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Felicia Barker's avatar

Those had ideas and themes and depths; this one is silly and fanwanky, and runs on pure energy and love for the show.

I don't think that's entirely fair. Utopia itself is a big idea as setting, fairly heavily explored. City at the edge of time, aspirational leap into the unknown hereafter, etc. You could strip the cliffhanger and make this a one off and it'd still be great.

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Stephen's avatar

The plot is a direct lift from the Season 1 Episode of Blake’s 7, Deliverance, where our heroes have to work out how to send a rocket into space to save the civilisation from the barbarians. As Terrence Dicks said, a strong and original idea, but not necessarily one’s own!

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