We have the concluding story to the penultimate box set of the series, the Doctor and Valarie have infiltrated their way into a religious support group where parents send those who’ve sinned (displayed homosexuality) to confess and receive redemption, and this redemption comes in the form of mechanical suits that will adjust their minds accordingly so they will never commit these acts of heresy again.

This is the first Big Finish story to feature the Cybus Cybermen introduced in Series 2 of Modern Who, complete with the stomping sound effects, the specific voice pattern and even that corny “delete” catchphrase. It’s basically giving the Eleventh Doctor the Cyberman story he should’ve had on TV, it’s amazing to think with all the great episodes of the Eleventh Doctor era, he really drew the short straw with the three main villains of Doctor Who, obviously never getting an encounter with the Master, we’ve already talked about his history with the Daleks and the Cybermen episodes were arguably worse! The less said about James Corden defeating the Cybermen with love the better!

So Sins of the Flesh much like Victory of the Doctor gives us that excellent Cyberman story the Eleventh Doctor deserved, one where they use religion to manipulate those who fear their children’s developing same-sex feelings into giving them those children to “make them better” something that sadly a lot of younger people can recognise. It’s some very heavy-going subject matter that the story manages to carry beautifully and respectfully while still being an entertaining Cyberman story and while the Cybus versions were never my personal favourites, the nostalgic kid inside me did love hearing those familiar sound effects and voicework.