Decent episode, not a fan of "haunted" house stories, but glad it had a scifi explanation to it.

I have to admit, I don't really get the love for this one. It's a really solid episode, delightfully creepy with great atmosphere and set design, but that's pretty much where my praise for it ends.

The Lone Cyberman was hyped up quite a bit, but I don't really get his deal. If I remember later episodes correctly, he isn't even properly utilised in them. A Cyberman without an emotional inhibitor is an interesting idea, but I don't think it's done well here.

I feel like, for being the most famous person in the episode, Mary Shelley was sidelined quite a bit. Everyone knows Frankenstein, but I don't think I've ever heard of any of Mr. Shelley's writing. I think the guardian thing would have worked better if it was Mary who was holding the Cyberium, instead, but for all I know they were drawing from real life for the way it effected him.

It was also just a bit slow. A lot of it was building up the tension, sure, but it was a bit too much for my taste.

I do love Thirteen in this episode. She has a few fantastically odd moments, as well as some great speeches, but that's not really unusual.

A celebrity adorer of thirteenth, finally!

There is no other word for that episode than utterly fantastic. I loved the spooky haunted house vibe, the stuff with the constantly changing house and Ashad The Lone Cyberman. Its design is impeccable, and the Cyberman  having no emotional inhibitor is  unique.

Jodie Whittaker's speech about sometimes not always being able to win and not wanting to lose someone else to the Cyber-conversion is going to go down in Who history as one of the all-time greats. Yet another instant classic after three already in one series.

It's stylish enough, and even a little substantive for the standards of Chibnall. In spite of others liking it I don't really get much out of this episode. It's fine. Unusually coherent for a 13th Doctor episode, but still kind of pointless. Ashad has some of the biggest build-up of any Doctor Who villain ever and it really feels like it doesn't amount to anything. He's just going to get tossed away in a couple of episodes. Who cares?

It reminds me a lot of some of the stuff we've heard about what production was like during this era. Rushed, to the point that scripts were delaying filming - and the writing shows for it in stuff like this. I bet people could watch this and be disengaged enough and unable to follow things to the extent they would have no idea Frankenstein's writer was involved in the story at all!