This time we see more of the slums of the city and it's walled off motorway. A motorway with the worst traffic jam ever! Some people have been on the road for years! And the scary thing is they just accept this, they don't see it as strange and it's not until the Doctor starts making them question what is going on that start to realise that things are terribly wrong.
As part of this story there are a number of hymns sung by the drivers whilst trapped on the motorway and I believe this episode was even nominated for a religious award due to this. But it seems to me that whoever nominated this episode has kind of missed the point of it. If anything this episode is an attack on religion. The drivers are blindly accepting things on faith alone and when the Doctor demands that they face the truth, such as when he asks if they have ever seen a police vehicle, they turn hostile at him questioning their beliefs.
Of course every Doctor Who story has to have a monster of some kind and even more exciting is that the monsters in this episode are returning creatures to the show. Of all the great creations of the past to return their is certainly a few that I was clamouring for at this point but this one took me completely by surprise! Macra! The giant crabs from the second Doctor story The Macra Terror. The story that actually no longer exists! Well it's safe to say I did not see that one coming!
The Macra aren't the only face from the past that the Doctor meets however as it is time for The Face Of Boe to make his third and final appearance in the series and more importantly reveal his greatest secret. Just before he dies he tells the Doctor "You are not alone". Therefore there must be at least one more Time Lord out there...and I think I know which one!
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