I love this story! It's funny and the tone is goofy, but the intrigue is also interesting enough to keep you curious and concerned. The side characters are great—Borusa and the politicians are suitably aloof and uncaring, Andred is delightfully chaotic, and Rodan is believably clever yet sheltered. Leela gets to be a leader. a few small things bother me, like the Doctor's hypocritical use of a horrifying gun and the ridiculous set design that looks like a cross between a claustrophobic basement and a preschool, but they're mostly easy to overlook.

My only big issues—and the reason it gets 4 stars instead of 5—are the Sontarans and Leela's exit. This is an incredibly clever plot to take over Gallifrey, but it's also an extremely out of character one for the straight-forward soldiers that Sontarans usually are. And, of course, Leela deserved better than to be thrown at the first man who didn't insult her. I'm a huge Gallifrey fan so glad she lived to return, but killing her off would have been more in character. Even having her just leave in a huff over the Doctor not taking her seriously would have been better.