World Enough and Time

Trailers are not for fans. They are meant to attract new viewers and to remind "sometimes viewers" that there's a new episode coming soon.

If you're a fan of a series - any series - hit the mute button and close your eyes for 20-30 seconds when a trailer for a future episode or season starts to play. If you're not a fan, and you watch the trailer, it may convince you to watch the show and it doesn't spoil many of the big reveals, shocks or plot twists because you're not familiar enough with the series to even understand most of them. But if you're a fan of the series, and you go ahead and watch the trailers - you've got nobody to blame but yourself for ruining the surprises. Complaining about it afterwards, or deducting a point from your review because YOU went ahead and allowed the surprises to be spoiled is kind of ridiculous.

It will be nice in a few years where all of the TV's are smart enough to know who's a fan of what and perhaps play trailers without any spoilers for "fans" of a series, or maybe swap out the trailer completely for "fans" and instead market a different series to you - one that you're not already a fan of - but for now, we don't have that and you all know what trailers are and how to avoid them - mute the audio and close your eyes.

It's not that hard. I do it all the time - and yes, I can see how a bit of foreknowledge could have diminished ones enjoyment of the latest episode - but, as I managed to avoid any foreknowledge - I greatly enjoyed this episode. I give it a 10 as I do most of Stephen Moffat's finales. There were a few bits of dialog I could have done without - but not enough to diminish my enjoyment of the episode.

There were a couple of reviewers that gave this episode a 4 rating and quoted some plot holes as one of the reasons for their low number. Seriously? Do these people realize that this was part 1 of 2? How can you complain about plot holes halfway through a story? Especially a Stephen Moffat story! He ties up all plot elements better than any other writer I know of. There's no way Moffat is going to give us a lame, unimaginative ending like Lost did. I hope that the 4's come back next week and upgrade their ratings after they see how deftly and cleverly Moffat wraps things up next week.

I can't say any more about the episode without spoiling something, so I'll let my 10 speak for itself and remind Who fans to NOT watch the trailers if they plan to watch the episode!!!

I don't think a summary is possible, as there was genuinely so much going on, a fast paced, dark, action packed, witty script, excellent special effects.

The penultimate episode of Series 10 was superb, perhaps the darkest episode since Dark Water. I'd be so bold as to say this is perhaps the best episode I've seen for some years, I can't remember feeling so desperate for a concluding episode since perhaps Journey's End. Some truly chilling moments, Bill walking round hooked up to a drip, with early Cybermen sat around.

Incredibly good performances, John Simm returned with a bang, a fabulous performance from him, not the out of control Master we last saw, but a measured, controlled performance, and nice to see him back in a disguise. The interplay between him and Gomez was a highlight.

I loved the almost 60's music that accompanied it, took me back to The Tenth Planet, the big win though came from the return of the Mondassian Cybermen, about time, they worked incredibly well. They looked and sounded just as I'd wished they would.

My only criticism here will be aimed at the media, I purposely ignore news on the show, avoid the trailers, but far too much was given away by the media. I can only imagine the impact of Mr Razor's unmasking, had I not seen the revelation in a newspaper.

Unbelievably good. 10/10

World Enough and Time is a phenomenal episode of television. It's shocking, genuinely unnerving, and packs absolutely massive cliffhangers. Talalay directs it to perfection, but Moffat's layered and smart script is great as well. It also looks great and the score is good. My only complaint is that Peter Capaldi didn't get enough screen time.

So for me this had been a pretty average series up until now. Having seen this episode though.. All I can say is this, if next weeks episode is on par with this one, it can be the best two-parter in all of NuWho.

I won't spoil anything, but I'm sure everyone will hear the hype about this, and it is totally deserving of it. It's well written, directed and edited. It's also creepy as hell, which is great because that's when Doctor Who is as it's best.

I don't want this series to end, but at the same time I need to see the conclusion right now..

As always with the Capaldi era Doctor Who, Rachel Talalay directs the two part series finale. Unlike the previous series, showrunner Steven Moffat has concluded that being too hard against leaking spoilers can be counterproductive with viewers.

So we knew from the official BBC press release and from the trailers that the Mondas Cybermen will return after almost 50 years as well as John Simm reprising his role as the Master.

Apparently the pre-title sequence which saw the Doctor emerging from the Tardis exuding regeneration energy was only filmed a few days before broadcast. The rest of the episode was shot some months ago. However the impact of it was probably lost due to the rather pointless fake regeneration we saw just a few episodes ago.

As Moffat seems to have trouble keeping his companions dead, the shock of seeing Bill blasted with a big hole in the middle of her chest also probably induced a groan with the viewers who figured this would just be one of those timey-wimey things and the companion would come back to life somehow.

However this is not to say this was a bad episode. It was an atmospherically macabre and eerie episode. It is just that the Moffat tropes have become tired to the general viewer and it shows in the decline in viewing figures for this series.

The Tardis crew land inside a spaceship which has sent out a distress call. Missy is leading the disposables as he calls Bill and Nardole or should it be Exposition and Comic Relief. The spaceship is 400 miles long and 100 miles wide and trying to escape from being sucked into a black hole.

Bill is shot by a trigger happy Blue person and is taken to the lower floors where a chest unit is fitted into her to keep her alive and she meets a Mr Razor, played by an actor with heavy make up. He actually reminded me off the actor Michael Sheen, who is famous for playing Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister of United Kingdom.

What Bill discovers is that the hospital has patients who are heavily bandaged and in pain. Their agony being dealt with by turning the volume of their screams down.

On the upper floors and with time moving deferentially because of the gravitational effects of the Black Hole is the Doctor trying to locate Bill. When he finally gets to the lower floor what he finds is the genesis of the Cybermen and two Masters.

Not knowing how the concluding part will go, this was a creepy, tense and thrilling episode. Moffat has certainly delivered a classic aided by Talalay's direction.