Astonished by how much I liked this one. I had VERY little hope going in (because finale bullshit is almost universally never my thing) but this was deeply fascinating, and I will still probably enjoy it lots even if the next part is dog-water. The large-ensemble cast of RTD-2 who is weaponized here in a remarkably clever way, reorganizing a comfortable world into a terrifying landscape without any sort of nuance. The way this "Wish World" exists is just very well done, because it's the ultimate extreme of Conrad as a character, who is infantilized in a very scary way. He doesn't have room in his head for places that aren't Britain -- he can't picture bits of Africa and India and so they go away. Mel's line about life as a single woman is the high point of the episode, though Ibrahim nearly turning on the Doctor when he compliments him was another frightening highlight. I wish we could have spent even longer in this eerie bizarro world -- the wrongness of this episode was very up my street.

I don't give a rat's ass about Omega or The Rani's evil plan or Time Lord Lore or anything, I simply don't, because there's no way that the TV stuff will outdo the expanded material in that regard, and there's additionally pretty much no way the next episode delivers a satisfying narrative. But for a glimpse down a miserable uncanny valley, this was an absolute delight as far as I'm concerned.