Firstly, this episode looked SO good. The right-wing vaguely-50s fantasy of it all was really well done, plus the skeletal monsters and bone palace were very fun. I really enjoyed the Rani - I see some people complaining about her characterisation but honestly I have no problems with it and in fact am having a blast watching the dynamic made by Archie Panjabi and Anita Dobson

Lots of this episode was done really well: the aforementioned right-wing fantasy slowly falling apart because of its instability. But this then also brings the question of why, in this world where gay people don't exist, disabled people are pushed to the sidelines, and a woman's role is in the house, are we post-racial? And the answer is of course that the Doctor and Belinda are our two main characters, and need to be trapped in the wish world for the plot to actually happen- which only then leads to the question of "Why did you write a story that doesn't seem to fit your characters?" I don't know. It's an odd one

A slow-moving suspenseful story that drops the ball entirely in the final quarter and becomes plain boring. The serial is also let down by its very existence - a story rooted in Oh No What About The Scary Ancient Egyptians featuring characters such as Evil Brown Man is not one that holds up in the present day

Planet of Evil is fine. It does very little astoundingly bad and very little amazingly good. I loved the jungle set, and some parts were pretty good, but mostly the serial Happened and I had an alright time watching it

Solid UNIT story all things considered! I loved how squelchy the Zygon ship was, I truly have a fondness for spaceships that are full on just Fleshy. Apparently though nobody can write a Zygon story without it being weird politically - oh so there's a ship full of what are explicitly stated to be refugees and they can look just like you (bad thing! can't see them coming!) and they want to turn this place into a replica of their home? Is that the message we're going for here?

WELL .

So first of all, Rani return. I've been in these trenches for 5 years and others have been here far longer, I'd like to congratulate everyone on the one time we've been right about a character being the Rani since 2005.

Beyond that... Jesus Christ. The Interstellar Song Contest is an entertainingly-written episode, with some pretty strong moments.

It also has some godawful politics. I'm not trying to say Doctor Who is never political (objectively untrue statement), nor is it a terrible surprise that the message lands somewhere between "horrifically tone-deaf" and "outright bad" (neither are without precedent). Still, for a story that feels like is was written by someone who understands Israel's links to Eurovision - like with the Poppy Honey/Moroccan Oil parallels - I truly cannot fathom how they ended up at "the Doctor can beat a guy up with no real consequences and have the people who's home was razed to the ground tried singing about it?"

At one point they talk about riling a Cyberman up and it struck me as such a fundamental misinterpretation of their whole point (removed all emotions from themselves) that it dropped my opinion down from "middling" to "just not good"

The scene at the end, when Rose steps onto Earth having just seen the wreckage of its destruction, surrounded by people just living their lives and being human as the Doctor shares a past so huge and lonely that he himself can hardly put it into words, is to me one of the defining scenes of the modern era of Doctor Who

Popular opinion has this as a good serial and fair play, they're right. It's well-paced, the characters are used in interesting ways, there are some really good cliff-hangers, and the whole story is compelling.

It's weakened by two main things. One is the fact that Davros comes back later in the show, but that's not their fault. The second is very much their fault, and it was the choice to make Davros so identifiably evil and other by making him visibly disabled

Kind of book that makes you think "I really need to read more about the Spanish Civil War". The idea was strong (and so was most of the execution!) and the alien threat was really well written, but it didn't all quite manage to come together.

I loved this story, it is EXACTLY my type of metafictional fun. The Story & the Engine is about how humans tell stories to be people, to share culture, to survive (to, in the words of Terry Pratchett, be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape). It's an episode steeped in Black culture and history - Inua Ellams is Nigerian and god it's so refreshing to have new voices on this show.

It also, and I cannot stress this enough, brought back the Fugitive Doctor for a cameo to state that she had a brief lesbian situationship with Abena, Anansi's daughter

This may well be the best Doctor Who has ever done it