Let's be realistic.

Good start, but then it gets ruined

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

I must confess, I didn't like this episode at all the first time I saw it (though I loved the regeneration scene). I've now watched it for the fourth time, and this time I really sat down in front of a 55" flat screen with proper audio, and I actually think it's good. It's really good! Didn't have any expectations this time around and I really enjoyed how many of eleven's enemies returned, we closed up loosened ends and questions and sent eleven off with a bang. They also reused a lot of old musical themes which was super. It's funny, it makes Clara an important character, it has action, and it has feels. I only wish it was a bit longer, but other than that- Great episode!

To be honest I cried every time I had to, and this episode was a bit rubbish if I may say I mean like what up with 11 just staying in this town he doesn't even know and taking care of them it doesn't make sense is it because he doesn't want it to become the place where he got buried? Idk the point is that I just didn't like it and it didn't feel like a "Christmas Special" and I hate the fact that Smith is gone I think that he had so much potential to bringing new light to the Doctor. And also I just loved him and his flailing around screaming I just thought it was more fun and how there always was someone who fancied him, I would had loved another season with him and Coleman but it seems that it will never happen. I just hope that Capaldi will bring a fun and new side to the Doctor :( I will truly miss you Matt Smith.You will always be my doctor.

It was rubbish writing. Moffat broke the cardinal rule of writing with too much narrating. It wouldn't be Moffat without a big red button in the form of a big, shiny crack in the sky. Clara *remembers* seeing the Silents next time she sees them, which isn't how it works. Stolen plot line ("Handles" the Cyberman head...an asinine idea...is a direct lift of Tom Hanks and his volleyball "companion", Wilson in "Castaway"). The "Old man" makeup on Smith was awful. And Moffat had to come up with an even bigger regeneration than ever before. Took out a few thousand daleks at this go. ..And started the Time War, the whole reason he aged to prevent, yet no explanation or worries, just turns young again and piddles about the TARDIS. And now we have Tash (possibly meant to be River) the half Dalek mucking about somewhere in the TARDIS. He gave Smith as maudlin a farewell as Tennant had. (Possibly Moffat's farewell speech as show runner). Rubbish writing. And yet he had me crying several times. And waiting until August for the the next Doctor's real debut. The thing is, even Moffat's rubbish is gold for the rest of us. It's not easy to have us (as most of us, male and female, did) both laugh and weep...repeatedly...in under an hour. Being a Whovian is like having a brilliant but lazy child. It's all the more frustrating because you know what *might* have been. It seems inconceivable that the gem of "The Night of the Doctor" and this rubbish came from a mind between the same set of ears.MOFFFAATT!!!!

Technically, that was a spoiler, because that's what happened in this episode.It was an over-saturated mess in which everything happened and nothing mattered. People popped in and out without purpose, old props made cameos without consequence. Plot twists clearly marked RECYCLE get tossed in the trash bin after very, very brief use.Pacing was non-existent. Nothing the characters do or have happen to them (and believe me, a lot of things happen to a lot of characters) means anything at all. You can tell Moffat was trying to make it seem tragic, but he glosses over everything so haphazardly that nothing -- absolutely nothing -- sticks.It was like watching an hour-long movie trailer. I'd like to believe the episode was written by the marketing department.