I'm really glad this story exists.

That doesn't mean I liked it - I found it interminably tedious - but the great strength of Doctor Who is the range of ideas it can cope with. Year of the Pig is certainly a novel approach to telling a story.

Unfortunately, it really didn't work for me. There's a lot of irrelevant details, and while I usually like a good dollop of worldbuilding, the first part is 76 minutes long. I had to stop and restart several times as I kept losing focus or falling asleep.

The plot is paper-thin - there's probably more sentences describing food orders than there are progressing the plot - and the central premise is simply to fantastical to keep me interested.

I really hope it finds an audience. But sadly, it's not me.