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Answering nine separate distress calls, the Doctor and team arrive on the remnants of a brutal battlefield on the planet Ranskoor Av Kolos. This planet has many secrets. An amnesiac commander? Mysterious mists? Who or what are the Ux? A deadly reckoning awaits the Doctor and team once they have the answers....

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Doc Who S11 Ep 10 WATCHALONG

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Joe Cleveland

I don’t know what he would change, but Chibnall has said in interviews that he’s not satisfied with this episode. He had to do some work on other episodes that was extra/unanticipated and he ran out of time at the end of the season. He says that with this episode, they basically filmed a first draft of a script. I have gotten a little exhausted by the “epic!” season endings that RTD and Moffatt went for. Some of them are really fun, but I kind of like just a regular episode. (And in some ways, the stakes seem higher this season because, unlike with Moffatt or even RTD, people—people we like!—are in real danger of being actually killed.) I kind of like that the “big” ending is that our TARDIS team has grown from a sort of random and involuntary group into ‘the fam,’ and the ethic as they travel on is to “travel hopefully.” (That’s very Doctor Who — almost right out of the mouth of the Doctor’s granddaughter, Susan, in the Sensorites 1st Doctor story.) And the idea of people’s faith being taken advantage of? That we can see something as truth that is not truth? That feels really relevant.

Jason Jeffery

This episode is kinda dog but Graham as usual made this bearable. Honestly the best thing about this season is him.

michael moslin

Gets too much hate because it is a finale. A solid episode that is not quite fitting for finale. But then again look at the rubbish from RTD2. His two finales stunk.

michael moslin

RTD dropped the ball with his last couple of finales

Joe Cleveland

I am tempted to say he dropped the ball even before he got to the finales, but maybe that would be un-generous. Every season having to end with the biggest threat the Doctor has ever faced—as soon as bigness and epic-ness is the goal the ball may already be slipping from your hands.

Kodi mann

Grace is the throughline instead of some big threat it just dealing with the lost of one person. And the I don't know at the end is kind of reflect even when you deal with that lost there is no clear path. I also much more of a characters person then plot person. I like have a season more focus on characters .

JY

One of the worst episodes of Doctor Who and a terrible finale too. Unbelievably boring which is probably one of the worst things a Doctor episode could be. So meaningless too. The conflict with The Doctor and Graham goes nowhere and it's not really explored enough in an interesting way. So many avenues they could have gone with this and they just waste it. There's nothing of value in this episode other than Graham and Ryan finally getting along. Genuinely nothing interests me about this episode. Even the neural balancers & concept of planets affecting characters aren't explored enough either. Yaz is mostly wasted again, the confrontation with Tim Shaw and Graham is underwhelming, the episode also ends in a very underwhelming way. There's not much substance with the arc either. There's nothing exciting or fun or emotional about this episode. No memorable scenes or moments. The side characters aren't developed enough either. Tim Shaw's defeat is also not satisfying. The stakes don't feel high even though the circumstances are supposed to be. Overall, this episode is just mind numbingly boring and that's sometimes worse than your typical messy episode. Yeah, this is such a poor story for me. There's no gradual build up to Tim Shaw other than the first two episodes which weakens that even more for me.