S10E08 The Lie of the Land SPOILERS ON AIRING

So glad Missy is in next week's. The more Missy the better.

Expect some pretty terrible overnight numbers for this epsiode now that ITV have moved the final of BGT from Sunday to Saturday to avoid clashing with the Machester Tribute Concert. Hopefully there'll be some big Timeshift numbers to balance it out.

not in my book!

what a dreadful ending!

I was with this ep till they went to the "brainwave transmitter", but why all the bill's mum guff, just blow the bloody thing up.

bill and nardole were great, then the doctor shows up with is big eyes and scary teeth acting again!

and the regen stuff was so cringey. it's not right to wish Doctor Who, didn't have the doctor in it.

and what they doing to missy, now she/he is not my favourite thing in new who but those scenes were just awful......crying for heavens sake.

after the first 4 eps of this series being so good, these three were back to the rubbish we have had to endure last year!

it almost made me wish I had watched BGT Final instead.

up side next week looks exciting

Unsatisfying.

We still know precisely nothing about the Monks, and after building them up for 2 whole episodes they did nothing of note.

Why didn't the transmitter kill Bill? How does her remembering her mum stop it from frying her brain? Also Bill's memory of mum is itself fake, so how does a fake memory manage to release the world from all the Monks' ones?

The cop-out with the whole 'fake out' betrayal. Seriously? That was the boldest thing all series and then they threw it away? How did the Doctor even fake the regeneration? Why would he bother faking a regeneration when Bill is completely unaware of regeneration?

The episode wasn't all bad, but these things just made it really unsatisfying for me. That said I enjoyed the Missy scenes, and that final scene looks to be hinting at interesting stuff. Plus the trailer for next week looks pretty good.

For the most part this was a good episode, but the ending felt rushed and was frankly unsatisfying as it was a standard, predictable resolution that made it seem as though there are no consequences or remembered fallout to Bill's rash actions.

I will say that I thought Bill reading the Doctor the riot act early in the episode was by far the best the character has looked all series.

Well, that was a damp squib. Not quite Kill the Moon or Warriors of the Deep, but damn close. It'll be really sad if this is Whithouse's last script for the programme, as I know he can do a lot better.

Now for the WHOCAP review: thirdactfilm.com/whocap-review-the-lie-the-land-s10-ep8/

Not only was the ending bad, most of the rest of the episode was too! I thought this episode was terrible, just plain dull and predictable. 

Based on this episode that story arc certainly wasn't worth three episodes. The whole thing could have been fitted in to two episodes and nothing interesting would have been lost. 

The best (and only) good thing about this episode was Pearl Mackie. She is brilliant, Bill is brilliant. The rest, meh! The Monks were all powerful when they restored the Doctor's eyes, now they're fallible and rubbish?

I would have preferred it if it had still been a simulation - that I could accept.

Such a shame after a great start to the season.

Cheers

Tony

Awful, awful, awful. Basically a full quarter of the series wasted on this pointless storyline. Thankfully just 5 more episodes and Moffat's finally gone.