This was a wild ride.  A fantastical experience I would consider a perfect episode were it not for an ending that kind of felt flat for me.  There's a lot I was dwelling on watching these episodes for the first time.  First I marvelled at the sheer strength of Ace and the Doctor as leads for this show.  Even in a story like this where Ace spends a lot of time isolated, she easily drives and can carry the story on her own.  I was also impressed when I learned that this serial was faced with a lot of production issues including a full-blown studio shutdown.  You really wouldn't be able to tell unless you knew ahead of time.  Sure, you can definitely spot the low budget and cheesy effects, but that stuff is pretty normal for Doctor Who.

It's the ending that doesn't stick well with me.  The Gods of Ragnarok are set up well throughout the whole story in a way I quite liked, with this family in the audience growing more and more sinister as the episodes wear on, but once we see their true forms, well, I just can't defend that.  They don't look great.  The Gods look like dudes in frumpy costumes.  My suspension of disbelief was broken.

Everything else is such mad fun it hardly even matters.  This might be one of the best seasons in all of Doctor Who, and The Greatest Show in the Galaxy is a great example of why.  There's a werewolf, a robot bus driver, and Colonel Mustard all in this story and I have absolutely no idea why, but I am glad they are there.  It's fun, silly, sinister, a little unhinged, and full of fun little bits of dialogue that make Season 25, Ace, and the Doctor all something special.  It's not perfect.  But The Greatest Show in the Galaxy does kind of live up to its name.