Oh s**t, here we again

Again, hate to be a hater, but what the hell???

I wasn't expecting this episode to be good, like at all, but just turned out to be way worse than my worst expectations. Firstly, Susan? Who? I don't know her, do you? All that hype for her and then she doesn't appear at all. Rogue? No sign for him either. Although I enjoyed Anita being back and the use of the time hotel, it still is a cheap way escape the Doctor from certain death, but that's a corner Russell wrote himself up to.

So many explanations that are shallow, plain and rushed, just to move forward the many plots on the screen. Rani doesn't do anything and immeaditely is eaten by Omega, loads of lazy lore dump and plot exposition in the UNIT bridge, Belinda got sidelined again and what a disastrous use of Omega. They literrally pulled Omega, now a gray CGI mess, out of fin air, and the Doctor just blasts him away with the vindicator, barelly being 5 minutes into screen and doesn't represent any menace whatsoever.

Russell doens't know what's going on, what direction to go or even allow himself to write a sad ending. "Poppý is real!", "Poppy isn't real!", "Poppy is the Doctor's daughter", "Poppy isn't the Doctor's daughter!" C'mon Russell, pick up something and commit to it! Also, it's so weird this episdode endeded up being a regeneration story, because there's no arc being completed here, it's not a final showdown for 15, it's a forced regeneration due to Ncuti's decision to leave the Tardis. It was a little neat for the 13th Doctor to make a cameo, but honestly, why?? Her cameo doesn't change a thing in the story, if cut out of the episode we wouldn't miss it, it's just there because Russell wanted so.

Also, what a terrible way to regenerate the Doctor. I don't buy anything from it, at all. He simply giving his lifeforce away, because Russell can't allow himself to do a sad ending and have everyone go back to their normal lifes, with the cost of Wish World's Poppy never have existed (and she was never real). And with that, we've got Belinda being retconed as Poppy's mother and, all this time, she was trying to get home for her daughter all along.

And then, at last, the regeneration. It's nice that 15 regenerated in front of Joy, but what came after is just wrong. All of the suthen, Billie Piper's face is what we see after the regeneration. I don't hater Billie, she's a wonderful actor. What bugs me is  that they're repeating what they've done with the 14th Doctor. She was one the show's protagonists for 2 seasons, had plenty of cameos afterwards and even apperead on The Day of The Doctor and now she's The Doctor?? WTF???? This is truly the worst thing that could happen to Doctor Who, to endlessly recicle it's past, to appeal constantly to nostalgia, just to become a shallow representation of itself, with nothing new to say. The press material after the episode doesn't help either. She's not creddited as The Doctor anywhere, and they even say "who, why and when, you will have to wait to find out". No! Just no! Just commit to that dumb idea all the way through. You made her face to appear after the regeneration, so make her the Doctor. I just can't help myself to think that she is just stunt cast, a place holder Doctor, until they decide exactly what the next steps are going to be. But then again, why show her face at first? We could just have a open ended regeneration, like Jodies almost was, without showing any new face.

At the end of the day, it's Doctor Who and I love it so much I'll be watching whatever comes next up untill my last breath, but I can't help myself coming to a conclusion that this was Doctor Who at it's lowest. The worst episode ever, countig with the revival, with classic era, this is the worst of the worst, with even Dimensions in Time being a better experience than this one. I just hope RTD's day as showrunner are coming to an end, because we deserve so much better.