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

Previous Story: Time and the Rani

The first half of this story is so utterly boring and annoying that it completely negates the relatively solid second half. We get about an hour of Sylvester McCoy wailing and moaning while Mel tries to find her way around in a taxi. Once all that's done though, it's a fairly decent adventure.

The idea of the CIA (the Time Lord one) trying to graft TARDIS minds into humans is very interesting and a pretty neat way to explore how a TARDIS thinks, reminiscent of The Doctor's Wife only a lot less personal to the Doctor himself. McCoy is really fun to listen to, he gets to give some great speeches and he's generally quite fun once he stops babbling incoherently.

Overall, while I did enjoy this story by the end, it never really gets good enough to recover from that abysmal first half.

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