Well it started promisingly with a good atmospheric location and photography but then descended into a standard alien invasion plot with poor stabs at wit and an in your face feminist agenda.
It would have been a lot better not to have any alien threat at all and just focus on a historical lesson in witchcraft as a lesson in how socially backward and superstitious we were centuries ago.
Another problem is that decent attempts to ramp up the tension are ruined by the insertion of supposedly humorous lines at key points.
The doctor's companions are almost like cardboard cutouts at times - they just seem to stand together in the same position in each episode like mannequins - - devoid of any real personality - and then occasionally they're allowed to say something. They basically do not function as a team.
So just two episodes left in this season - let's hope the BBC took a long hard look at what they've done to the series and try and rescue it if it returns in 2019.
It would have been a lot better not to have any alien threat at all and just focus on a historical lesson in witchcraft as a lesson in how socially backward and superstitious we were centuries ago.
Another problem is that decent attempts to ramp up the tension are ruined by the insertion of supposedly humorous lines at key points.
The doctor's companions are almost like cardboard cutouts at times - they just seem to stand together in the same position in each episode like mannequins - - devoid of any real personality - and then occasionally they're allowed to say something. They basically do not function as a team.
So just two episodes left in this season - let's hope the BBC took a long hard look at what they've done to the series and try and rescue it if it returns in 2019.
