That’s honestly one of the parts I can understand. The Doctor doing that much to save one child’s life… against everything else, that might be the most Doctor thing in the episode.
Poppy’s identity specifically (and what had to happen to Belinda to make it stick), that sucked, but the main idea still could’ve worked.
It might have worked better for me if she had actually been Captain Poppy.
I still think Susan will be a S3 arc. More impactful if Ncuti had stayed but it would have rounded off his time as Doccy Who - mentions her in S1, sees her in S2, finds her in S3.
There are definitely questions. Besides the party scene, one of the publicity shots of Susan had her in a different outfit then we saw on screen. And, er, the actor playing Belinda’s dad was announced, but he wasn’t in the episode…
This is why I’m holding back on saying this episode is outright terrible: Everything wrong with it screams “Panicked and hasty rewrites”. I wasn’t even joking about the Writer’s Tale 2 thing; there has gotta be a story behind all of this.
Well, I do generally think that panicked and hasty rewrites and a terrible episode go hand in hand…
I hate what they did with Belinda, but like if they had actually built her up as a mother wanting to go back home then we would’ve probably been more invested in Poppy? Because the Doctor sacrificing himself to change Belinda’s life so Poppy existed just really felt awkward and fell tone deaf for me.
That’s just how CAF dresses when going to Tescos
Thats how Carole Ann Ford usually dresses 
He is in a play about Shakespeare & Marlowe starting in August.
On one hand, YouTube comment section; take with grain of salt, as always.
On the other hand, it certainly matches with how the episode turned out. RTD himself said that he didn’t know if Season 3 would be happening even before Season 2 started.
If she’s not I’m legit taking a break from the show and becoming EU only for a few years
Eleventh is happy and meeting Rose again, Tenth is miserable and jealous…
GOD, do I wish the last episode felt this good.
Similiar scenario kinda happened in the Day of the Doctor , especially the novelisation , Eleven was like " 
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Well, I mean, you can go EU only for a few years right now and still watch season 3 when it airs…
Wait, I just realised something:
So, we have an unfairly maligned Doctor being the poster child for all of the show’s current woes, a production lead stuck in a position he likely should’ve left a while ago, and the BBC failing to support the show adequately and putting a big question mark on whether it even has a future.
This sounds familiar…
