puppetmaker | New Who Review for Hell Bent

There is not much I can say about the last episode of this season without giving away a lot of what happens.

I can say that the acting was first rate. There was one set that made me smile especially the detail that went into it. The writing was good but some of this episode was hard to follow even after we saw the ending. Knowing the ending and watching the last half again, Caroline had fallen asleep the first time, really showed some of the quickly patched holes in the story.

It is a good ending and sets up possibilities. It also confirms some people’s fan fiction but I am sure that they don’t read fan fic at BBC Wales because it is pretty much forbidden by the NDA that everyone signs for this sort of thing.

I was very happy about this season over all. Lots of clever episodes and a through line that was not pounded on in the episodes but came out of the episodes.

And can we have Missy back soon? Please?

I do like how they referred to the War Doctor and all he did for Gallifrey. Here they President of Gallifrey is calling for the Doctor’s head and the army is saying No, we don’t think so.

I think that the President is Dalton’s character regenerated which makes him Rassilon or someone who thinks they are Rassilon and which is worse?

Clara is back but not back. Living, or not, between two heart beats and she ran off with Me in a diner that they are going to the end of the universe. Nice tip of the hat to Douglas Adams I think.

I adored the recreation of the original TARDIS. Loved every piece of it. It is a tribute indeed.

That the Doctor can be so single minded has been established more than once. That he will do anything once he has the bit in his teeth has been established.

The way they get him out of his hyper focus is rather brilliant yet simple. He forgets. Clara does to him what he did to Donna. And there is kind of a cosmic balance that is created there.

So the Doctor is off on his madcap adventures. Clara is off on her madcap adventures and never the two shall meet or shall they?

Either way the season really clicked for me. I liked the format of the two episodes telling one story. I liked how there was an overall arc but you weren’t hit over the head with it.

Looking forward to The Doctor and River off on an adventure and to what happens after that.

I am grateful for a good season of Doctor Who.