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Last night we watched The Magician's Apprentice / The Witch's Familiar.
What an absolute mess.
For every brilliant idea there's two crap ones. Colony Sarff deserved his own episode and it makes no sense that Davros has employed him for security (when he's in the middle of the Dalek empire in Skaro???) but he is a great character. The planes stopping was nice but utterly unnecessary. The Doctor hiding was nice but utterly unnecessary. The tank / electric guitar scene was such a WTF moment. I can imagine people turning off their TV at that point.
The pacing is utterly bizarre. It takes ages to get going and then the story is wafer thin when we get there.
Oh and I'd forgotten that Kate Lethbridge-Stewart was in it but then you would, wouldn't you?
Although I quite like it, I agree that almost the whole episode could have been replaced with "The TARDIS materialises on the planet Skaro".