The Body Politic

The Body Politic is another story that's a little weaker for me. Partly I think due to the companion of choice, partly because of where it sits in the overarching narrative.

Grace is a great character, but for a series that's not only a celebration of Doctor Who, but a celebration of Doctor Who comics, it's a bit of a shame to not have some of Eight's comic original companions here, instead pulling in Grace, who was never really a companion in the way many others are (at the very least, she's less a companion than Wilf), for a one-off adventure in the TARDIS so she can get kidnapped. I just don't buy that of all Eight's companions, someone who's going and kidnapping them all would choose Grace.

And as for it's place in the overarching story, here tensions are starting to ramp up, The Doctor has a man on the inside, we know the enemy is a future companion (or at least future for Seven), we know The Master's involved... and here we just get a fairly middling story about weird alien politics where a culture is overthrown in half an issue. There's the bit at the end where The Doctor sees the kidnapper coming, and we get a little motivation, but it's not much, not things we couldn't've already guessed.