This is part of a series of reviews of Doctor Who in chronological timeline order.

Previous Story: Davros

I was going into this expecting something awful and what I got was an OK story. Just OK, bit dull at points, bit fun too. Really generic story about weirdly-named aliens fighting other weirdly-named aliens while having some sort of a civil-war. It's really unremarkable but it's not as horrible as I've seen other people rate it.

At the very least, Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant are good here. Baker especially is incredibly entertaining to watch and manages to make stories like this worthwhile. I like this story's usage of a historical figure, H. G. Wells. He's played quite well by David Chandler and has a fun dynamic with the Doctor. The reveal of his identity at the end was quite charming.

Overall it's definitely not a great story but I don't see why this one is hated as much as stories like The Twin Dilemma.

Next Story: Year of the Pig