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Not a whole lot of plot there, but it was nicely done. To be honest, I've have sat through almost anything just to get to enjoy another hour of Peter Capaldi's Doctor. I'm going to miss him dreadfully, even though I'm really looking forward to Jodie Whitaker too. But Twelve (at least the Twelve in the last two seasons) is the first Doctor I've really, really loved since Nine, and that's hard to let go of.
I really enjoyed the interactions between the two Doctors, even if I agree with other commenters that they did seem to be making too big a point of One's un-political correctness. I thought the smacked bottom comment, in particular, was a bit inappropriate for family viewing – although, to be honest, if they'd left it at just his comment, it would have been fine; it was Bill's shocked and amused reaction and Twelve's agreement with that that made it into something much bigger.
Anyway. I groaned a bit at Mark Gatiss getting to make one last appearance in Moffat's Who, but actually he was okay, pretty understated and not too big a part of things. (I still would have loved to see another Captain get picked up out of WWI though!) I loved Bill as always and am just as sad to see her go as I am Peter Capaldi.
I felt Testimony was a nice, neat way to deal with the Doctor(s) not wanting to regenerate and that worked for me, even if the life-after-death thing is starting to get more than a little repetitive. It made me realise that this is clearly an issue that Steven Moffat feels the need to explore (perhaps like I'm still busy trying to get to grips with the idea of Jack living forever, even after all this time) as he's brought it into an awful lot of his stories over the years. Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead (uploading to the virtual world), Let's Kill Hitler (the Tesselecta), Dark Water/Death in Heaven (more uploading after death), not to mention all the people who've died and then been brought back, like Rory, Strax, Ashildr/Me, Clara. (Heh, I don't know, perhaps even the idea for Jack doing that came from Moffat originally?) Hell, even things like Day of the Doctor, retconning the killing of everyone on Gallifrey and making it just hidden instead, almost comes into this category. I wonder if Moffat has resolved his issues with this yet, or if there'll be more to come in whatever he writes next?
Back to the episode. I liked the use of the Christmas armistice, even if it did feel a little shoe-horned in. I liked the goodbye to the companions (I'm going to miss Nardole too, and that's something I never ever thought I'd say! He really grew on me!) and the Doctor getting back his memories of Clara. The goodbye speech went on a bit, but I rather liked the idea that in agreeing to carry on with "just one more life" he wanted to try extra hard to "get it right this time", which kind of made that make sense.
And oh, I think I'm going to love Jodie Whitaker. Just that little snippet was fantastic!
I really enjoyed the interactions between the two Doctors, even if I agree with other commenters that they did seem to be making too big a point of One's un-political correctness. I thought the smacked bottom comment, in particular, was a bit inappropriate for family viewing – although, to be honest, if they'd left it at just his comment, it would have been fine; it was Bill's shocked and amused reaction and Twelve's agreement with that that made it into something much bigger.
Anyway. I groaned a bit at Mark Gatiss getting to make one last appearance in Moffat's Who, but actually he was okay, pretty understated and not too big a part of things. (I still would have loved to see another Captain get picked up out of WWI though!) I loved Bill as always and am just as sad to see her go as I am Peter Capaldi.
I felt Testimony was a nice, neat way to deal with the Doctor(s) not wanting to regenerate and that worked for me, even if the life-after-death thing is starting to get more than a little repetitive. It made me realise that this is clearly an issue that Steven Moffat feels the need to explore (perhaps like I'm still busy trying to get to grips with the idea of Jack living forever, even after all this time) as he's brought it into an awful lot of his stories over the years. Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead (uploading to the virtual world), Let's Kill Hitler (the Tesselecta), Dark Water/Death in Heaven (more uploading after death), not to mention all the people who've died and then been brought back, like Rory, Strax, Ashildr/Me, Clara. (Heh, I don't know, perhaps even the idea for Jack doing that came from Moffat originally?) Hell, even things like Day of the Doctor, retconning the killing of everyone on Gallifrey and making it just hidden instead, almost comes into this category. I wonder if Moffat has resolved his issues with this yet, or if there'll be more to come in whatever he writes next?
Back to the episode. I liked the use of the Christmas armistice, even if it did feel a little shoe-horned in. I liked the goodbye to the companions (I'm going to miss Nardole too, and that's something I never ever thought I'd say! He really grew on me!) and the Doctor getting back his memories of Clara. The goodbye speech went on a bit, but I rather liked the idea that in agreeing to carry on with "just one more life" he wanted to try extra hard to "get it right this time", which kind of made that make sense.
And oh, I think I'm going to love Jodie Whitaker. Just that little snippet was fantastic!
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That line was straight out of one of One's original stories...
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Mostly though, then I found their particular reactions at that point hilarious! :)
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But yeah, you're probably right!
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Funny how we all see different things...
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