I will admit, I love space stations/ships and if you can squeeze some horror into it then I'm already sold.

I really enjoyed this weeks episode.

I'm really sick of zombies so when one seemed to arrive in the opening sequence I was a little put off.
The explanation that it wasn't the corpse it was the suit that was the threat was much more interesting and gruesome.
Bill's reaction to the still standing cadaver said it all and was nicely played.
The horrible way they dispatch their victims, frying them alive all while the suit reassures them was very effective.
The most effective thing was the change in the eyes. Having been round dead bodies this was scarily accurate, the loss of any spark and the clouding and drying out of the eyeballs.
The burnt effect was slightly less convincing especially following Taskers death. The death was good but then he has black painted on lines after he is dead. These reminded me of the changes induced by the Cybermen in "The Moonbase".

There were a number of nice cliffhangers, which would have worked brilliantly under the old format.
Bill's suit malfunctioning and removing her helmet
The Doctor's blindness
Bill's second "death"
They were still very effective in this episode and added to the overall tension.

The resolution of the story was pretty good. Not everyone is saved which I think has to happen to sell the seriousness of the situation. Bill surviving was given a good explanation, it was clearly going to happen but they played it well.
The company making the assessment that the crew weren't worth keeping alive was interesting. I've been listening to a few Alien audiobooks and it strikes me as something Weyland-Yutani from that series would do.
It also meant the Doctors solution made sense, manipulating the company the only way he can by making it more profitable to keep them alive.

The end of the episode with the Doctor revealing he was still blind is an interesting setup for next week.
I did wonder why he was wearing the "Sonic" (shudder) sunglasses again. I don't know how this will tie into a story but it is something different as the Doctor tends to die and regenerate rather than carry any injury or impairment forward from one story to the next.

Nardole featured heavily in this episode and surprisingly he was an asset. I actually enjoyed the character being there, I wouldn't mind seeing him more often if this continues. I may regret that statement.
I did enjoy him stealing the fluid link to try and cripple the TARDIS. The fluid link has broken, leaked or been nicked so many times in the past including in "The Daleks" and "The Wheel in Space", it does amuse me to think it was all a bluff.

Capaldi was excellent, he was serious throughout and fully in control. I think this might be one of his best performances. He is also the Doctor at his best, putting himself at risk to save others.

So far I think this has been by far the best episode, I don't think it quite squeezes in besides the best of Who but it was damn close.
9 bottles of mercury no longer required for the fluid link out of 10

Despite being apprehensive of the Zombies in Space cliche, I thought it was the best of the series so far, more grounded in reality.

There was however a goof in the station map. No Section 08 and two Section 09s.

OXYGEN.

This is easily my favourite serial so far in this series - much better than anything that has gone before. In fact, it is easily a contender for my favourite Peter Capaldi serial - period. It was good to see Nardole was back in the action, Bill was also far less irritating and the Doctor was in fine form too. I find them much more effective when they are all in it together. I think that the three of them play off one another wonderfully.

I also found the setting quite realistically done, considering the obvious limitations of the budget. In fact, I positively loved the visual imagery used in the pre-title sequence. The rest of the serial wasn’t bad either.

And the ending was great. A nice twist - although it wasn’t too hard to see it coming…

Yeah, I know.