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

Previous Story: Year of the Pig

I've been loving Destiny of the Doctor, if only for a glimpse at each companion actor's impression of their respective Doctors (and 11). This story is a fairly fun one, the main part that I really like is how it challenges a lot of things that are problematic with celebrity historicals. It especially challenges the Doctor's idolisation of these historical figures by having Peri outright call the Doctor out on his treatment of Christopher Columbus. Nev Fountain seems to be fairly accustomed to subverting expectations when it comes to historical figures (see The Kingmaker which turns Richard III into the "good" guy and Shakespeare into the bad one).

Nicola Bryant's performance of this story is excellent and it's especially noticeable just how much work she puts in when she's narrating this story as you can really hear the differences between her natural accent and her Doctor Who accent. I'm not sure I'm a big fan of the resolution, I'm mixed on the idea of a time-traveller creating the myth of Satan by appearing throughout Earth's history when stories like The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit have a much cooler explanation for the imagery of the Devil appearing everywhere. Overall a great installment to a series that I'm intrigued to hear the end of.

Next Story: Revelation of the Daleks