Stories Television Doctor Who Series 11 Episode: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos 2 images Overview Characters How to Watch Reviews 3 Statistics Related Stories Quotes 8 Transcript + Script Overview First aired Sunday, December 9, 2018 Written by Chris Chibnall Directed by Jamie Childs Runtime 49 minutes Story Type Series Finale Time Travel Future Tropes (Potential Spoilers!) Miniaturisation Location (Potential Spoilers!) Ranskoor Av Kolos UK Viewers 6.65 million Appreciation Index 79 Synopsis Team TARDIS discovers nine different distress calls, all coming from the same location on an unknown planet in the far future. Little does the Thirteenth Doctor know that her very first enemy has survived throughout the centuries, and is looking to get revenge upon her in a crueller way than is even imaginable. Watch Watched Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Edit date completed Custom Date Release Date Archive (no date) Save Characters Thirteenth Doctor Jodie Whittaker Graham O'Brien Bradley Walsh Yasmin Khan Mandip Gill Ryan Sinclair Tosin Cole Tzim-Sha Show All Characters (5) How to watch The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos: Watch on iPlayer Blu-Ray The Complete Eleventh Series [Steelbook] Blu-Ray The Complete Eleventh Series DVD The Complete Eleventh Series Reviews Add Review Edit Review Sort: Default Date (Newest First) Date (Oldest First) Likes (High-Low) Likes (Low-High) Rating (High-Low) Rating (Low-High) Word count (High-Low) Word count (Low-High) Username (A-Z) Username (Z-A) Spoilers First Spoilers Last 3 reviews 6 July 2025 New· · 203 words Review by BSCTDrayden 1 How is an episode with a returning villain, the Pirate Planet's cool planet crushing stuff, a unique concept for a race, and companion growth be SO boring??? Nothing actually happens for most of the run time, and despite being a yappy episode like some of my favourites of the series, the dialogue isn't particularly engaging or interesting to me. Despite enjoying the concepts here, I'm just not caring. And especially as the pace is so languid on top of the dialogue issues. Oh, and I just don't care even remotely about the side characters. Totally forgettable. This is also the first episode of the series I've found just straight up ugly to look at. It's so darkly lit throughout and it is honestly unpleasant. Plus the weird constant uncomfortable zoom instead on Tim Shaw??? This is still not completely awful or irredeemable though. As always, the acting is solid enough. And I love the Graham and Ryan subplot - it feels like a perfect ending to their set up arc. Overall, the ugliest finale of the show and maybe the least watchable. But not egregiously bad. I just don't care about it other than the Graham plot. What a waste of cool concepts. BSCTDrayden View profile Like Liked 1 1 June 2024 · 129 words Review by PexLives 1 Fortunately not half the flimsy, discordant, incomprehensible mess that I’d previously thought. Obviously I never bothered to rewatch this after the initial broadcast, and I liked it more in retrospect. I’ve been really enjoying Graham’s arc this season, and I’m actually a big fan of how it’s concluded here. Walsh’s performance is mainly what sells it. Is the episode good? No, but like it’s far from the worst that this season or the show has to offer. It still features an uncomfortably stilted and in charismatic lead performance. This is Chris’s best season finale unfortunately. 13’s era is by far the one I make the most comparisons to the classic era. This time I found myself constantly reminded of Time and the Rani. Make of that what you will. PexLives View profile Like Liked 1 6 April 2025 · 39 words Review by Dullish Spoilers 6 This review contains spoilers! Battle of Ranskoor av kolos Damn that's a long name Good finale, the return of fan favorite character Tim Shaw. Graham has the chance for revenge but doesn't take it becoming a better man. Ryan and Graham bonding moment. Dullish View profile Like Liked 6 Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating848 members 2.04 / 5 Member Statistics Watched 1708 Favourited 23 Reviewed 4 Saved 1 Skipped 3 Related Stories Target Collection Citation Needed Rating: 3.65 Story Skipped Short Story Reviews(3) More Actions View Sets Close Related Sets Set of Stories: Target Collection Set of Stories: The Target Storybook Add Review Edit Review Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Save to my list Saved Yaz’s Case Files (Minisode) Case File Ten: The Ux Rating: 2.15 Story Skipped Webcast Reviews(1) More Actions View Sets Close Related Sets Set of Stories: Yaz’s Case Files Add Review Edit Review Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Save to my list Saved Quotes Add Quote Link to Quote Favourite DOCTOR: None of us know for sure what's out there. That's why we keep looking. Keep your faith. Travel hopefully. The universe'll surprise you... constantly. — The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos Show All Quotes (8) Open in new window Transcript + Script Needs checking [Planet surface] (An old quarry with water in the middle.) ANDINIO: (older female) Finally, this is where our journey stops.DELPH: (younger male) You're going to make this the place?ANDINIO: It's time. You're ready, Delph.DELPH: I don't think I am.ANDINIO: Seventeen years is enough. This is what I've trained you for.DELPH: You call it training, I call it building doubt. Every lesson that you've given me, I feel like I've understood less, not more.ANDINIO: Which is the point. The more we learn, the less we realise we know. This is our faith. This is our existence. The Creator would contend the world is not to be understood, only experienced, and built with our gift.DELPH: Praise the Creator's will.ANDINIO: Do this, Delph, and you shape our world in worship.DELPH: But if I fail, if I can't do it after all these years...ANDINIO: Trust in yourself. Now, come on. Show me our years of walking have not been wasted. Fulfil what we are, what only we can do. (Delph clasps his hands and closes his eyes. He opens them again and they are burning orange. Rocks from the quarry side fly into mid-air, crashing into each other as they agglomerate into a structure. Suddenly there is a flash of energy behind the pair. Andinio turns to see.) ANDINIO: What's happening? Stop, Delph, now. Show Full Transcript Open in new window View Script (PDF)