Possibly the most infamous Doctor Who oddity ever conceived, my viewing of Zygon: When Being You Just Isn't Enough has been a long time coming... even as a BBV enjoyer, nothing prepares you for the 58-gloriously loopy, sometimes even infuriating minutes I found myself watching.

In many ways, it acts as a swansong to the Wilderness Era of Doctor Who, despite being shot in 2003 and not being released until 2008, nearly 3 years into its parent programme's successful revival; you've got a classic monster, a fairly interesting sub-Cronenbergian concept about the fluidity of identity and yet the film seems a lot more interested on selling itself on the characters' pink bits. What possessed Bill Baggs to create this sci-fi, horror, psycho-sexual thriller is well documented, but it's an entirely different sensation to experience this in its own right.

It acts as a semi-sequel to BBV's earlier production, Cyberon. I say semi-sequel, but Jo Castleton is the only returning actor and nothing about her previous outing is mentioned. It has the occasional good idea, but never quite manages to find the divide between what's in the writer's head and what ends up onscreen; it's all a bit handwavy. Half the scenes are just telling us the central theme with no nuance, and the other half don't have anything to do with it.

The technical aspects are about on par with previous BBV productions directed by Baggs, although you can really tell when they've shot additional footage, as it barely blends with the rest of the film around it. The acting all around is genuinely solid and Alistair Lock's music works pretty well, it just lacks a lot of the self-serious and completely earnest camp factor that made the pre-2000 BBV adventures so appealing to me and yet, despite all my comments and even with its seemingly mystifying reputation, Zygon is far from the worst thing Doctor Who has ever produced...