What are you watching on the television?

Daleks, Missy being Missy, creepiness, oh god I missed the Dalek stories being creepy and not fanservice saturday morning villains like last time I saw Davros!  

I have to admit, I let my guard down with Missy and I should have totally known better, I mean, she did kill two men to brag about how evil she still was in the first ten minutes of the first episode.  

Speaking of Davros, haven't seen much Doctor Who before the new series, but I did see Genesis of the Daleks back when it came out on dvd and holy crap the nostalgia when that bit with the Doctor showing them mercy played!  

The biggest issue I have with this episode, besides the fact it was so tryhard at the scaring people gig, is the weirdness.

Now, don't get that remark wrong, weird can be good, amazing even.  Hell Doctor Who as a series is basically distilled weird in a 45 minute dose, and it normally excels at it.

But there's the thing, there is good weird, and then there is stupid weird.  Sleep no More was the latter.  Gatiss can do the former, but when he does the latter, which seems to be the norm, hooboy does he do the latter.

Very cheap scare attempts that fell flat for me throughout, a nonsense end "twist" that either means the solar system is dead or it was all irrelevant to begin with, and one of the stupidest most poorly explained monsters I've ever seen, although somehow I suspect even with proper origin explanation nothing can salvage what amounts to sentient eye boogers.  

Absolutely smashing stuff.  Heaven Sent started off the duo amazingly, there was so much amazing in the episode.  How it kept you constantly wondering what was going on, kept managing to throw the Doctor and the viewer a semblance of hope before yanking it away, the further he got the more hopeless it seemed.  Then the reveal, horrific yet hopeful at the same time, followed by the reveal Gallifrey was responsible.  I do not exaggerate when I say I was actually on the edge of my seat during this episode.

Hell Bent, I'm sure some were probably disappointed at the more character driven nature of this one rather than the sort of epic explosive event the finales usually entail, but I absolutely loved the character drama this one brought.  The Doctor completely changed after losing his companion and being essentially broken repeatedly for billions of years, the title of both episodes were so perfectly apt, especially Hell Bent.  

Then the plot twists started, I can't be the only one who fought they'd pegged what was going to happen with Clara midway but was too absorbed by what was going on to think "hang on, this is a Moffat story so the one thing you can count on is that if you think you've figured out the rest of the story odds are you're completely wrong".  Like the best plot twists it jumped me by surprise but was so obvious in hindsight.  

The departure was suitably heartbreaking and hopeful, I wasn't a huge fan of Clara back in series 7 but she's really grown on my over the Capaldi era.  Capaldi himself was utterly compelling during the episodes (and in general), needless to say I can't wait to see more of his Doctor!  I'm so close to putting him as my favourite Doctor after series 9!

His prison fight was the best scene in the show, brutal.

Great to see Fisk back and sets up a lot for S3.