Its okay but I feel like it's mostly buoyed by Jo Martin and her infectious enthusiasm for playing Fugitive. It elevates what is effectively a middle of the road Dalek story of which there is nothing that doesn't feel like it hasn't been done before and leaves me to wonder if other than giving Nick Briggs another paycheck, was there any reason to have it be a Dalek story.

Honestly? Pretty enjoyable. Can only echo what others have said. I don’t think we needed the Daleks at all. But how they handled it was solid and probably as good as they probably could have done. I am not sure about the whole Oppenheimer Solution, I can’t lie while on principal a nice Idea, it felt very tacked on. Still, I enjoyed my Time!

Going into this, I was a little disappointed that they'd chosen to focus on Fugitive as, well, a fugitive, rather than giving us more of her time in Division...

Those disappointments were easily put to bed however when I listened to this, especially with the interviews afterwards. It makes sense for them to focus on Fugitive as a fugitive, as it's the part of her life that we've actually already seen her in, plus would be a weird title for a set if it were called 'The Fugitive Doctor Adventures' and she wasn't one.

Anyway, onto the actual story.

I love the way the story starts, the glimpse at Division, her partner betraying her, her getting away and then getting caught. Her doing the thing of going up to the biggest guy in prison and humiliating him is fun to see, and I absolutely love just how reluctant she is through all of this. You do get the sense that she's not quite The Doctor(tm) yet, but she's absolutely getting there.

I'm also surprised by how much I enjoyed the Daleks here. I'd somehow managed to forget they were in this, or assumed it was a later story, so their appearance did surprise me. I love Fugitive's interactions with them as well, them knowing her but her not knowing them yet, her trying to get more information. I love that they chose to use The Chase Daleks over the Time War Daleks, and the way they're eventually defeated by blowing them up with Oppenheimer's bomb is fun, and shows us that Fugitive still has a decent knowledge of Earth, even in this incarnation, wherever it is.

Also I really like her interactions with Fade here. The Doctor is often characterised like a teacher, and I think the way she's characterised here feels almost like a 'strict headteacher', the core of it is still there, but she's not quite the person she becomes yet.

This story wears its influences on its sleeve, namely (as cited in the interviews) the Prisoner, A-Team and the Hartnell story 'The Chase'. It's not radical (it is a prison break and Dalek story after all) but as a series pilot it's an effective one- this Doctor is a much more hardcore, harsh one actively on the run, reluctantly drawn to help. It's fast paced (even by NuWho standards), but great fun.