Modern #DoctorWho’s always struggled slightly with how to convincingly show someone abandoning their whole life to go travelling with the Doctor.

RTD’s solution was to have the families involved and know what was going on, but Moffat seemed to have little interest in doing that.

(I’m sure that’s why Amy’s family were swallowed by the crack, so he didn’t have to deal with them!)

Here he finally hits upon his own solution: have the companions only travel part-time, an idea which lasts from now all the way into Chibnall’s era. #DoctorWho

This main flaw here is how the ending just basically repeats The Lodger: ‘Craig’s love for Sophie solves the plot’ becomes ‘Craig’s love for his baby solves the plot’.

The moment he starts to turn into a Cyberman the entire resolution of the episode becomes obvious. #DoctorWho

Ah. Clara (okay, Oswin).😐

Moffat gets a lot of stick for writing characters (especially women) as nothing but quippy, wisecracking and sex-obsessed… but Christ I don’t think any were ever written like that as much as Clara’s debut here. #DoctorWho

Dinosaurs On A Spaceship: a fun little episode, with the most ‘does exactly what it says on the tin’ title ever (I’d love to hear Samuel L. Jackson saying the sweary version).

Chibnall getting in some practice for writing a packed TARDIS crew, with lots of characters. #DoctorWho