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I agree. RTD is good at this. You don’t need to even know The Pyramids of Mars exists in order for Saturday’s reveal to work. Indeed even if you do, it’s not relevant beyond a nice bit of nostalgia.

Having Gabriel Woolf back doing the voice is the icing on the cake. Again it’s great to know it’s him, but if you’re a more recent fan of the show, he is just brilliant at that voice. I cannot imagine anyone else doing it so well. I’m so pleased they didn’t just recast the voice part. Again the show has a great record on this sort of thing.

A fantastic and flawless episode!

I disagree heavily on it being a flawless episode. For me, it was a very frustrating watch with holes, annoying characters and a messy narrative, but I agree completely that this is one of RTD’s strengths: reintroducing a villain or classic character in a way that makes it relevant to the current audience and the show’s present first and nostalgic as a bonus. Even his reintroduction of Sarah Jane back in the day did this masterfully.