M035 - ...ish

The 6th Doctor continues to get the bizarre and bizarrely good episodes. In this one, while visiting a lexicographers conference (an exciting start), the Doctor gets tangled up in a terrorist's plot to use the ultimate word in the universe, and the first AI dictionary to enslave and destroy people with the English language.

Colin Baker's Doctor has regularly been described as verbose, and it is very fitting that the Doctor who swollowed a thesaurus should be put against a corporeal entity birthed from the language itself. The abstract nature of the villain means the story takes some leaps in how it is solved, but the script does take advantage of the dialogue-heavy form for some meta humour about censorship.