So the tin-foil Vardans are actually more dangerous than they look. They have telepathic powers, which effectively means that any form of resistance that can be summoned up can immediately be stopped. It's a great idea behind these villains, as it gives them an aura of menace and fear, just through looking at the responses from various characters such as the Doctor, where he will just blindly be forced to follow them without putting up any sort of resistance. By virtue of the fact that we learn the true nature of the Vardans, we also learn that the Doctor isn't really evil after all, which allows for the story to go on a different tack. Where once before we were in a fairly interesting story as we didn't know what the Doctor's plan was at all, now the secret has been revealed (that he was forced to play along by the Vardans) it removes some of the interestingness of the original story, turning it back into a fairly standard Doctor Who story. Still, at the very least, it's got some good ideas in it, and we'll get to see the conclusion of this story tomorrow as this Invasion of Time comes to a climax.
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