This is the 4th time the Doctor has regenerated into David Tennant (Eccleston -> Tennant, Tennant -> Tennant, Whitaker -> Tennant, Tennant -> Tennant again) out of 15 lives, so anytime the Doctor regenerates there's about a 26% chance of him turning into David Tennant lol.

That strange sense of weirdness and confusion is probably the closest I'll ever get to the feeling viewers in the '60s must have had watching William Hartnell regenerate into Patrick Troughton.

A fun episode for sure, with a lot of turns I wasn't expecting. Acting as always was top notch, from the Doctors and also NPH as the Toymaker. The episode does feel rushed though. There weren't many moments to breathe and take in what was happening before being whisked off to the next plot point. All coming to a head when we have this never before seen mythic bi-generation, but we have to whizz past everyone's reactions so we have time to play catch and wrap the episode up within the time limit. I don't want to come off as overly negative because there was a lot to like here and I did enjoy it, but it really could have done with being a two-parter.

I hope he finds some pants

Well that ending felt weird

Definitely my favorite of the specials. Thought the acting was great. I wish they didn't do "catch" for the final game especially when they so poorly edited in all the catches. But whatever. And then i was shocked when Donna said "you don't have to stay forever" and they completely missed the line "I dont want to go". Felt like it would have been a great way to tie it up.

I love a Doctor Who script that understands that time travel screwiness aside, the thing that really works about Doctor Who is giving great actors a place to wax poetic and dramaticly chew the scenery. I felt that this episode did that nicely.

All four lead cast members rose to the occasion, and shared their energy.

I'm not sure I liked how the catch scene was done, but it's also kind of perfect. That was never going to work without NPH, and I'm not sure anything less silly could have felt right.

Maybe it's because I've ignored previews and trailers, but I was surprised (not unpleasantly so) that Gatwa used his native Rwandan accent rather than a British accent. He will clearly be a groundbreaking doctor in many ways.

I'd be fully onboard with bi-generation, if instead they had explained it happening because of the Toymakers abilities to mess with the laws of physics. I'm surprised they didn't go that route.

EDIT: I've been reading people talk about this idea on other social media platforms. I bet eventually RTD will confirm this. The bi-generation was a myth but the Toymakers powers did indeed bend the laws of the universe and make the myth a reality.

Fun episode. I loved the puppetry scene, but the bi-generation feels a bit weird to me. Interesting if they want to keep 14 around, or if he’s gone after the Christmas special.

I wasn't understanding how the Doctor allowed the Toymaker into our reality.

I heard him say that his sprinkling the salt on the ship deck in the second special is what allowed the Toymaker to enter, but I don't understand why just sprinkling salt on the ground would allow that to happen.

Could someone elaborate?

This was my favorite of this series of specials. I was pretty concerned that they had cast NPH as The Master for a bit there (I'm a NuWho Noob, so I had never heard of The Toymaker), but aside from that, it was pretty good! Ended up skipping through the song-and-dance number, though. Just wasn't for me. Intrigued by the bi-generation twist and the new generation. We got too little of 15 to really develop any sort of insight, but he seems solid enough so far. Looking forward to Christmas!

Also, where the hell did that hand come from at the end? It came from off the edge of the platform. Was it a POV shot? So confusing XD

So who did the toymaker stayed away from and not play a game with? Is that the "boss" the Meep was talking about? Or was that the doctor and I missed something?

Also... my reactions to seeing Mel were like this- *Thinks of Mel on TV* Ugh. Mel. *Remembers Mel on Big Finish* Hooray! Mel!