Didn’t love this one for several reasons.

The party lands in the mysterious Elbion, where magic and fantasy come to life. After a battle with a dragon and a meeting with the king, Susan gets kidnapped by an evil sorcerer, who aims to take over the land. The only thing that can stop him is a mysterious relic. Will the Doctor and Ian get it in time?

The big problem with this story is its massive lack of character. Things happen to our main cast. Ian and the Doctor travel the world, Barbara gets kidnapped and led into a dangerous magic forest and Susan is locked up in a tower, but the characters never seem to react to these situations appropriately. They feel like 2d versions of their usual selves. And sadly, the original characters don’t fare much better.

And to make matters worse, the main story doesn’t really pick up the slack either. It’s incredibly slow and descriptive, without that ever serving a deeper function. Every mountaintop and bump in the road gets explained in so much detail, but it never really comes into play. It’s a load of fluff that is never story relevant or important to the characters.

It feels like this story only exists to feel pages, without any other layer to grab on to. A shame.