I could perhaps partially forgive this episode if it were at least a half-decent story. Yet it fails completely at that as well. The plot revolves around two young twin boys who are captured by some evil aliens for nefarious purposes, as these two young twin boys are mathematical geniuses. It's the sort of thing that I'd expect to read in a book purely intended for 8 year olds, not this series which is intended to appeal to a wider audience. And bear in mind the context as well. So far this series we have had a dark and serious drama in Caves of Androzani, a piece that examined religion in Planet of Fire, and even Warriors of the Deep at least attempted to be a Cold War analogue. But instead of all of these stories with underlying depths, this just chooses to ignore things like that and instead be something that's overly simplistic and not worth watching.
But even then it completely fails. Take, for instance, the cliffhanger to Part 2. It features a building blowing up, with the Doctor purportedly being inside. This could be an effective cliffhanger, if we had not literally just seen the Doctor teleport away from the building 20 seconds before it blew up. It fails at introducing any sense of doubt in the safety of the main character because we've already seen that he has escaped and indeed how he has escaped. This all goes as yet more evidence that this story is clearly the worst Doctor Who story of all time.
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