Day Of The Doctor: right, here we go. The big one. 🙂

Ten years on, this still holds up as a fantastic achievement by Moffat. Season 7 was a bit iffy, so there was some slight trepidation heading into the 50th, but fair play, he pulled it off spectacularly. #DoctorWho

God, John Hurt was brilliant, wasn’t he? At both the comedy of taking the piss out of the others and the melancholy, world-weary material.

I’m a sucker for stories of redemption arcs, historical wrongs being righted etc. so the War Doctor’s story is right up my alley. #DoctorWho

More than once this reminds me of Back To The Future (which gets a namecheck) as that script is famously tightly-plotted with every part, every line, linking to or setting something up for later.

Kate’s plan to nuke London to save the Earth of course mirrors the War Doctor’s use of The Moment, and scanning the door with the sonic sets up the resolution of the whole story. #DoctorWho

This final shot could probably be done better today, (maybe with actual moving footage of the faces superimposed instead of photos?) but what the hell, well done Moff. 👏

Right Russell, get someone to hold your beer… 😀 #DoctorWho

There’s some obvious padding to fill this out to movie length, noticeably Strax’s medical exam of Clara, albeit still very funny.

And the battle at the end between the Paternoster gang and the clockwork droids seems to go on a bit too long. #DoctorWho

Into The Dalek: the harsher edges of the Twelfth Doctor start to get more defined now, with his utterly callous disregard for the people who die along the way.

I don’t know why anyone ever thinks this is a good idea. It didn’t work with Colin and it doesn’t work here. #DoctorWho

You can sort of imagine how Matt Smith would have played some of these lines. The “Get it right!” to Journey Blue would’ve been softer, more encouraging.

Instead she practically gets Malcolm Tucker yelling “GET IT FUCKING RIGHT!” at her. 😕 #DoctorWho

I hope the Coal Hill School Secretary in 1963 acted the same as the one we see here:

“I’m looking for the address of one of my pupils, Susan Foreman.”

“Ooh, I bet you are!”

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I don’t know why Clara is not sure whether he’s “a good man” after everything they’ve been through together.

And where has this hatred of soldiers come from all of a sudden? Poor old Brigadier. #DoctorWho

And this episode shows exactly how to have a grumpy, irritable Doctor without alienating the viewers - just have someone else give as good as they get. The oneupmanship between him and Robin, especially in the dungeons, give us some of the funniest scenes in ages.

Too often the Twelfth Doctor, and the Sixth before him, just acts like a dick without any consequences or comeback. #DoctorWho

There’s a big logical flaw at the heart of this episode: we’re told the bank can only be broken into on one day in its history, when the solar storm disrupts the systems. But the storm will also interfere with the TARDIS, so they can’t use that to materialise inside…

So why not just time travel to ANY OTHER DAY IN THE BANK’S EXISTENCE, and use the TARDIS to get inside then??

I guess the Doctor just enjoyed the idea of doing a heist, even if people’s lives are put at risk. 🤷🏻‍♂️ #DoctorWho

I like the very funny use of pictures of bad guys from all across the #DoctorWho universe to represent the most wanted criminals.

And also how Abslom Daak’s one has to be a drawing. 😄

The Caretaker: I like the premise of this one, vaguely similar to Human Nature but without the memory loss. And played for laughs.

The opening montage intercutting Clara’s two lives with Danny and the Doctor is very good too. #DoctorWho

The Doctor finds it incomprehensible that an ex-soldier would now have a job as a maths teacher.

Er…

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