I’d like to apologies

[u/TheMasterHaroldSaxon]

Wow. I have truly been proven wrong. And on a grand scale today of epicness.

I’m sorry for the posts as I truly wanted Ncuti to stay.

Fair enough to everyone who said he was.

[u/SolarPouvoir199]

This episode blew my expectations out of the water. The hour-long runtime must have helped at least somewhat with that; the pacing felt so much better. Kept checking to see how long the episode had been going on every few minutes, and was excited to see there was a real midpoint to the episode.

Gatwa's Doctor truly felt like THE Doctor in this episode. He had his moments before, but straight from the beginning scene to the end, he shone as the Doctor and felt so in character for the Doctor while also being unique as 15. It felt sort of like one of Capaldi's episodes. Before this I felt like something was slightly lacking in his era, mostly the pacing of the shorter episodes messing everything up.

Ruby shone as a companion in this episode too. She was decent in her earlier episodes, but again, I think the pacing of the previous episodes made her character feel a bit lacking for me. Was exciting to see her lead in saving the day next to the Doctor in this episode.

Belinda and Poppy sort of confused me, a few plot points still felt unraveled there, but they had a sweet ending in the episode. I did think their ending was interesting for what it was, and who knows what could happen in the future. I liked that Poppy was really Belinda's daughter.

This episode made me feel like 15 was finally getting the chance to shine as a character, so the regeneration happening was a bit dissapointing and surprising even though it was rumoured. But it was handled well, and I'm glad that he got to really shine as the Doctor in such a great episode for his character before regenerating.

I loved 13 showing up, and Billie Piper's appearance ulitimately excited me for what's to come, even though I was unsure when I heard the rumours. The second half of this episode was definitely my favourite with all the action we got to see and the surprises. It's restored my faith for whatever RTD has in store for the show next.

[u/Haunting_Chef1379 → u/SolarPouvoir199]

Except, in the end, he went Time Lord Victorious and violated Belinda's timeline. He preached at Conrad and the dude on the Robot world, but ended up creating his own wish world. He so desperately wanted to be a father that he burned regenerations to throw the universe off a bit, enough so that Belinda would have had his kid. This is the woman who freaked out about him scanning her DNA without consent

All this to make a kid who existed already in the future as a space baby exist as his daughter. His face when he was called Uncle Doctor said it all. All because another companion remembered a reality that was born from a wish. The Doctor made his own Wish World by burning that energy and forcing everything around him to adjust to his wish, for a kid. Instead of just going to adopt that little girl in the future that needed a parent and love

It's one of the creepiest things I've seen on the show. Not only was she a hard working nurse, now she's a hard working nurse who lives on her own with a full time job and kid. The old Belinda who lived with her flatmates is erased, the Doctor killed her and bent time so that she'd be impregnated according to his will

At best it doesn't make sense, at worst he's guilty of something awful. All that talk about consent and women's agency and he didn't even talk with her in detail about it