WELL .

So first of all, Rani return. I've been in these trenches for 5 years and others have been here far longer, I'd like to congratulate everyone on the one time we've been right about a character being the Rani since 2005.

Beyond that... Jesus Christ. The Interstellar Song Contest is an entertainingly-written episode, with some pretty strong moments.

It also has some godawful politics. I'm not trying to say Doctor Who is never political (objectively untrue statement), nor is it a terrible surprise that the message lands somewhere between "horrifically tone-deaf" and "outright bad" (neither are without precedent). Still, for a story that feels like is was written by someone who understands Israel's links to Eurovision - like with the Poppy Honey/Moroccan Oil parallels - I truly cannot fathom how they ended up at "the Doctor can beat a guy up with no real consequences and have the people who's home was razed to the ground tried singing about it?"