This is one of the worst pieces of Doctor Who media I have ever had the displeasure of consuming. It's just so unbearably dull. This story truly proves the saying that the worst thing a Doctor Who story can be is boring.

Courtroom dramas are hard to pull of at the best of times. With an unlikeable lead, no flashbacks, only one witness (who doesn't even speak), a judge who lacks enthusiasm and a prosecutor who only has one facial expression it was doomed to fail from the start.

Who genuinely thought making a spin-off with Sil would be a good idea? I have never heard a single person say they like this character, or even care about him at all.

The entire thing is endlessly repetitive, which was useful to me, because I didn't have subtitles and found it tremendously difficult to focus on what people were saying when I was already bored out of my mind, but doesn't actually make it good. Most of the runtime was dedicated to people standing around and talking in the worst way possible.

None of the more "action-y" bits had any impact on the plot. Sil tried to bribe the guards to help him escape, and they took the money and turned him in. There were two or three different assassination attempts, and none of them went anywhere. Sil got alien Sophie Aldred to give him a bath in one of the most uncomfortable scenes I've ever had to sit through.

Other than the story itself, the dialogue was poorly written, most of the actors were either over- or under-acting, leading to stilted performances, and the prosthetics look unfinished and poorly blended. I could see the seams on Sil's rubber fingers.

The only bit of praise I can even attempt to offer is that the CGI of the opening sequence is pretty solid.

I would not recommend this to anyone. In fact, I would recommend people avoid this outright. I expected it to be bad, but I thought it might be a case of "so bad it's good", but it's not. It's just bad.