Team TARDIS are in the wars for this weeks bleak and battle-scarred Doctor Who.

Cyber-spoilers after the squirrel…

This review contains spoilers after the squirrel.

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Thats not to suggest that this must therefore be a brilliant episode, though.

(Im sure someone will chime in with examples Ive forgotten, mind.)

Spoiler Squirrel, activate!

(Not yet, anyway.)

Yes, much like Captain Jack, it rather seems as though Brendan cant be killed.

With Brendan, we might just as easily have been watching clips from an entirely different programme.

Is Brendans life really some kind of simulation designed to keep the human part of a Cyberman subdued?

Is he an ancient hermit guarding a rift in time and space?

Is he theSea Devils?

Its a mystery that adds spice to the story, thats for sure.

Theres almost nobody lefttosave.

(Why are these things shaped like flying Cyberman heads?

Enquiring minds must know.)

Its not long before the companions have been separated.

Read more: what can a Cyberman story achieve?

Is it genuinely powerful, or more of a totem?

The jurys still out.