It would have been nice to not know that. Miserable mess of an episode, but I did actually heavily enjoy it. I have a hard time hating something as messily entertaining as that.

Big big caveat: the plot ends 25 minutes in . Omega and the Rani are defeated and it’s done and the second half of the story is incredibly messy . That was fairly idiotic. But the second half is . well, it’s more cohesive.

I am sick of the pageantry that regeneration specials have become. I feel the same way about Power of the Doctor in that I had immense joy about the cameos and performances but apathy about the story itself . Give me a caves of Androzani again. Give me a planet of the spiders again. A normal story where Dr. who’s back is against the wall and he has to do the unthinkable.