Doctor Who fans it seems that I have for liking for reviewing regeneration episodes which trust me will stop come the new year. However I chose to review this episode in particular as it not only marks the departure of the actor playing the Doctor but also it's then current show runner and a long time composer and so then join me as I review the episode that really does feel like the end of an era for this show with the episode in question being called simply just "Twice Upon A Time" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is The Twelve Doctor finds himself sucked into a game of cat and mouse and it's one that involves a World War 1 soldier and two rather unlikely people. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad but that's also the issue as this episodes plot isn't that good either with the episode itself being rather aimless and pointless in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode is Peter Capaldi as The Doctor , David Bradley as The Doctor and Pearl Mackie as Bill Potts. Also starring in this episode is Mark Gatiss as The Captain , Jenna Coleman as Clara , Matt Lucas as Nardole , Nikki Amuka-Bird as Helen Clay , Toby Whithouse as The German Soldier , Lily Travers as Polly , Jared Garfield as Ben Jackson and Nicholas Briggs as The Voice Of The Daleks.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. With all of the actors doing there absolutely best to make this episodes script work well enough for them but the issue is that this episodes script gives the cast nothing to work with and so they can only do an OK job acting wise.
Doing the CGI for this episode is Milk , BBC Wales VFX and the legends and the greats that are currently over at Real SFX. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty pretty bad with the robot avatars looking like they would be at home in a late Playstation 2 game cut scene because that's just how bad this episodes CGI well and truly was.
This is of course the final episode to feature Peter Capaldi in the role of The Doctor and to be fair this episode does do a good job of making his particular regeneration seem epic. Which in a way it is since this version of The Doctor is really struggling to come to terms with the fact that he's dying and when you add in the fact that character has seen alot of his friends either choose to leave him willingly or die it really does make sense that this version of the character would just say enough and openly choose not to regenerate since it would mean his actual death and he'd get to be with all of the people that he holds near and dear to him again.
I have to admit that like alot of die hard Doctor Who fans I really did hate how thus episode treated The First Doctor. Since instead of being written like the world weary hero that he was at the point the his regeneration took place here he's instead written as somebody who will say the wrong thing just to offended Bill which wasn't and isn't in that version of The characters nature at all and to disrespect him in this way just goes to show that writer Steven Moffat really wasn't a fan of that particular version of the character at all.
For some reason just like with The Time Of The Doctor this episode has a scene where The Doctor says goodbye to all of his main companions. Which just didn't work for me in this episode since it didn't really earned and if anything it felt like that it was ripping of a much better scene which shouldn't be the case since a scene like this one should only be included if it works with the story which in this case it just didn't and while you very well could also make that case for the same scene in The Time Of The Doctor that scene felt earned because that entire episode was wrapping up several plot lines from every single Matt Smith series and having him in a way finally say goodbye to Amy was one of them and that just isn't the case with this episode.
Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly fifty none minuets and forty six seconds. Which was a bit of a long running time for this episode to last since there's not really much there interms of plot that really requires that long of a running heck you could have had this episode come in at the bogstanderd forty five minuets running time and you'd have to lose absolutely nothing that's actually vital to the plot of the episode.
So now then since this is an action filled episode that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. Which is very in keeping with this episode since we only get one action which while it is impressive you can tell that stunt doubles for both David Bradley and Peter Capaldi were used and that really did take me out of the action which was a shame because what I was seeing was OK at best in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this was a decent enough regeneration episode that did an OK job of doing what it set out to do the problem this episode is so average that I have no idea what it was that it was even trying to do in the first place and that's not a good thing at all in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode erns itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from IMP Awards . Com , the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the wonderful the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page are all fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly freaking high in definition.