Nanogenes could pass on a cure to all the gas mask zombies because an actual explanation had been written and seeded throughout the script. That does not mean that someone newly cured of all the new world’s illnesses can pass a cure on instantaneously just through touch. And hang on… why were the patients in the hospital not being cured instantly, since they are being fed the same intravenous drips?

Okay. I’ve lost the plot. The point is that’s it’s a a load of fun and the Face of Boe is cool and mysterious. And has a future message for The Doctor that he won’t spill right now.

The 10th Doctor and Rose have amazing chemistry and the jokes land throughout. All in all it’s a lot of fun. Cassandra gets the most beautiful death scene too. That’s where the emotional heart of the story lies, the real conclusion.