Just going to be a quick one today, lads. With spoilers.

Just finished this serial. I really enjoyed it - very different from what I'm used to from that era in regards to the music, but I liked it! Felt pleasantly incongruous. There was a good balance of humour against the, you know, death. It was also spectacularly well-paced. Some of the worst fake fighting I've ever seen, though. I was under the impression for most of the serial - and still think I would have preferred this version - that there would be no aliens. It would all be fear and conspiracies - but then again, what else could I have expected from the bug-eyed monsters era of Who? (Yes, that is pretty much all of Who, I know). Still, I think they communicated the destruction that fear of the foreign can cause - and the General's madness - very well, and so overall I thoroughly enjoyed this serial.