I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Capaldi was a 10. He was brilliant, as always, as the Doctor. Everything else - crap.The portrayal of the First Doctor had nothing but the look. It was an empty shell as the actor captured few of Hartnell's mannerisms, and the character served no purpose other than to highlight the reimagined morality of Doctor Who.In this, Doctor 1 is a sexist fool. They prove it by having him treat Horse Faced Biww like he treated his granddaughter. Not that it's sexist to treat a granddaughter like a child. The writers made sure we knew Doc 1 was a cad by having Capaldi's doc express horror at Doc 1's attitude towards Biww.Anyone who saw any of the Doc 1 episodes know the reimagining of him as a sexist fool who hasn't yet developed a passion for helping people is ridiculous. Doc 1 often insisted on helping people when others wanted to get back in the TARDIS to leave. But in SJW reimaginings, everything from the past is wrong and bad.Speaking of Biww, this episode included an obligatory "Biiww declares she's gay" scene. It also had lots of the actresses horrid acting - she uses the same horrified face to show fear, love, sadness, any emotion.The overall message is everything is relative, so if we'd just stop fightiong the world would be like a fairy tale. That ignores that fairy tales are most often good vs evil rather than moral relativity/ There is evil in the real world, and Doctor Who used to have a message of fighting that evil. If the cause is good, fighting doesn't corrupt the fighter.But now the "War Doctor" is only about peace.Tell that to the people liberated from concentration camps and to people saved from Hitler's tyranny. It was people with guns, fighting and doing violence for good,. who made WW2 end up like a fairy tale - evil vanquished, good people saved.But in reiimagined Who where gender is backwards, so the Doctor has to be a woman; it's so great that Biww is gay that she has to declare it every episode; and there are generally no protagonists the only good is in recognizing that everyone is the same - there is no evil, it's all relative.Evil works hard to make people think that. Doctor Who has gone from being a fairy tale full of good overcoming evil to a nightmare of SJW, leftist drivel.One more thing - the companion who saved every Doctor in every story, who's more important than the Doctor, Clara is back in a short cameo at the end. She utters some nonsense about being insulted that the Doctor forgot her, even though it was her who made him forget.TL/DRDoctor Who has been reimagined into leftist, unwatchable garbage.

As many people know by now this episode was already supposed to be written by the next producer of Dr Who. But he declined and so Moffat created a last minute hack job. Basically everything that's wrong about this episode is what was wrong with Doctor who ever since Moffat took over. I'll start with the things I like. David Bradley was great as the 1st Doctor. His grumpiness was equally great with that of John Hurt in The Day of the Doctor. David literally pointed out flaws in the newer seasons that made it hard to enjoy the show. Like when he pointed out how the sonic screw driver is silly and over used. And the episode might have been great if it was a solo David + Peter movie... but sadly that wasn't enough a story for Moffat. Which brings us to the bad things: everything else. The episode starts out with a great mystery, which gets a really underwhelming resolution. Because that's how all of Moffats stories went: Promising that huge things will happen, but wont deliver on that front. The mystery is (spoiler) Humanity will resurrect every human being in history ever as a glass robot, so that... yeah why that's not explained. Because it makes no sense for relatives who miss the person as they can't intervene in the timeline and actually show the relatives the robots. The real reason why they do it is that Moffat hates bad endings. He killed Clara only to make her an immortal (literally) heartless girl that flies through space with another immortal woman. Now Bill is also immortal and dreads at the horizon to jump out of the deus ex machina box in any future episodes.I dearly hope Chris Chibnall and Jodie Whittaker can salvage what is left of Doctor who after Moffat is done with it.

The Doctor should have regenerated at the end of "The Doctor Falls" and that should have been the end of it. While reintroducing the first incarnation of the Doctor was cute, it was nothing more than a way for David Bradley to show that he's got some serious acting chops. The banter between the first Doctor and Capaldi's Doctor had its moments, but then began to wane. And the episode grew stale rather quickly.I loved Bill in the last season. However, she as a collection of memories in this special didn't play well. It felt like she spent every scene trying to convince the Doctor of who she was. Had she come back as a "pilot," which she had been turned into at the end of "The Doctor Falls," it would have made sense and given her and the Doctor closure. The same thing with he predecessor making a cameo. Wrong, wrong, wrong, cheap, and added no value. It was horribly reminiscent of Amy Pond showing up to rattle of her Raggedy Man statement to Matt Smith's incarnation of the Doctor before he regenerated. All of the scenes were pieced together simply for the sake of a Christmas special.The regenerations got to be epic with Eccleston. Many express emotions about Capaldi switching out to Whittaker. I remember when Tom Baker's Doctor regenerated. No special effects. No fanfare. No one man show theatrical dialogue. Plus, Baker's death was acted out as being real from having fallen from a great height, not him at the end of a season as the Doctor. And Baker felt missed, for me, because he was such an outstanding Doctor that you didn't want him to go. Whittaker has some shoes to fill. After so many versions of the Doctor, she has to present a fresh incarnation that doesn't chew lines, give overwrought monologues, and isn't the love interest of someone who is thousands of years her senior. The transition from Capaldi to Whittaker would have sufficed better at the end of "The Doctor Falls."

The 12th Doctor refuses to change and bumps into the original 1963 Doctor Who.One of the very best Doctor Who shows ever! Wonderful acting from everybody (I felt like the original Doctor actor was still alive in 2017), at times funny, great sets, and just a good solid hour of science fiction.The timing of the screening (December 2017) could not have been better as this made up for the rather average Star Wars film (The Last Jedi) which also appeared in December 2017. Twice Upon A Time restored my faith in 2017 sci-fi TV/film making.The only negative to the whole hour is Capaldi's very long drawn out goodbye speech right at the end before he changes. He mentions children and everything else under the sun and at one point I was yelling out: "okay, right, just bloody change will you!"But all things considered, a must for all 1960s Doctor Who fans and for many other people as well.