A base under siege story featuring 5 and Nyssa, with an unremarkable alien threat and pacing. Nothing particularly surprising happens. However, the characterisation was pleasant; 4 out of the 5 human side characters had more than one dimension and the one who didn't was at least fun to hate. The sound design was also pretty vivid. I also enjoyed the inclusion of Silver Crow and how his Sioux background is important to the plot. Other stories would have villified the Whitlocks for bringing Silver Crow to England, but I thought it refreshing that in this story Silver Crow seems to have chosen to come himself and that he and the Whitlocks are on good terms.

A perfectly pleasant way to spend two hours, but not much more than that.

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Such a dull story that I considered not even writing a review for it, simply because there is nothing to review. Since I've reviewed every story prior to this though I'm not gonna skip one now. To put it simply, this story really has nothing of substance going on in it whatsoever.

5 and Nyssa are interesting because on one hand they can be an incredibly entertaining team but on the other hand they're so generic that without an good writer they can be infuriatingly dull. Unfortunately, this is one of those cases. Other than that this is a story I strongly recommend skipping, it'll save you 1 hour, 40 minutes of your life that can be better spent doing anything else.

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