Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror

Nikola Tesla made for an interesting person to study, and Goran Visnjic was a terrific bit of casting, he was excellent.

I did rather enjoy this, it certainly had energy, and in all fairness it had some excellent production values, some of the shots looked fantastic. The lighting was much, much better than we've had in recent times, making the monsters look so much better. The Queen of The Skithra did seem to bear a striking resemblance to The Queen of The Racnoss.

I would argue this was Jodie's most accomplished performance since Rosa, she had more conviction, she showed some metal facing up to The Scorpion Queen. There was some depth here, the memories of Gallifrey etc. I thought she was rather good.

They can't help but have a dig about capitalism, whether you agree or not, weekly receiving the message on Dr Who is not the place, even Pertwee gave us a break once in a while. They are struggling to make the companions useful, efforts to give Yaz more to do are sacrificing Graham unfortunately, Ryan sadly was barely in it. Unlike last week though it ends with a welcome positive message.

There was a more classic vibe going on here. I liked it. 7/10

A nice wrapped up bottle episode ! Strong enough villan, Nice tight story and strong secondary characters!

Absolutely adored this episode. Great portrayals, funny and action packed with creepy aliens and wonderful production values. Haven't had this much fun with Doctor Who in a long time! Possibly the best of the Chibnall era

Now finally after Orphan 55 i was at the stage of being about to give up, last season was incredibly weak and full of problems, then spyfall got my hopes up that maybe it will get slowly better, then i was hit in the face last week with the terrible Orphan 55 and made me extremely pessimistic about the shows future. however, despite the fact i still have major doubts about the shows future, i am very happy with this episode. this is what happens when you try to not batter the audience with a political message. now despite this probably being a quite mediocre standard episode of doctor who, weak villains, HOOOWEVER, it is by far the best episode of this era of the show and i am glad that i watched it, and glad i am continuing. For now........

Enough said really. Earlier today, I watched a couple of the Tennant era episodes and missed Doctor Who feeling that way. It used to be real with real people and real stakes. Although clearly fiction, this episode managed to make the characters feel multi-dimensional and recaptured the good old days feeling of real life.