BFA DW Conflicts of Interest

5, Tegan and Nyssa, in two three part adventures.

Friendly Fire did a story about space racism that ends with Tegan feeling bad that humans can be the bad guys. Which feels weird, because, she has met us. The Doctor's alien friend sounded interesting. The locals sounded like incompetent bullies, so, plausible enough. I liked the ending. It was all plausibly sad and small whilst still being a genuine threat to the team.

The Edge of the War didnt grab me, though I was trying to do small tasks at the same time.
I got very frustrated trying to put the new fan together and now it is all clicked into place, probably correctly, it seems to me too tall, which is frustrating because my entire lack of sense of scale has struck again.
Which wasnt what I sat down to write about but is how I felt through most of the story.
It didnt quite grab me or connect me emotionally to the characters, and its very possibly not the writings fault.
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So now I'm grumpy and turning the story pieces around in my head looking for the click where it connects, much as I was doing with the fan while listening, and that was probably part of why it didnt click for me.

Only review I can properly give is I liked the ingredients but I should probably relisten from the top when I can concentrate.

Frustrating.