I found this one to be a bit middling, unfortunately. It was a great spectacle, a lot of excellent set pieces, some neat effects, and of course the return of both Susan and the Rani -- but unfortunately, there wasn't a lot of meat to the plot and it ended up delivering quite a reductive message about activism. Did not enjoy that the two sides of the coin were mass murder on the scale of trillions OR singing a song about your destroyed world. I recognize that this length of episode doesn't lend itself well to nuance, but c'mon. The side characters were a bit flat as well, aside from Cora.

On the positives, got a bit of a darker Doctor moment here than we've had for most of Gatwa's run, which I enjoyed. We also got a very camp moment with the confetti cannon, though I would suggest that it didn't need to be quite so lampshaded. The soundtrack was great, as one would hope from a Eurovision-themed episode, and I thought that the various alien designs were done well, too. I can certainly see how this became the most expensive episode of the show, but sadly 'more expensive' doesn't always mean 'better.'

Also, Trion mention! Turlough fans rise up!