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I gave it a fair chance. The CGI is awful, fake Cheetos look like something a first year film student would do, not a professional CGI artist.

There was no chemistry between the characters.

Ruffalo is phoning it in and sounds weird.

Maslany is a great actress, so I can only presume she was paid a lot of money for this tripe.

The asides to camera are sad and distracting.

Also, how come she was better at Hulking after 5 minutes than Bruce was after nearly 20 years?

Avoid this steaming pile.

This is probably the weakest story of season 12.

The Cybermen are not inately threatening, and the Vogans are poorly designed.

That said the acting is great and the story is clever.

The reuse of the Nerva beacon brings a story loop to a satisfying end.

Even as the weakest story, it is still miles better than anything produced after 2017.

If remade today with better CGI and more impressive Cybermen it would be a classic.

This story is mainly a victim of budgetry limitations.

Imagine, if you will, a stage play presented on Television. The sets are often rudimentary, being merely the framework on which to hang the vestments of a well written drama, with fully fleshed out characters portrayed by some of the greatest performers of their era. The intrigue, the back-stabbing, the murders...This has them all, and as well as all the internicine plotting, there is madness, violence, horror and lust. John Hurt gives a bravuro performance as Caligula, and what you see here is AFTER the BBC cut the scene to excise the true horror. (Tellingly, it was not excised on its first showing, and I remember it, indeed, will never forget it!) P P Poor Uncle Claudius, he never knows true peace. This was a landmark serial and could never be made today with the sensibilities of the woke and snowflake generation, it would give them the screaming ad dabs!