The first ever season finale! There’s plenty to love and plenty to not love here.

Russell and Barnes set up the divergent universe nicely. They leave me looking forward to what comes next (which is probably the most important thing). It feels like an immediate sequel to Neverland in its writing style and convoluted plotting, but it all makes sense. It is a satisfying pay off to an 8th Doctor cliffhanger a year and a half in the making.

They stop our familiar and large cast of actors from bloating the story by giving them alternate “simulation” characters to get stuck into. The success of this varies across the set. Nicholas Courtney's TARDIS/ Brigadier is wonderful when written well, but the writing of his character takes a nose dive in the generally much worse second half.

The second half of part 2, with the animal army is significantly less satisfying than what comes before. It pushes the same meek joke way beyond breaking point. Even Sophie Alfred and Sylvester can't lift the limp scripting. It then all becomes the worst bits of The Five Doctors... but with Peter, Colin and Sylvester playing less interesting characters. I wish Gary Russell and Alan Barnes hadn’t split the writing duties, despite them both being great - the story loses its individual voice when it reaches the halfway point and becomes muddled.

My least favourite trope in fiction is puzzle solving and riddles. I don't think it translates well to drama, so that didn’t help in the middle.

The TARDIS turning against the Doctor feels very very wrong. Their "philosophising" of the word 'friend' is excruciating. The TARDIS acting as a jealous ex is even worse. It gets very camp and silly, Brigadier TARDIS bitching about all the companions, even if it is because it's infected with Zagreus energy.

I also really appreciate Charley's love for the Doctor is becoming increasingly overt. That makes me very happy. It's very 9th Doctor/ Rose, not quite tipping into a full on relationship. I'm so glad she decides to stay on the TARDIS. They are one of the Doctor/ companion duos for the ages.