Fascinating that you feel that, McGrath, because that is exactly what I thought it wasn't. The daleks barely appeared, for example, and the temptation to make them the central enemy must have been huge - after all, all Who-enthusiasts have known since the special was announced that it was about the greatest battle between the Time Lords and the daleks...

Then the main story was a morality one: is it legitimate to sacrifice one person to saved hundreds, and if so is it also legitimate to sacrifice billions to save hundreds of billions? And that aspect of story was done almost entirely in conversation, with no action scenes.