A finale to a season that's given us civil war, political intrigue and machinations, twists and turns of all sorts and it's.... fine.

Admittedly, this acts more as a Coda to season three than a final chapter, but even then it ends up just kind of existing. There's some great moments in here, don't get me wrong, Romana's visit to her ancestral home conjures images of Lies, not only a nice character moment, but a great bookend to this two season 'era' of the spinoff. The scene with Leela mourning Andred as well I think it quite effective, hearing her thoughts not only on Andred's death, but on what' become of Gallifrey and how he'd respond to it.

There's also some fun character stuff for Narvin here, seeing him playing catch up to a president who won't tell him anything, who he clearly doesn't see as the right choice for the position and who doesn't seem to care for him much at all.

But then the rest of it... pigrats and free time and zombies and and and.

There's a fine story in there, but it very much feels like we're seeing the plot play out, rather than experiencing it. I hate especially that because of it, I'm having to religate two of my favourite parts of this series (Brax and K9) to a mere 'and' in terms of the plot.

I like the plot, but our core cast are sidelined for most of it, and things just sort of happen to them, rather than them doing things. Also unlike previous stories where that's been the case, it doesn't feel like they're trying here, you don't get the desperate scrambles to catch up and try just about anything that you did in Mindbomb. Here they feel resigned to their roles as pawns.

Even then, you could do something interesting with that, give more focus to our characters and how they feel about everything going on, those moments we do get to just sit with a character and their thoughts are what keeps this story for being any lower for me. But there's not enough of it, the plot's got to plot.. and and and.