The doctor falls

Hi all,

Some random thoughts:

1)I think the issue with this one was that there was a lot to finish in an hour and maybe they should have done 10 episodes and done a two hour tv movie , so there was a new reboot of Dr Who, fully regenerated by 25th December.

2) If this was a part two of three then maybe it wasn't so bad, but it looks like not. I wish they'd have actually solved the actual issue i.e. saving the children and people on that level of the space ship . The master actually said that even successfully moving them to the next level wasn't going to work because the cyber men would get through eventually. The doctor agreed. But with the ending, why couldn't Bill's girlfriend save them ? Either by TARDIS or by the fact she's this all advanced space ship herself? As it is nardol and co have been left to die .

3)The master and missy had some classic lines , but were under utilised and were just sideshows, which was disappointing given the arc about the vault. In fact why couldn't they have all made a break for the master's TARDIS? I thought the sexual flirting between what in plot terms was the same person , was highly weird and unnecessary.

4) The cybermen were not really the creepy threat of last week. All they did was stomp around and get blown up. They just didn't feel like a menace and I couldn't get into the defence of the farm thing which they'd done before anyway with Matt Smith. Incidentally why didn't the cybermen simply burrow directly into the farm building ?

5) If cyber Bill cut through to the next why was it underground? I thought that was where the cybermen were? Surely they'd would have to try to get to the sky.??

6). I was waiting for the girl to be revealed (somehow) as a young Bill or her daughter.

7). The thing with Bill's girlfriend just popping up was pure Deus ex machina . And if that was so , why didn't they save the others? In fact didn't they do the same thing with Clara last year?

8) . If Bill wanted to die because of being a cyberman , why didn't she sacrifice herself instead if the doctor (and if needs be get saved anyways by her girlfriend).

9). How did "the pilot" pilot the TARDIS? Will this ever be resolved properly?

10). I wonder what they'll change about the first doctor now he's in effect going to be the "companion" next time.