Jean Daniel puts his final plan into action: Technopolis is built and ready to receive its Master, Cyberax. Ed and Beckett try to keep Ros safe, deliberately stopping her from thinking about Cyberax - but, of course, her curiosity gets the better of her.
Series two has been hit and miss, but the payoff here in this final episode is well and truly worth it. Big, bold, dynamic, scintillating - it comes together beautifully. The cartoonish nature of some earlier episodes is almost a thing of the past; this is Bugs firing on all cylinders.
Everything is on point: the scale, the tension, the stakes. Jean Daniel becomes a very real threat, and Cyberax is brilliantly realised. I loved the idea of Ros believing the boys had gone rogue.
Considering what I'd have thought back in 1996 - sci-fi largely absent from the BBC since Doctor Who ended in 1989 - this episode really delivers. Cyberax definitely evokes the Cybermen, a sort of collective brain and chilling intelligence.
Beth Goddard's Marilyn Monroe hairstyle is a delight - she looks wonderfully glamorous throughout.
I do hope this is the last we see of Jean Daniel and Cassandra. They've been excellent, but enough now - the same goes for the Cyberax arc. I'll be glad when it's wrapped up.
Once again, we have villains who are expert at shooting glass, yet useless when it comes to a live target. Apart from one or two minor gripes, it's almost faultless.
Peak Bugs.
9.5/10.
