First of all, I'd like to say that Simon Robinson did an excellent job of the music and sound design for this episode. Personally, I found it all delightful and it enhanced an already fun story.

And that is exactly how I would describe this story: fun. It's the kind of story that is best enjoyed with plenty of context as it is set chronologically at the beginning of the Doctor's travel's with Mel, and after the Doctor's Trial, and after Evelyn has left Six to marry Rossiter. Fortunately, I am in too deep with DW, so I was able to follow these threads with relative ease.

That doesn't mean the story isn't twisting though. Langford and Baker do a sublime job at differentiating between the two Doctors and the two Mels (and I for one found the Mel A/Mel B Spice Girls jokes funny). We find ourselves here in Pease Pottage, a quaint country village which is caught in the middle of meddlesome time distortions. Mr Petherbridge is at the heart of it all, calling himself a demon who wants to cause chaos by erasing the Doctor from time and feeding on the way the universe would unravel around that.

Petherbridge is one of many excellent minor characters in this episode. We see him as well as the various characters in time, Jed the Victorian, and Vaneesh, business consultant. I can see how one might find her corportate buzzword personality annoying, but it amused me very much. In fact, I found the whole episode's tonal frivolty to be deeply entertaining. Certainly one of the better MR episodes, and delightful if you enjoy Six, as I do, and you like your DW when it's a bit twisty and silly.