The last time Charlie Palmer wrote for he produced two of the show's best all-time episodes, the season 3 two-parter "Human Nature"/ "The Family of Blood." It's seven seasons later, and he's finally back with "Oxygen," a bad-shit-happens-on-a-space-station thriller which pushes Bill to the brink of death on more than one occasion and robs The Doctor of the one thing he's never lost before. The episode's conclusion is a tad hasty, and it all lacks the emotional depth of Palmer's season 3 efforts. However, as a more classical running-away-from-baddies-in-empty-corridors Doctor Who episode "Oxygen" is a fine effort with a pretty ...
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