It is not often that I am incensed to make a review of any kind on a story here. Not because I don't like stories I am watching, far from it, but it is rare that one of them reaches out and grabs me with such verve.

I has been quite excited for this story for a long time, I found what little I knew about it to intrigue me to high heavens. A companionless story in the classic era, a new incarnation of the Master, a Gallifreyan political thriller, it seemed too good to be true. Not only was it good enough to be true, it blew me away.

Starting with a text crawl and a flash forward, the story immediately set the mood as something different, something that felt foreign to Who prior to this. Plus the final reveal that it was Goth attacking him in the Matrix was wonderful, not necessarily surprisingly, but well built up to.

I had always been a fan of Robert Holmes stories, but this one is my favorite of his, and really for the time being this story is my favorite of Classic Who. It is so well paced, I don't think anything should be cut, and it feels like a perfect candidate of a story to show to a fan of the revival.