Oh, so we're just not even pretending that the premise matters anymore are we, great.

At least with the stories in the last set, they all had flashes to modern day, or the ending would be affecting the modern setting in some way, here it's just dropping you onto alien worlds with no idea what's going on. Sure our main cast don't know what's happening here either, but especially coming off another story that just did something like that, it's not clever here, it's just frustrating.

I think that's how I'd describe this whole story to be honest. Frustrating. I had to go back and check that I hadn't accidentally gone to the second story in the set, and when I realised I hadn't I just got even more frustrated with the story.

Also the character stuff has been at the heart of Stranded so far, even when the rest of the story has been meh, the character interactions have been solid. Here. Meh. The story is basically split into three, Eight giving frustratingly cryptic narration, Helen and Tanya where there's not really anything to write home about, and Liv and Andy where, well, you can't go wrong with Andy, but generally there's just not too much here. These are fun pairings if something more interesting had happened to force them together, but the reasoning given at the end is just a complete nothing.

The story wants you to care about the mystery but I genuinely couldn't care less, I just want to get to the 20th century, to find out what's going on with Divine Intervention and to see more of the cast of the flat. I want Stranded to feel like Stranded, and this just doesn't feel like anything.

They're asking for patience, and giving nothing back when you are.