I think this might be the oddest episode of this program that I've seen, and not cause of it's actually contextually weird, but because it feels like it's genuinely been pulled from a false reality into this one. One giant afterthought, really. I don't this story was meant to be a two-parter originally but it was stretched out- without the thought that there would be an actual regeneration. I think Billie Piper coming back is actually lovely, but the expense of Ncuti Gatwa? I don't know, man. I think it's fairly obvious that HER coming back and oddly not being credited as the Doctor was a deliberate choice, so I'm not saying it wasn't entirely thought out, but, like... It was rushed. We all know it was rushed. And yet, that doesn't mean it's bad television on it's own. I like the potential it promises, and the actual writing is pretty nice. The emotional beats were there, they did hit for me. Perhaps I shouldn't like it as much as I do, I can also acknowledge that.

It does act as a good time, even if there's a lot of flaws to it. Kind of a mix of "so bad it's good" and "so unnatural it's interesting". Definitely going to be hated for a wide majority of the audience, though.