You are 100% wrong about The Crimson Horror. Let me explain why…
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Watched Arrow Season 2: Episode 1 during supper.
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Honestly, I find the Doctor and Cyber Planner stuff from Smith to be some of the more enjoyable parts of the episode. Granted, that’s very faint praise.
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I think the idea of “Mr. Clever”, basically a twisted version of the Doctor, manifesting in his mind and fighting over who has control is a cool idea. But it doesn’t work as the work of the Cybermen in my opinion considering how Mr. Clever is all bombastic and full of emotion. I think the Cybermites are a cool idea though.
Nightmare in Silver is my least favourite episode I’ve seen so far, probably (Fear Her is down there too), but it still has some good ideas. I think Cybermen upgrading themselves continuously to counter their weaknesses is a cool idea that makes sense since they’re all about survival. It also makes them scary as these incredibly resilient forces that practically never stop following you. Giving them superspeed is really stupid though.
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Agreed! I adore this story except that scene. Maybe my fave Gatiss new who ep.
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Watched “The Name of the Doctor” tonight.
I love it. I think it is a fantastic conclusion to the mystery surrounding Clara.
From the very beginning it graps a hold on me and doesn’t let go.
“What kind of idiot would try and steal a faulty TARDIS?” 
And that reveal at the end. I still get shivers, it’s so amazing!
So I had to watch “The Night of the Doctor” as well. It’s still a perfect Doctor Who episode distilled into 7 minutes.
No Paul McGann, you definitely wasn’t the Doctor I was expecting 12 years ago 
Oh “The Day of the Doctor” is next 
Tomorrow
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I saw part 2 of Spyfall yesterday (technically finished it this morning but eh), very different indeed. It’s not as perfect of a ‘film/tv genre gets infiltrated by Doctor Who and madness ensues’ but still really fun. And Sacha Dhawan is so incredibly good. One moment he can make me go lmfao with “I present the incredible shrinking device” and then he can genuinely make me shiver with “Did you just move?” and then at the hologram recording thing at the end he feels like an actual, grand Time Lord and not just a mad person. Like I knew he was good from the BF boxset, but seeing it was a whole other experience.
I didn’t actually mind the destruction of Gallifrey that much either. I think Whittaker and Dhawan sell it really well. It’s ofc a bit annoying in the grand scheme of things, but in isolation I think the moment works great here. And it’s not like it actually matters, you know if the next writer wants to, they’ll just introduce the Nine Gallifreys to TV or make up some other bullshit. As the saying goes: Gallifrey is only as destroyed as the showrunner wishes it to be (real thing they said at the Prydonian academy).
also plus point for evil billionaire, really guys, Chibnall warned us already why was Elon Musk not banned to the shadow realm the moment this aired
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The first part of The Daemons is very fun and very very very weird and I’m so excited to see where this serial goes from here 
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Going in for the last 20 minutes of When to Die…
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Good luck… 
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Well that was certainly a thing.
I genuinely don’t know what Baggs was thinking with some of the direction or choices. For example, whose grave are they at in the final scene (before the weird ‘let’s go to Spain’ coda)? Because if it’s supposed to be the supersoldier’s, why is it so obviously old and weathered? (It even has bird muck on it). Surely they could have found a more modern-looking stone.
And there are so many scenes of people just standing looking emotionless.
Everything - literally everything - in this is bad. I gave it 1/5 because I feel bad giving less simply because at least Hazel Burrows as Liz is trying to make it work and there’s some semblance of a decent story hidden behind the appalling direction and acting. When whoever (I’m assuming Baggs) decided to go ahead with this so long after the original four and after Caroline John’s death, I would love to know why they thought it was a good idea and what their purpose was.
I thought I’d go and look up some non TG reviews of this… I found some particularly hilarious comments.
This gem is from a 4/5 review on Amazon (yes a 4 out of 5 star review for When to Die).
Still, all that said, the actual plot is pretty gripping throughout, and the direction as good as I’ve come to expect from Bill Baggs (making me wonder again why he hasn’t gone further in the profession).
A 5 star review says this:
A blast from the past, I’d love to see more of these, reminds me of mid 90s and a total lack of WHO and Bill Baggs swooping to our aid.
This 1 star review would seem to be the most realistic and written by someone still with their critical faculties intact…
Everything that made the original PROBE series is seriously lacking here. Recasting Liz Shaw and Louise Jameson is a terrible mistake. They should have created a new team altogether (Sally Arnold from the Auton series would have been a good choice) Mark Gatiss’s scripts were exciting and great story telling. This plot is a garbled mess with hideously low production values. PROBES resurrection should have been with a clean slate. Never been so disappointed as the original series was a fantastic edition to the Whoniverse. lets hope PROBE has finally shut its doors for good.
(And yet this reviewer didn’t get their wish because Baggs decided he needed a vanity project of talking to camera for no discernible reason…)
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Oh my I’m pressing play on “The Day of the Doctor” just now
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Watched half of Episode 1 of The Androids of Tara during lunch.
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Which half lol
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The first half.
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By the Hand of Omega itself do I still get goosebumps by watching “The Day of the Doctor”.
Right from the Hartnell intro with a fade to colour just after until all the Doctor’s faces come flying at me in the end credits it is perfect!
“No sir! All thirteen!” 
Nothing but love from me to this utterly amazing special! 
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The middle three quarters and a bit half…
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I find it amusing that some people criticize that it seems like just a celebration of the modern series, when the whole climax of the episode is all of the Doctors being there. Not to mention bringing back a popular one-off classic monster, as well as Tom Baker himself, and countless references to the classic series throughout.
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I think that crit is of its time in 2013 when we were all expecting and hoping for some Classic companions or Doctors and what we got was David Tennant. I love Day desperately but at the time it very much did feel like Classic was a little sidelined, though as you say watching it now it isn’t. It’s a celebration of it all
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