YMMV / Doctor Who S11 E4 "The Monster of Peladon"

• Hilarious in Hindsight: The inclusion of a character named Eckersley may engender some amusement for Oakland A's and Boston Red Sox fans.
• It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: A common criticism of this story is how heavily it repeats "The Curse of Peladon". Many of this serial's characters are direct counterparts of its predecessor's cast, with the only major differentiation being the fact that Hepesh's role is split between Orton (a dogmatic, nationalist chancellor) and Eckersly (a human ally of the monarchy who turns out to be conspiring with an alien renegade to plunder Peladon's mineral deposits), and the plot features many of the same beats.
• One-Scene Wonder: Vega Nexos, who gets killed off about five minutes into the story, but achieved disproportionate fame in fandom through being included to make up the numbers in a series of breakfast cereal trading cards.
• Sequelitis: The story is generally regarded as an inferior, overlong retread of the first Peladon story.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: We’re are supposed to see Ortron's death as a Tear Jerker, but he spent the first half of the story being nothing but a Politically Incorrect Villain Obstructive Bureaucrat that it’s hard to grieve for him at all.
• Values Resonance: Considering "The Curse of Peladon" was a Pro-EU piece, this story, set 50 years later, can come across as one for Brexit, which began a little over 50 years after entering the EU. The serial shows a member state complaining about the burdens placed on them by membership and trying to break away, leading to a rise in violence. However, it can also come across as anti-Brexit, considering the trouble is being assisted by backwards-looking nationalists. The fact that the trouble is also being helped by an enemy force of the Federation (Galaxy Five) can even be connected to the likelihood that Russia influenced the referendum.

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