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Now I quite like The Invisible Enemy. It's no masterpiece, but it's really good fun. It has a lot of charm; I liked seeing K9 trundle about to absurdly epic music, or the main enemy being taken way more seriously than their design deserved. All that is only charming because it was a low-budget BBC production from the 70s. This is a modern story and it should be written to modern standards. Unfortunately, it's a really dull, trad Doctor Who story. I didn't look at the writer going into it, but I could tell it was Jonathan Morris just purely based on the fact that it was a lazy sequel to random Classic Doctor Who story. It also screamed "40 year old man writes about the internet".

I'm not really getting the point behind bringing back Hex, only for him to essentially be a completely different person. I'm sure it'll come to some sort of satisfying resolution but it definitely takes me out of the story a little. It's also the fact that he doesn't get much of a role either, he's possessed for essentially the entire story, a telltale sign the writer has no idea what to do with the character.

Overall, it's not great but I hardly expected anything all that remarkable from a lazy sequel to The Invisible Enemy anyway.

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