One thing I’ve learned with the modern series, is that a boring story is worse than a bad story. Because with a bad story, you can still be entertained.

That being said, this story is very boring. One of the major causes for this is that all main characters don’t really interact. Which can work, if they were tested in some way. However, everything mostly comes down to idle dawdling until a conclusion is reached. It feels like pure padding, and has no real redeeming qualities to make up for it.

A great example of this is the picture of Ian that’s shown in the promotional art to the left. William Russell was on break during this story, so missed out on 2, yet he is still large in the picture, because even with the least amount of screen time he’s ever had up till now, there’s just nothing else to fill it with.

It wouldn’t be as bad if there was some background on the events that take place. As happened with Marco Polo, but even that is not really a thing. And I’ll be honest, I don’t know who Robespierre is, but I don’t know if it is up to the story or my general knowledge to make that known.

This leaves the first TV season with its first dud on the last episode. Hopefully future stories take more inspiration from the other stories in this season, instead of this one.

“Our lives are important, at least, to us. But as we see, we learn. Our destiny is in the stars, so let’s go and search for them”