This was an extremely frustrating story.

This story started off with a fair amount of potential. Then, about 12 minutes or so in Iris Wildthyme shows up and everything interesting in the story evaporates leaving a poor rehash of the original Marco Polo story.

When writing a sequel to a story, two of the biggest things to try for are first to say something new and transformative to make it stand out, and to avoid having the listener wish they had just watched the original.

Magrs hits several of the notes from the original Marco Polo, but frankly they left me feeling that I should have just popped that story in the cd player instead of this one.

On the positive side, Colin Baker and Katy Manning play very well off each other, it’s just a shame that Manning plays a character so obnoxious that it taints the entire story.

This story drags the whole set down and mwould be better off not being recorded.