That BBC thing is amazing lol.

This last season was superb, though.

One of the first things that drew me to Doctor Who is how out of stereotype the Doctor was and that played really well as a man. My fear is they won't be able to replicate it with a woman; or that using the same template for her won't have the same impact/organicness (?). And this also means that this role model has…

And she seemed to be genuinely thrilled at the challenge so I have hope.

There's a lot of middle ground, I personally am not a big fan but will wait and see. But there's frighteningly many people saying this is now "Nurse Who" and that Daleks will laugh are her and all kinds of really sexist stuff that sunk my hope for this fandom a little.

We need our grieving period.

And the "I was doing X when I missed the call and then giggled myself to death before I could tell anyone". I love those stories.

I wanted Capaldi to be that guy. And he could've. He could've…

Olivia Coleman as companion! I'd dig her more as a companion tbh.

Isn't it "the less the merrier" in this case?

I don't see her being the Doctor tbh, but I haven't seen her in that much. The new one that's surfaced lately (from Broadchurch) I could kind of see. I'd still prefer a British male, though.

This sort of makes me think about how Doctor Who ditched the "will you be able to guess?" part of the arc for this season mid-season and went to focus on a much more interesting character arc, and was all the better for it. Maybe this is what we're moving towards, and I'm all for it.

And what better way to go out than to save a bunch of people who would be dead otherwise, or worse. And maybe not for long. But just going out doing "the best he can" even if he dies trying, it's so very fitting after all Twelve's been through. The final act of his life is kindness.

It's also probably that he's already lived past what he was supposed to, and the only reason he was allowed to do that was so Time Lords could come back. Well, they're back. He's living on borrowed life. And like you said, he has no further unfinished business. I imagine Twelve having the mentality of someone more…

I think the fact that both Twelve (in Kill the Moon for example) and Rassilon said they don't know how many they gave him means we can't just assume they gave him another set. Otherwise Rassilon would've said "how many do you have left?" not "how many did we grant you?". The Master also alludes to not knowing but then…

Romana had probably learned more about how to control it from the academy, she aced it after all. Controlling it is probably very difficult, the Master in this episode doesn't seem to imply he can control it too well, either.

Missy also got Bill killed. If the Doctor had been there from the beginning he would've convinced the blue guy, you can start to see he was getting there. But the Doctor didn't get enough time and the lifts arrive so the blue guy just shoots before thinking.

I think the error here is considering that the Doctor would feel the same about regeneration all through his life, and there's no reason he should. From the very beginning Twelve has been shown to think he's lived past what he was supposed to, and there were many references throughout his run. Off the top of my head:
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I also predicted one, and the other, at various points. But never that both would happen, at that it would be executed this gorgeously. And I didn't think the Doctor wouldn't know in the end. So to me it felt like something I hadn't though of before, thus unpredictable.

I think he may just be tired, and he's already lived so long, so this may be the best time to end it. Look at what he's done this time. He fails to do anything to save his best friend from herself (he thinks) and Bill suffers and dies because he brought her there (he thinks). Maybe he thinks future incarnations won't…