We're heading straight into major spoiler territory here because this episode was focused around one extremely flawed evil plan and here it is:
The Master wants to become The Doctor so he can ruin her reputation and make her name a byword for evil. To accomplish this he uses a forced regeneration machine to force her to regenerate into him, effectively stealing her body and turning her from Jodie Whittaker into Sasha Dhawan.
A plan which could also have been achieved by saying "Hello, I'm The Doctor" and then shooting some people.
On one level it's nice that the hilariously bad Chibnall era has ended on such a stupid story. If he'd pulled some good writing out of the bag we might have missed him.
But onto the real headline, that spicy regeneration at the end of the episode. Jodie Whittaker regenerating into none other than...David Tennant!
Thousands of fans cheered at their screens in unison as the new Russell T Davies era exploded onto the scene, ushering in what we can only hope will be a new revival, much like what Davies first accomplished in 2005. Though now he arguably faces an even greater challenge.
Series 1 tasked Davies with resurrecting a series long on hiatus, a daunting task but one he rose to mightily.
Now he faces the challenge of rescuing the show from the festering quagmire of almost half a decade of lacklustre or downright awful stories, can he rise to this challenge? I'm optimistic but only time will tell.
The Master wants to become The Doctor so he can ruin her reputation and make her name a byword for evil. To accomplish this he uses a forced regeneration machine to force her to regenerate into him, effectively stealing her body and turning her from Jodie Whittaker into Sasha Dhawan.
A plan which could also have been achieved by saying "Hello, I'm The Doctor" and then shooting some people.
On one level it's nice that the hilariously bad Chibnall era has ended on such a stupid story. If he'd pulled some good writing out of the bag we might have missed him.
But onto the real headline, that spicy regeneration at the end of the episode. Jodie Whittaker regenerating into none other than...David Tennant!
Thousands of fans cheered at their screens in unison as the new Russell T Davies era exploded onto the scene, ushering in what we can only hope will be a new revival, much like what Davies first accomplished in 2005. Though now he arguably faces an even greater challenge.
Series 1 tasked Davies with resurrecting a series long on hiatus, a daunting task but one he rose to mightily.
Now he faces the challenge of rescuing the show from the festering quagmire of almost half a decade of lacklustre or downright awful stories, can he rise to this challenge? I'm optimistic but only time will tell.