This episode is so difficult for me.

So. First off. The majority of this episode is genuinely fantastic and very good. Andy is perpetually great, and we see that while they are certainly doing better, Gwen and Rhys's issues haven't just magically disappeared after the wedding.

The entire plot of the episode revolving around a genuinely good mystery with genuinely emotional stakes... And with a genuinely chilling answer to the mystery. By all means, this should be one of the best episodes in the season.

But god. The conclusion ruins it all for me.

Gwen goes home, accepting that Jack and the mother are right and she shouldn't have told her in the first place...?

I have immense empathy for the mother. Because for all intents and purposes, I AM her, in reverse. I myself, take care of my mother, who is suffering from Alzheimer's. It's painful, it's messy. But I love her.

The idea that the families are kept from knowing about their loved ones being alive, and the reason presented at the end, that it would be too difficult for the loved ones, is meant to be seen as reasonable... is unacceptable to me. I come away from this episode seeing Torchwood as the villains. Well-meaning, but villains nonetheless.

However much empathy I have for the mother, I have even more for her son and all the other victims. They aren't going to be allowed to see their loved ones, because Torchwood has decided their loved ones would be better off? That is not, and should not, be their decision. Not every family member is going to be like his mother.

I'm all for bleak storylines and sad endings. I know Torchwood loves those. I don't expect them to turn this ending into a hopeful and happy one. But to tell the audience that Gwen was wrong and Jack is right? I despise everything about it.

Gwen was right to begin with. The one case not going well doesn't change that. And the fact that the episode has her change her mind and accept Jack's way of doing it, and paints it as a necessary evil, is horrible to me.

If it were up to Torchwood, I would never see my mother again. For all the strife and pain that would avoid, I would never choose it in a million years. So yeah. Maybe my vendetta against this episode is personal. But it genuinely makes me sick.

4.5/5. It was excellent. Genuinely the best episode so far of RTD2.

But it squandered being one of my top episodes of all time, as I have the same grievances as many others seem to. The lack of meaning. Midnight, Blink, both episodes I would compare in vibe, that have similar intense, frightening mysteries that are explored as the episode continues. This episode fails where those ones succeed however, in making it have a meaning.

I have no problem with an episode that gets undone, plenty of timey-wimey reasons for that to happen. But the conclusion left me hollow. I don't need to know every detail of how and why it happened. That's what makes Midnight so great. But there's almost not a single detail that is explained, and, as I doubt the theories of us learning more about this episode later, it likely never will be.

I'm left wondering what happened and what the purpose of it all was, and ultimately, am left frustrated by that. Midnight succeeded where it failed, in that regard.

What I know of this episode can be summed up as such: Ruby is followed around by a woman for her entire life. At her death she suddenly snaps back to the past and becomes the woman.

No reasoning for a single thing in the episode. In Midnight, the question we're left with by the end is "What was the creature?". In 73 Yards, we are left with... everything. Why did the Doctor vanish? Why is she stuck 73 yards away (including with film)? Why does she have a perception filter? Why is everyone so terrified and disgusted by what she says? Why did the time loop occur? Why was it different the 2nd time around? I could go on.

I didn't expect or even want, EVERY question answered. But, all my investment in the episode was banking on learning at least the tiniest bit. I was not given the tiniest shred.

However, this is only my feeling after the episode is over. The experience of watching it is still extremely high on my Doctor Who tier list. But not even close to as high as it could be, if not for making me feel I'm lacking a single bit of awareness of any event that occured.

If I'm wrong and we do get SOME answers later, I will certainly be impressed, and take this back. As it is though, I genuinely loved the episode- but mourn the fact that it could have been at the very peak.

I'm one of the few on this site who can actually mark this as having been played! I spent a good amount of time on it in my childhood, during the brief time it was available.

Can barely remember anything about the actual gameplay. But boy, it was the wild west of the internet... Nearly unmoderated social interaction in a children's game, aha. I even had a 'Worlds in Time exclusive girlfriend', if memory serves. Could've gone very badly! But we just played the game together.

It does make me nostalgic. I remember enjoying it a lot. It's a shame that things like these are totally lost from time. Hopefully online games like these are better preserved in the future. It's an important piece of history that should continue to be available.

Truly a masterpiece of cinema... The twists and turns in this stunned me and shook me to my core... All other Doctor Who media fails to compete. Whoever wrote this should be the next showrunner.

In all seriousness, this comic relief sketch was entirely devoid of comedy. Worse than all the other ones, but does nothing egregious to put it beneath a 2.5. It would have to actively do things I dislike to make that happen. As it is, it is simply inoffensive, and fails to be funny. Hopefully they remember the comedy next time!