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Not much more to say, just watch and enjoy. Whew.

I've always loved the Weeping Angels. Much better villains than the Cybermen or Daleks, but here's hoping they don't get overused. Maybe they're good because they haven't been overused, like the Daleks and the Cybermen. Seriously, Doctor Who needs to keep up the original plots like this one.

The two time-stealing villains acts like they're in a heavily scripted show, happy to snarl and threaten but not touching the Doctor or her pals to vanquish them. Real villains don't do that, they eliminate threats. If those two villains can vanquish enemies just by touching them into dust, they sure act like cardboard villains in letting the Doctor (with befuddled face as usual) do as she wishes.

Yaz's role was very confusing, she supposedly is in about four different scenarios that are unrelated, including one uncharacteristic one as military commander? Huh? Why would she want to be a military bully?

Several times the Doctor's back is shown, as she hovers and scrambles talking to unresponsive gods. Looks like desperation to me.

All in all a very convoluted episode that pretends to be clever by throwing in tons of distractions (and that's what they're intended to do -- distract from the lack of a plot).

I loved watching the first two seasons (randomly selecting half of the episodes but focusing on the key changes to the plot) and when I found out Barney ended up with Robin (from Internet sources) I skipped straight to season 10, where again I focused on half the shows for that season, picking key moments where the mother shows up (I prevented myself from finding out who the mother was from Internet sources).

While I loved the idea of friendship and the friends really sticking up for each other, I came to realize they are toxic to each other, except Lily and Marshall who seemed to try to stay good people (good for them). Barney was portrayed by an amazing actor but his character was reprehensible except for his zest on life. Too bad he couldn't have channeled his energy into something positive aside from urging his friends to have fun, which itself was good.

I think Robin and Ted used each other, and Barney too used everyone else. Not what I would like in my friends. And forget the other minor characters who usually had very little integrity.

I know trading in shame and antics can make for entertaining television but I think they could have tried harder to make the characters more as real people and also better role models... I think it could be done.