Solid episode, but props for the review. As a creative writing student myself, I've experienced a lot of the doubts you touched on here.

Some funny moments, but pretty lacklustre after last week's epic. I'm wondering whether the lack of arm mentions means this was aired out of order, or whether they just didn't want to get into it.

Another vote for regular coverage here.

Yeah, I had a feeling that was the answer.

Was looking forward to this episode, but thought it was ultimately pretty lackluster.

I'm glad someone said this. I was kind of disappointed when he was rescued at the beginning of the second episode.

I don't usually take notice of those kinds of things (I only know who Somvilay is from reading the comments on past reviews), but by the end of this episode I was definitely thinking, 'This must have been a Somvilay episode'. Good to know I was right.

Wasn't a huge fan of this one. Cinnamon Bun's development was nice, but a lot of the humour was odd rather than funny.

For what it's worth, I agree with basically everything said here, so you're not alone.

But it's all relative isn't it? It's a speeding train, so she would maintain some of the train's forward momentum even after jumping off, and the parachute would ensure that she would cover some decent ground before touching down (and thus stopping). So, May jumps —> remaining train carriages pass her position —>…

So PB created some robots to enforce order in her city, realised that they were both obsolete and extremely violent, and subsequently had them scrapped. That makes her evil?

Well, I was really just answering his third question (why they shouldn't tell Slade). And only Oliver thought he was responsible; Sara blamed Ivo (and it is of course Ivo's fault).

Because Slade is mentally unstable.

He was regenerating into Eccleston. Not sure where you got the idea that the War Doctor was between 4 and 5; he's between 8 and 9.

Everyone seems to have jumped onto the 'PB is evil' bandwagon, but I really don't see it. She's just the ultimate pragmatist. Sure her actions in this episode seem a little ethically squishy, but that's because we don't live in a world where we can effortlessly clone people. She made the best choice in a bad situation.

Yeah, that line does seem to point to the timeline being altered. I just wish that during the last scene the three Doctors had together, Smith had mentioned that Hurt and Tennant needed to have their minds wiped in order to preserve the equilbrium and prevent a paradox, or somesuch, rather than the 'timestreams out of…

So you think the War Doctor did use the Moment (which already had a conscience at that stage), and then his regenerations carried along for four guilt-ravaged centuries, before the Moment suddenly decided that it was no longer okay with having been used to commit double genocide and decided to change things? I'm not…

Ah, good. I'm still not quite won over by the fact that the memory loss was brought on by an impending paradox, but I feel a bit better now.

Wait, so (SPOILERS, I GUESS) is the implication that Gallifrey was always saved, and the Doctor simply didn't know it until now, due to the memory wiping? Much like the events surrounding the Impossible Astronaut, where the resolution wasn't that the fixed point was averted, just that it wasn't what it seemed in the…

It did remind me a lot of that, but the angels couldn't defend against being seen. You'd think the Daleks would be able to shield against, or evade their own weapons fire. Especially when you consider that their weapons fire had to cross through a space the size of a planet before reaching the Daleks on the other…