What a waste of an episode - it's just killing time

And this is where the story really starts to lag, as almost all of it is set on the Master's spaceship and concerns the Doctor and Jo's attempt to escape. There's a good few minutes where we see the Master reading The War of the Worlds whilst he can hear Jo on the intercom rabbiting on about nothing in particular. She could talk the hind legs off a donkey. I know she was trying to make it look as though the Doctor was still in the cell but it quickly got irritating.

There's a bit of excitement at the end where the Draconians turn up and then the cliffhanger indicates that the Ogrons will soon be joining them but the episode does nothing to advance the plot.

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