Taking Base Under Siege to a whole new Level!

Sure this Story doesn't invent the Wheel new, but my God was this fanstatic! The Tension really does a lot for this Story! Chosing the Team of 2, Jamie and Zoe was a brilliant Choice. I must admit there was something off with our Tardis Crew and then it all clicked! While of course by no means a new Twist of having an evil Version of our Tardis Team or one of them, it did REALLY work here to a splendid Effect! I also liked that we got enough to see from a few of the Side Characters, while sure I wish they would have fleshed them more out, what we got was great already. Oh and that Ending really just brought it all nicely together!

I was not expecting this one to be as good as it was, but my God, this was brilliant!

This is part of a series of reviews of Doctor Who in chronological timeline order.

Previous Story: Operation Werewolf

I love the way Classic Doctors New Monsters takes these one-off monsters and realises them to their full potential. They did it with the clockwork droids and now the Krillitane. Obviously a shape-shifter story isn't exactly anything new but it's brilliantly done here with us following the impostor TARDIS team for the majority of the story instead. It leads to a genuinely all-timer twist where you realise who we've actually been following the entire team. Troughton, Hines and Padbury's performances here were amazing in the way they suddenly flipped the switch like that. I'm excited to see the follow up to this one if it's anything as good as this.

Next Story: The War Games

Very good slowburn story that just as it was about to bore me had the twist happen. Had to stop and physically gasp! And from there just goes from strength to strength. Such a great base under siege story with some fun discussion about humanity and its cruelty.

Love the krillitane and this story is exactly what I wanted from it