This episode was enjoyable, but my expectations were way too high going into it with it being called one of the best episodes since 2005. Bill's early scenes in the hospital were creepy and Missy was fun as always, but otherwise this felt like build-up for next week.
And both the reveals at the end (the Master and…

Was the thing that changed "The Eaters of Light by Rona Munro" appearing on the screen? Also, this isn't outsourcing due to a lack of ideas. Most episodes of Doctor Who aren't written the show runner. Lastly, they already explained why Capaldi has that Roman's face.

What? The "Look! More Daleks miraculously survived by falling through time! And repeatedly saying something that turns out to be important in the finale counts as foreshadowing!" bore-fest series were excellent? I'll admit Moffat's had some missteps but I'll take 5-10 any day over 1-4.

What about Nardole? He's not even human.
I do agree though. I don't think the BBC plans to let Nardole stick around long (which sucks because I think he's been great) and I think the Doctor needs a companion who is not human or not modern.

There was that one Time Lord who spent a few hundred years telling them they were his favorite and saving them. Then, they just made him president of the world.

The video the sonic shades were shown to be taking didn't show the numbers. And since when does the sonic have a camera on it?

I loved the episode. Definitely slower than last week's installment (admittedly too slow in some of the middle bits) but the last third of the episode I was on the edge of my seat holding my breath.

Holy f*ck!

So…is Mon El gone for good? And (even worse) is Cat Grant back for good? And this episode nerfed the hell outta Supes. Season 3 is not looking promising to me.

You're twaddle. You insult the review but don't provide any reasoning for why the review is bad other than you didn't like the episode.

I'm pretty convinced it's Missy, but Moffat has straight up lied in interviews before to hide a twist.

It wasn't the real TARDIS and (more importantly) Moffat thought it was funny for the pope to come out of Bill's bedroom ranting in Italian.

I thought it was confirmed. Maybe it isn't.

It wasn't a cop out ending, it was the solution to a mystery. The simulation was the entire premise of the episode (besides the Missy flashbacks). I don't see how it was insulting.

I'm currently rewatching the episode and Nardole has me in hysterics.
Nardole: You know the Vatican?
Bill: Yeah.
Nardole: The one in Italy?
Bill: Yeah.
Nardole: In Rome?
Bill: Yeah.
Nardole: Where the Pope lives?

I didn't get onboard with Bill until Oxygen, now she has cemented a place in my heart next to Clara, Amy, Rory, and all the others. It sucks she's leaving so soon. Hopefully the next companion will finally be non-human or non-modern.

I can imagine other Doctors doing just as well with the same material, just differently. Matt Smith, for example, would be able to portray the same emotion in the scene where fake Bill dies, but he would not have taken the subtle approach Capaldi did.

Besides Obama, politicians in Nu Who seem to be completely different than our world, so the simulation probably got all that right.

I was really afraid Moffat was going to say this episode and Oxygen were inside the simulation, easily getting around that whole blindness problem. Thankfully, that didn't happen. Doctor Who with consequences. Yay!

I've have spent many, many hours killing NPCs in GTA. This episode made me feel a bit guilty.