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Zygons And Peter Harness's Kill The Moon

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Once upon a time, in the not too distant past, we saw three Doctors forcing the invading Zygons and UNIT to start negotiating “the most perfect treaty of all time.” If you don’t remember this, there’s no need to dig out your copy of the 50th Anniversary episode as it’s briefly recapped at the start for you. Since then, however, the details of this peace treaty have not been mentioned again, and so in many ways this two-parter acts as a sequel of sorts. As we have seen from the promotional material, the upshot of this peace treaty was that twenty million Zygons have been living secretly among humans on the planet for the last two years or so. A small number of them are unhappy with the current arrangements, therefore deciding to break away from the alliance made between their commanders and UNIT and start making demands of their own. Osgood finds herself in the wrong place, at the wrong time, which is how the Doctor and Clara find themselves called upon to help set her free, and try to re-establish the peace between the two sides before there’s an uprising. …show more content…

As you know, I wasn’t a big fan of his offering last year; the ‘science’ involved was a major let down, as were the supporting characters – off the top of my head I can only recall Courtney, though that’s possibly due to her being an established role last

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