9️⃣⏹️ = ENJOYABLE: NEAR PERFECT!

Thworping through time and space, one adventure at a time!

"PLAYING THE PYRAMID GAME!"

The story opens from Jamie's point of view as he visits a bookshop in 1960s London, meets the suspicious named bookseller (Professor Thascalos; the Master, whose presence in the story is a mere cameo), and brings back a mysterious book for the Doctor. We then quickly move onto the main problem, as the Doctor and Jamie are transported into a glass city on an alien world.

The story taps finely into the unique friendship between Two and Jamie, brought to life effortlessly by Hines. It also paints quite vivid alien landscapes and action scenes within it.

I love these stories that try to do something different with the setting or the structure, and this is one of those. The strange world our heroes find themselves in isn't particularly lively, but fantastical and fascinating.

It takes until the third act for the story to get to the Archeons, but once it does, Scott takes the opportunity to make them important in Time Lord history and give them a real grudge against Time Lords.

The climax is a wonderfully vivid sequence of music and sound, using both characters to their full extent.