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Nothing here to make you smile, worst finale by a country mile. Contrasting this to previous ends, mind bogglingly bad, no dividends. The man in charge has no idea, he's turned gold into diarrhoea. About the villain what can you say, must suffer badly from tooth decay.

Well that was a poor end to a terrible season, writers you should be ashamed. As an episode it was ok but season finale NO. Let's hope as it's taking a year off they get better writers, and a better bloke in charge. Plus don't you find that Jodie seems like she's reading the lines but deffo does not have a clue what she's saying, good actress but needs to make people believe she's an intelligent Time Lord.

Honestly, this episode was just bland. I was engaged throughout because I was waiting for the big reveal, the big twist, the epic fight, some epic monologue, anything. Nothing happened. It was just a big buildup to nothing.

The season was bland for the most part as well. The only episodes I would consider rememberable are Rosa and It Takes You Away.

The writing and plot lines have been terrible all season. The finale was tepid.

What was that. I'm speechless and that's not in a complimenting way.

This was a good episode villains, robots, spaceships, quirky characters. The list goes on. Doctor Who is and always has been a cheesey series where you suspend disbelief, hang your brain up at the door and merely enjoy the ride. I am a child of the 70s and the effects were ropey, the plots thin but the romp fun. We've become a bit too up our own buttholes and high brow with some of the reviews I've read and this was never that series. Get over yourselves. I give this a solid 8

A great title, an episode with some very good elements, it was big and bold, but you'd have needed to have enjoyed the first episode to buy into this one, maybe an episode not hugely appealing to a casual fan.

There were some good scenes between The Doctor and Graham, and it was nice to see a bit of conflict between the pair, I thought Bradley Walsh was excellent in this. Jodie was very good here too, I thought one of her best performances to date.

Some very nice special effects, it wasn't an epic series finale, by any stretch of the imagination, when you consider finales from previous seasons. Overall though, I liked it, I thought the writing was rather good, with some huge ideas, fairly well realised.

So the big question, Resolution........ Of .......... Not long to wait.

7/10 Summary: Ambitious, rather good in fact.

When Russ Davies re-imagined Doctor Who he did so from the position of being a huge fan with an obligation to what had gone before. The actors he employed seemed to feel that same obligation. Chris Eccleston and amazingly Billie Piper, of all people, set up The Doctor brilliantly for the new millennium. Chris handed over to David Tennant who managed to become one of the truly Great Doctors after a debut that was rather cringe-worthy. Davies was able to bring out the best in these actors and lovingly crafted some of the best Dr Who stories and characters. We saw old favourites like The Daleks and Cybermen joined by Weeping Angels in episodes that were, for what was in effect a kid's show, some of the scariest Dr Who ever.

Stephen Moffat took over and we saw some poor service given to Matt Smith whose Doctor was among the best performances of that character. It was a shame as Moffat was like Davies and held the show in great regard. He gave us Weeping Angels.

But he tried to do far too much and instead the show became too convoluted with story arcs that went nowhere. He tried to show too much companion back story and Clara who began really well ended up stinking up the show. His other companion Bill was among the shows poorest. Davies however had some of the greats. Rose, Martha and yes Donna who surprised me by becoming essential to the TARDIS and was given one of the best goodbye stories ever.

Moffat tried to get out of Davies shadow and got into a bit of a mess. He gave us new Daleks when nobody wanted them. At least he realised his mistake and they became an afterthought in Dalek episodes that were driven by old Dalek. He flopped disastrously when he did the same to Cybermen. His Egg Moon was diabolical but was Shakespeare compared to the pap that passes for writing in 11.

But his greatest achievement and service to Dr Who was Missy. He set the stage for a female Doctor.

Now the show is in the hands of someone called Chibnall who clearly has not a clue about The Doctor. His choice was Whittaker and she has managed to become the worst ever occupant of the TARDIS.

Demented sonic stick waving coupled with moronic facial expressions and babbling nonsense coming from her mouth, such as the 7 Grandmothers comment last week, have cemented her position as the worst ever 'Doctor'. She cannot act and for that, never mind her portrayal, deserves to be exterminated at the earliest opportunity or Doctor Who is doomed.

If I had to pick my Top 10 worst ever Dr Who episodes this whole series11 would fill that category. And this from a fan who saw the first ever Dr Who in 1963 age 8 and was hooked by The Dead Planet and the first ever appearance of a Dalek. Even as an adult I enjoyed the show and as an old man loved Russel Davies NuWho. But sadly since Moffat it has been going downhill until this point today as the finale of Series 11 takes Who to a level of rubbish that was until 2018 only imagined.

The latest nonsense shows that the people in charge have not got a clue. They cannot write a good Sci-Fi story. Landing on a planet after receiving 9 distress calls the woman in the clown suit and her 3 idiot disciples find their foe is an old enemy. What the 9 distress calls had to do with it is unknown but the acting was diabolical as usual from Whittaker who amazingly took 10 minutes to pull out her magic stick. What exactly she is reading is unknown as it's a stick made out of some junk back in Sheffield. There is no screen to read anything from but she gets huge amounts of information from it. She acts like a dribbling idiot as she babbles on inanely whilst making stupid facial expressions. And surely her outfit needs a nice machine wash by now. Everybody else is wearing something new.

Rubbish story, pathetic alien once again, lousy acting from the idiots in the TARDIS. We now know that a series 12 has been given to these morons and on the strength of what we have seen in 2018 I think Dr Who may not make it to a series 13 sadly.

Was this a finale or just plain filler. i cant believe what i just watched. Ist full of plot points that dont make sense. And terrible dialogue. Im calling for it, impeach Chris Chibnall. #impeachchrischibnall

This episode sees The Doctor answering a distress signal on the planet Ranskoor Av Kolos; over the years nine ships have called for help from the same location. The planet has a psychic field so they must wear special devices. When they meet Paltraki, the captain of a ship, who has no memory of who is or why he is there it becomes clear why they need the devices. Once he is given one he can explain more about the situation. It turns out that Tzim-Sha, the Stenza exiled after the series opener, is on this planet and he met the Ux, a race of two people with amazing telekinetic powers, who mistook him for their god. Graham it determined that he will kill Tzim-Sha for killing his wife despite The Doctor's warning that she will have nothing more to do with him if he does so.

This was a decent episode even if it didn't really feel like a season finale. The return of Tzim-Sha was an enjoyable reference back to start of the season, giving characters, most notably Graham, motives for revenge. The look of the planet, clearly filmed in a disused quarry felt like a nod to the 'classic' era of Doctor Who. The Ux are an interesting species although I would have liked it if were shown in greater detail just how they came to believe Tzim-Sha was their god given how quickly she persuaded them that they were wrong. I could have done without the sniper-robots as they were suicidally useless. On the plus side the episode had a great atmosphere and grew increasingly tense towards the end. The cast does a fine job; Jodie Whittaker impresses as The Doctor and Bradley Walsh stands out as Graham. Overall not the best episode of the series but it was still solid and felt like proper Doctor Who.

As predicted in my review of the first episode of this series the man in charge and head writer brought back his utterly lame villain from that episode.If Chris Chibnail was in charge of biscuit manufacture they would all be Rich Tea,or a dry cracker, bland and boring.The title sounds like the sort of tripe a spotty youth would scribble in his homework book, amateurish,daydreaming fantasy.He probably drew his monster beside it and coloured it in using his blue biro.Years later when approached by the BBC and given the huge responsibility of running one of their top shows Mr Chibnail decided to dig out his old homework books and get his adolescent drivel made.There is a wealth of fantastic genre writers out there and this is what we got stuck with. Brave? Bold? Ha, I think not.Get someone like Alan Moore to write a story I bet he could give you something that was brave,bold and new.You might not like it but it probably wouldn't bore you to death.

This was actually underwhelming! What the H--- is this? Please pick up the broken pieces of Doctor Who and glue them back together for the new years special.

So happy this awful season is over! Vote this up if you think Graham should just become The Doctor next season. He's the only thing good in this show.

I'll quit watching. I don't wanna watch this trash anymore. You can take your "Woman Doctor" idea an put your own trash can. You killed a legend Chibnall. Shame on you!