Here's my breakdown of the finale.
First 30 minutes - nothing really happened here. The Doctor was on a plane, but he didn't actually do anything. The scenes with Missy on the plane were all needlessly prolonged and served no purpose except to raise more questions. How did the guards STANDING BEHIND HER no notice that she'd taken her cuffs off? Also, why was it so important that she kept Clara and The Doctor together? They hinted at some greater purpose for so long and then threw it all away in a few lines of dialogue? What the fuck?
Middle 15 minutes - dissatisfying and confusing climax. Again, The Doctor didn't really do anything here. Missy talked a lot, and Danny gave a rousing speech to a bunch of mindless drones that would do exactly as he told them anyway. In fact, he was one of the mindless drones, but that didn't matter because love. What useless lump of a writer decided that exploding cybermen would be a satisfying way to get rid of a problem caused by exploding cybermen???
The rest - no words. Moffat has said he doesn't want to bring that female timelord back because it's an old reference, but he's more than happy to keep beating the dead horse with the UNIT guy? It's actually comedic that The Doctor had the one moment he was actually about to do something snatched away from him. They rushed the scene with Danny talking from the afterlife (or something? I blinked and missed the explanation) so much. It's like they remembered that they needed to conclude his story with that kid, and forced it into 2 minutes. "Oh, the Doctor said that you could..." was the biggest motherfucking copout after a 2 weeks later that I've ever seen. The very end was dumb, too, but it might mean we're done with Clara so thank fuck.
Additional things that bothered me:
- Missy may or may not have had a TARDIS????
- The Timelords coming back is no longer an issue????
- CyberDanny took Clara to a cemetery because ????
- Still no mention of the post-it notes from the start????
Thank fuck this season is over. I think I'm done with this show.
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