Reviews

This absolutely is one of the best shows of all time. I still believe the show doesn't fall apart after the original ending of season five. Yes there are poor episodes but the first five seasons had shocking episodes too (e.g. Just look at bugs). There are also truly amazing episodes from season 6-11.

Now yes I did say 6-11 because for me that's where i choose to end this from now on. This series could have ended with the season 11 finale. All we needed was no London Man of Letters scenes and use the time to fix up some happily ever after/loose ends etc.

While yes there are definitely good episodes in season 12-15 (I could name 10 quite easily), there are never any truly great episodes. So my rating goes from a 10/10 for the seasons 1-11 to a 7/10 overall, in my opinion.

And not just the best Christmas Special but one the best episodes of Doctor Who episodes of the nearly 60 years of the show now.

While there were so many silly scenes and bad jokes, being a Christmas Special these things are expected and I feel fit in with the one off genre of the year, where it makes the show all the better.

The scenes were all you could expect from doctor who in one episode. From bad jokes, silliness, a little seriousness, sad, sweet and very emotional.

While one of the characters (I think we all know who) is quite annoying and doesn't fit in to the Doctor Who universe as a "companion", once again as a Christmas Special it works, he also does grown on you.....just it takes till half way through the next season. We also get The best companion that fits with more than one Doctor.

This should have been the FINAL episode ever or at least before another hiatus of Doctor Who, as yes while there are still quite a lot of good episodes after this, there is never anymore truly magnificent ones anymore...

...But more importantly this COULD have been the final episode and I don't think any single person could have complained abut it being the last. And if you so desire it gives you the chance to end it here on a re-watch. This episode really was that good.

A DIRECT AND BORING BUT SPOILER FREE REVIEW

First off everyone complaining about the dialogue and music being too soft and too loud over each other, I found at least with myself it was my TV setting, a quick adjusting of the surround settings and equalizer fixed it.

Also people who gave up on this series too quickly, I can understand that it was too slow at the start and I can completely agree with that ( I rated those episodes low too). Things do however pick up in episode 4 (it wasn't great but improved).

The level of the show continues to go up until around episode 10 where thing start getting a little stale and full of at best just passable episodes such as episodes 10, 11 and 12. Luckily the original season finale ep13 was the best one yet and it seemed like they pulled their fingers out.

Unfortunately we get at best passable fillers for episodes 14 and 15. We then also get a filler for episode 16 but this one is at least well done (I gave it a 7/10).

Then we get to the business end of the season starting with episode 17, where while not worth 100% still gets above 9.5 so I rounded it up to 10. The finale, or new finale didn't quite live up to the previous episode but I think was still very good and I was tempted to give this a 10/10 too but the zoom out at the end seemed an overly unnecessary way to tell you there will be a season 2 so I gave this a 9/10.

Anyway I crunched the numbers (added all my ratings up and divided them by number of episodes) and can so far give this series exactly 7.222222222

I will edit and continue this review after season 2.

But still fairly good. Felt like a bit of a repeat of season 6 in some parts at least. I particularly kept thinking to myself "Tick tock goes the clock"

And the best episode since "Heaven Sent". Really i would rate this in Capildi's top 5 episodes (at least to date of this episode). Absolutely everything is amazing about it. I particularly liked Nardole being a bad ass even if it was for only about 30 seconds...huh...I think I'm starting to like him.

Finally an episode that had substance, depth, proper sci-fi and not just running around and away from a horrible CGI monster. Most importantly an episode actually in space, we don't get enough of those in New Who, especially in recent seasons. Glad Bill got a taste of her own medicine about the racism thing too, yes it is that easy to be accused of being racist.

But why oh why is Nardole still here. There is something very wrong with that character. It's like they are trying to lighten up the story after a dark couple of seasons, but all they are doing is annoying me.

The rest of the story was a repeat of what we have seen several time already on Doctor Who but still okay.

While a little bit more exiting than last weeks episode, this still had the same form in the rushed ending. The bit about being black in 1800's England was done way better with 10th Doctor and Martha in the Shakespearean era, but I guess they have to repeat themselves nearly word from word every now and then?

Once again we have a rushed Doctor Who episode, which had potential but was ruined be the quick end. The first 30 minutes seemed a little boring but at least it was bringing the concept of the episode together. It was however far to slow and so they had to throw together the last 15 minutes to fix the complication quick.

Overall the performance was mediocre at best and then fell further flat and short at the end making this a very disappointing episode.

Defiantly pushing Doctor Who in a direction that it should not be going in. The corniness of the super hero saving the girl was done well for what it was. Still better than all post 2014 marvel movies.

This is The Doctor I grew up with, can and will do absolutely anything when you piss him off.

I have said it before and I will say it again. Capaldi really reminds me of Eccleston's Doctor. While Capaldi has had some absolutely horrendous episodes let down by the writers and especially the scripts, when given the right opportunities like this one, he does great. Still the man wrecked by war......well kinda yeah, He did fight at the battle of Trenzalore for about 1000 years, so that's why I enjoy these darker episodes, like what you got from the 9th Doctor. They are both damaged by wars and you get to truly see it.

And this is without a doubt THE worst episode to date and I wished i slept through it.

When I say prefer i mean immensely. That had a good story behind it. This on the other hand is just horrible. I actually forgot this episode existed and now I wished it stayed that way. Now I've seen it again and have this feeling it's going to stay in my memory forever.

It's already bad, and I've been seeing the downhill trend, with no signs of going back up.

There is nothing wrong with this episode - "it's nothing, nothing, definitely sure, 99% sure, really 99%? That's quite high, is that the figure you're sticking with? Okay, okay 75, wow that's dropped quite a bit, you just lost 24%". And that is how this episode works with The Doctor's very own logic. It starts good and get's worse, unlike the episode where this line was taken from. This final however goes much lower than that, I'm sure there's something half decent in the whole 60 minute hour somewhere. That is why this get's a 1/10 (there are times I wish i could give 0/10 too).

If you don't like "Victory of the Daleks", "The Rings of Akhaten." and above all "Closing Time": Then you won't like this either, They are all resolved with love and this is just another of Moffat's BS.

The worst Cybermen story ever, the worst Doctor Who finale ever, that all of Doctor who not just New Who. THE worst.

Could have been a full episode of soap opera rather than just half...Yes that really is about the only positive here. The episode became quite boring with the big reveal was already revealed in last weeks "next time". Making it too bring because you know what's coming.

Why don't they show all the soap opera stuff in the next time and leave the real part of the story out, as to not ruin the actual interesting parts. I'm going to watch next weeks episode regardless, no need to try twist my arm. Just watching, hoping it gets better (losing more and more hope every episode). Doesn't mean I will stop watching, just means you will see more low ratings on here.

The monsters this time were not only new but genuinely 10/10 good. There was a let down with the ending that cause the 9/10 I'm giving. Obviously they couldn't think of a good way to stop the monsters and save the people. Luckily the bulk of the story is the deadly 2-D monsters.

Another great thing I did like about this and previous recent episodes, is that the writers seemed to have finally listen and now have people dying like they use to back in RTD's era (and without bringing them back).

Very top marks with too much of an easy fix, but so great to see something new and the whole episode use to the best of it's ability.

After a couple of weeks with horrible stories and annoying characters, we end up with a story that although obviously done many times, actually fits in well. It is very different from the original story that the idea came from, a bit far out there but overall good.

Season 8 thus far has been remarkably good. I was worried it wasn't going to work, but there seems to have been stories already written and put aside for a different Doctor than Matt Smith. I can understand why, these sorts of episodes wouldn't work for Matt Smith's Doctor and on the opposite not work great with Peter Capaldi's.