The Timeless Children: An Answer Nobody Needed to a Question Nobody Asked
The Master explains the Timeless Child and rewrites the Doctor’s entire origin, in a finale that spends forty minutes on a retcon and forgets to be a story.
The Master explains the Timeless Child and rewrites the Doctor’s entire origin, in a finale that spends forty minutes on a retcon and forgets to be a story.
Spyfall Part Two strands the Doctor across three centuries, gives Sacha Dhawan the season’s best performance, and lets its own spy thriller evaporate.
The Doctor makes his stand on a farm two miles up a colony ship, and finally explains why he does any of it. Capaldi’s finest hour as the Twelfth Doctor.
A colony ship escaping a black hole runs at different speeds on different decks, and Bill spends a decade at the bottom of it while the Doctor loses minutes.
Death in Heaven ends series 8 with Cybermen in the graveyards and Missy loose. Fitting but depressing, with a couple of bits that jarred for me.
Dark Water kills Danny and finally unmasks Missy, but for me the creepy 3W skeletons can’t save a dishonest volcano twist and a messy finale opener.
The End of Time Part Two: Rassilon returns, Wilf knocks four times, and the Tenth Doctor refuses to go quietly. Here’s what I made of it.
The End of Time Part One brings the Master back wrong, gives Wilfred Mott the best scene of the era, and ends by opening a door onto the Time War itself.
Last of the Time Lords ends Series 3 with a year of occupation, the truth about the Toclafane, and Martha Jones walking the Earth, then walking away.
The Sound of Drums reveals Mister Saxon as the Master, newly elected Prime Minister, and pays off a season of hints with a truly nasty cliffhanger.
Utopia takes the Doctor, Martha and a returning Captain Jack to the end of the universe, where a kindly old professor keeps a fob watch he can’t explain.