Uhm..
I'll be honest, I think the only real reason this episode exists is because its Remembrance weekend.
Which is fine in one sense. It worked for the Family of Blood two-parter (and in my personal opinion, done much better), and the themes of sacrifice, loss and bravery in the face of combat have all been covered to great emotional effect before.
Except.. And I know that if anyone reads this, they'll hate my guts but- I don't like Clara.
Well to expand on that, I don't feel emotionally connected to Clara. And through her Danny. I also had some issues with the character of Missy/The Master. Not because somewhere between John Simm's last appearance and now, there's been a sex change, but because the character wasn't dangerous-mad, not until the last half an hour or so. Though when Michelle Gomez (Missy) does let loose, she does give Missy a certain nutty flair. But the pay off wasn't a surprise I don't think for most fans. They either thought she was The Rani (like me) or indeed, The Master.
Also Ingrid Oliver (who pleasantly surprised a lot of people with her role as Osgood in Day of the Doctor) was quickly dispatched in this episode (i.e. deaded), meaning that her chances of joining in in any future Who adventures becomes extremely unlikely- though does anyone truly die in science fiction?
RIP OSGOOD. WE BARELY KNEW THEE.
Speaking of dead, Danny was brought back as a Cyberman. But a Cyberman that would protect Clara blah blah blah. Skyline covered this angle already (probably others, but I can't see everything).
I still don't get why Missy wants to use dead people, corpses that barely have any biological elements as to be useful, to create an army for the Doctor for his birthday? She did it all for him, yet she must have known that he wouldn't accept it. Even if Danny hadn't ordered all the Cybermen (on the Doctor's behalf) to destroy themselves, he would have just ordered them all to jump into the sun.
Again I think this episode was just put out in honour of the weekend, because the plot doesn't have a payoff that I can see.
And it isn't even really over! It's more-or-less stated the Nick Frost's starring role as Santa in the Christmas episode will wrap up (hehe) the Doctor and Clara and possibly even Danny's story. (And boy does the teaser that followed the ep look like Doctor Who meets Alien).
So I can't even make any definitive statement about tonight's episode, because it might not have ended yet!
Still it was very nice to see UNIT in action again, though t would have been nice to see their SHIELD-esque helicarrier in action again.. Maybe for Christmas Constable Butterman?
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