😑34% = Bad! = Leave it!

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THERE'S A CAVE IN THE JUNGLE!

The Twilight Kingdom is structured closer to a typical Doctor Who adventure, as Eight, Charley, and C’rizz find themselves in a jungle and jumble upon a body, only to be caught by soldiers, with whom they then explore a nearby, mysterious cave. This is a straightforward story that keeps its cards close to the chest for quite a while, and it doesn’t lean very hard into tension or excitement.

While The Natural History of Fear suffered from being very confusing, it had interesting ideas and occasionally tense bits. The Twilight Kingdom is almost so stripped-down that I struggle to maintain interest.

The Doctor, Charley, and C’rizz are pretty boring in this one, and the companions especially don’t manage to stand out. On paper, I like the military characters, but I struggle to distinguish between them.

There are strange alien voices that add nothing to the whole, plenty of sequences in caves with rat-like creatures that don’t come alive, and an eventual reveal in the last episode that lacks the punch it needs to lift this adventure.