Boom

Moffat you nailed it!!! Very imaginative, very tense, rather unique.

This is what I was hoping for, genuinely the best episode for some time, it really did feel like Doctor Who, more science fiction, more tension, less magic and fantasy.

I've read quite a lot of scathing reviews and articles about this one, I don't get what they must have been watching, because this served as a reminder of what the show can be like.

This is the first time I really felt This Doctor and Ruby bringing it home together, they really played off one another so well, I felt the bond between them, I felt hsr character developed very well.

Some of the Moffat tropes are there, he really does love a religious army, think back to a good man goes to war, and he does love a reset button, it was interesting to see if he used the latter here.

9/10.

It's been years since Moffat left Doctor Who and yet he still got it. Doctor and Ruby have a great dialogue and Doctor isn't overly whimsical like in the past episodes. Here we see his emotions and fears and here he feels the most like The Doctor. Episode has a lot of suspense which is something that previous episodes lacked. I also like how dark it is in tone, but that's expected considering that the last Moffat season got pretty dark. Anyway overall I really liked this episode and I hope the rest od the episodes will be like this too. I'll give it a ten for motivation and that's everything I've got to say.

To sum it this episode up it's an emotional journey of the doctors life and him and Ruby developing so far characters together. The stakes are high and the tensions are extreme. This is an episode you shouldn't skip. This might turn out to be my favourite episode of the new series, they should make Moffat be the lead show runner instead of RTD.

The episode just has amazing acting especially with the top tier writing. You really feel the doctor genuinely worried about his death when he try's to keep his adrenaline low while on the landline. If Moffart comes back again after this episode Doctor Who is so back to how it was in the Matt Smith era which I'm here for.

An absolute classic which has a level of tension I don't think the show has ever attempted before.

It's ironic that the best episode in the new high budget Disney Who could have easily been done on the budget of McCoy's era. Essentially a bottle episode which normally would set warning bells going this episode had me transfixed; it is almost entirely driven by emotion and tension, far away from the complexities of some of Moffats earlier scripts.

This episode sold me on Ncuti for the first time - on that landmine suddenly he was the Doctor. The chemistry between him and Ruby that so many reviews talked of but I failed to see was plain to see in the moment when she approaches the Doctor early in the episode.

As a father I appreciated that this episode felt like it was a love letter to dads and their kids.

Wonderful, Moffat may say the show doesn't need him any more - I respectfully disagree.

Doctor who is back.

I've been mixed on most of dr who since 2018. S11 was pretty mid, s12 and 13 where nightmares and the 60th was a mess.

And I've liked s14 so far to he honest, it has some major flaws but it pleasantly surprised me.

But this THIS is doctor who. A thematically rich scifi story with a low scale setting but high key themes in which a charismatic lead tries desperately to make the people around them and keep hope in the heart of the universe.

This episode is nearenough perfect. I can't fault it. I'd give it a 10/10 if it wasn't for my mixed feelings about the arc which finds its way uncomfortably slotted into this episode.

But everything else is pretty much perfect, from the characters to the dialige to the rich themes. An epic with something to say, and one of my new favourite doctor who episodes.