Day 248: The War Games Episode 5

This is the episode wherein not much should happen. We're now too far away from the beginning of the story for us to receive set-up and we're too far away from the end to receive much conclusion, meaning that we are instead left with the plot continuing to move along without introducing too much. And yet, whilst the above is true, there is still stuff happening. We get hints of how the villains are carrying out their scheme, about how they are using time travel with the help of someone who apparently knows the Doctor. And most importantly of all, we get to see the War Chief (who has provided them with the time travel technology) and the Security Chief (one of the aliens who has presumably been in this from the beginning) fight it out. Their tension is spellbinding, and it provides the ultimate contrast to The Dominators, where the tension between villains there bordered on the ridiculous. Here, we see these two villains get cross at each other, whilst the audience recognises that they are both powerful. We are so drawn to their fighting that we have to tune in the following week, to just see how their relationship will develop.