It was a fun episode but some stuff plot conveniences let it down for me. Gave it a
6.
Rimmer would be proud of the hard light hologram!
Apparently, it's way easy to kill 3 trillion people. Just transmit delta waves and viewers will die. Seems unlikely but if that were a real risk, they'd limit their TV, holograms or whatever from passing that to the viewer. Also, the people with right skills were always right there for whatever was needed. The Doctor even jokes about it. And all those people blown into space but were revived?! They hand waved that by saying the Doctor's modification to the "mavity" "suspended" them, which made them saveable. Ok, whatever. They wanted the dramatic visual but not the consequences.
The supporting characters were nice. Belinda was great as always although her early meltdown wasn't believable. She's already seen worse.
As for the reveals, I was unspoiled for both so they totally surprised me.
Woot! Susan! I'd been hoping she'd be back. Now, the Doctor better find her for real and not make this another tease like last season!
The Rani. Well, that's interesting. But the reveal that Ms. Flood is the Rani was underwhelming. Just showing Ms. Flood randomly every episode doesn't make the reveal more interesting. But, I like the idea of the Rani returning and hope RTD has a good plan for her.
And, UGH, no more flipping bigeneration!! No more! Be done with it! It happening the first time was ok. Not needed but not bad. RTD discussing the retroactive bigeneration to all previous regenerations is just stupid and best forgotten. But going forward . . .
