I mostly agree. Let's just destroy all Who continuity and throw it out the window. How old is he now? 4.5 billion years plus? Even lines like, "How many reincarnations did we give you?" contradicts the usual fixed number for all Time Lords. I just didn't like this series at all. Oh, and let's bring another name from the past back for the Christmas special...wonder how bad they can screw that one up...

I know it's my own fault for clicking on this thread while I'm still working my way through this season, but... Spoiler tags, guys?

Anyway, Capaldi's effing awesome. I think he should do at least one more season, before throwing it in.

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Only just caught back up with this, but you're generally right. The thing you're missing I think is not that he chose bad directions with the plot, it's that he is incapable of finishing things. It's a bit like Game Of Thrones will eventually be revealed to be, lots of plot openings, lots of threads, lots of possibilities, no conclusive ending.

It's a shame, he could end his shorter stuff ok, but ending that, after all he set up, not a chance. He didn't even try, just carried on writing new avenues, giving new "outs" to people. He didn't even dare try to wrap anything up, and tried to put a number of episodes in one script.

I'd class it as in the same quality as a Michael Bay ending - "I send this message to all viewers, this is the ending! There will be a sequel!"

Really wanted a good Timelord face off, with Rassilon properly shown as a character, with the doctor torn between his world and possible destruction with it from the hybrid (boy did that go stale, "it's you, or me, or perhaps both of us, or maybe these people, or... well lets just say I can't be arsed to finish this plot"). They could have done a fantastic episode without ever leaving that barn.

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I feel your pain.

That's very well put. I was actually enjoying the hell out of the first 15-20 minutes of it, before we got to saving Clara. Capaldi was awesome, still on a roll from last week, his silent confrontation with the Timelords was tense and felt right, better than an outburst of anger would, while his talk with Clara in the diner (untill the end I thought it was one of the "other" Claras, that exist through time after the whole "jumping itno Doctor's timeline"), as he tells her the story and plays the guitar sadly, felt like a clever way to bookend her story. I was thinking that the Doctor found Gallifrey, cleaned up the mess after the Time War, somehowe dealt with the Hybrid which will porbably turn out to be Me, and now tells the story to one of those other Claras from the past, because he misses the real one, and this is how a Clara saves the Doctor one last time- by giving him closure.

And then everything fell apart, like I already described. I really don't like it, when I feel like I could do a better job than the people who actually write this stuff for a living. It's rather frustrating.