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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 6746889">Some of those early New Who episodes were pretty heavy handed with the political allegory. This reminded me a bit of the series under Davies. I do agree that the premise of settling 20 million zygons felt a bit much to believe (though the more I thought about the day of the doctor episode the less of an issue I had with it), but I often find that with Who I find their political decisions tough to swallow so it didn't stand out as especially egregious to me in the respect.I will say this for the set up. In a way it makes the Day of the Doctor better because it means there were real consequences for establishing the peace. It wasn't just "okay we'll leave each other alone" it meant that a real compromise had to be struck. And it was a compromise that came with serious risk for humanity. So in that respect it was a more realistic political compromise because it was more than just humans being mean to zygons and vice versa for the sake of meanness: there were real stakes. Overall I liked the episode. A good rubber monster episode that wasn't perfect in the set up but once it got started it worked well. I really liked Jenna Coleman's performance in this one. Very happy to have the two-parters back and glad it doesn't feel like we are zipping through storylines anymore (even if it means a little messiness here or there). As much as I liked the later Matt Smith episodes, I was really getting tired of the condensed storytelling approach.</blockquote>

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