I like Missy actually respected the memory of River Song, of what she meant to the doctor.
Loved the twist in the cold open.
I knew from the setup of the cold open it was a Moffat episode. That and he would be more likely to write an episode featuring Missy and the explanation of the vault.
I thought this was a great episode. We had mysteries throughout most of the episode, and they all got explained in the end. I loved it. I loved the doctor being a copy inside the simulation, and fighting back in the only small way he could. I loved the little bit of existential suffering by Nardole and Bill. I wanted more, and i wanted more dialogue from the doctor, but in the end, he was only a shadow of the true doctor. Or maybe he was a fully real one, like his brain was fully scanned and digitized. It's horrifying either way. That this hologram doctor is indistinguishable from our real doctor, and we saw another of his death's. Infact, he had kind of been tortured by this alien species for information previously. I liked it. The comparison to a video-game was a bit heavy handed and simplified for my liking, but i'll take it. I would have liked the much more straight-forward version of that they are real consciousness, but artifically created, and they have to accept their deaths as fake beings. The doctor could have soothed Bill's suffering, but he didn't. Maybe he was so focused on trying to escape or send a message to the real doctor.
I wanted more anger from the doctor at the end, but it was nice to see his reaction. I wanted more anger because it was basically him that was killed. It reminded me of the John Smith situation in season 3, and i thought the doctor would be a lot more angry with the aliens who killed another version of him.
Review by WardVIP 8BlockedParentSpoilers2023-12-21T02:41:04Z
I like Missy actually respected the memory of River Song, of what she meant to the doctor.
Loved the twist in the cold open.
I knew from the setup of the cold open it was a Moffat episode. That and he would be more likely to write an episode featuring Missy and the explanation of the vault.
I thought this was a great episode. We had mysteries throughout most of the episode, and they all got explained in the end. I loved it. I loved the doctor being a copy inside the simulation, and fighting back in the only small way he could. I loved the little bit of existential suffering by Nardole and Bill. I wanted more, and i wanted more dialogue from the doctor, but in the end, he was only a shadow of the true doctor. Or maybe he was a fully real one, like his brain was fully scanned and digitized. It's horrifying either way. That this hologram doctor is indistinguishable from our real doctor, and we saw another of his death's. Infact, he had kind of been tortured by this alien species for information previously. I liked it. The comparison to a video-game was a bit heavy handed and simplified for my liking, but i'll take it. I would have liked the much more straight-forward version of that they are real consciousness, but artifically created, and they have to accept their deaths as fake beings. The doctor could have soothed Bill's suffering, but he didn't. Maybe he was so focused on trying to escape or send a message to the real doctor.
I wanted more anger from the doctor at the end, but it was nice to see his reaction. I wanted more anger because it was basically him that was killed. It reminded me of the John Smith situation in season 3, and i thought the doctor would be a lot more angry with the aliens who killed another version of him.