Spyfall part 2 thoughts?
Not the worst follow up episode but the first was far better - just had a far better mystery and just seemed to flow better. Found this was a bit messy at times.
I kind of liked the hopping to different times but also felt it might have been better focusing on just one time. One of my biggest issues with series 11 is it often felt like stories had lots of interesting ideas thrown together so good ideas never got to fully develop and when we did get them they got very watered down. For example the war torn Paris location was great and seeing the Eiffel Tower in the war torn background looked beautiful and I felt like there was a full episode screaming out. So much they could have done but with time constraints and possibly budget to it never happened. I did enjoy the master following and changing disguises which reminded me a lot of Delgado's master.
I wasn't a fan of the companions as a full package in series 11 as there where too many and Yaz was just there but last week they all seemed to get used very well and even Yaz seemed to develop and even had uses and a purpose but this seemed to get thrown out in part 2 with Yaz mainly in the background again and the whole group just not doing much.
I would have preferred if we had not seen the group until the end and spent the time with the doctor in the past with the doctor once reunited with her Tardis having to land it on the crashing plane to save them. This would have given us more time with the doctor in the past and probably more realistic then ryan flying the plane via a phone although I can let that slide.
As for Gallifrey I'm split. It does seem a bit pointless to have the doctor thinking right up until the 50th he (or she) had destroyed gallifrey to learn he'd saved it for the master to go and destroy it. I also have seen people thinking the timeless child will be the show trying to redo the cartmell masterplan and bring back the other which I hope not. It sounds good at face value but when you dig deeper I think it could ruin the show. It would either make the doctor someone powerful in time lord history which I feel the doctor works best as just a normal timelord or could make him human or part human and we all know how that went down. The doctors past works best being unanswered as a mystery as the more we learn the less mysterious the character becomes.
I do like that the show is trying to do something however. Its certainly got people talking as I felt series 11 just didn't have much to say as it was a bit dull. I also felt we finally got to see some range from Jodie who felt very one note for me in series 11. This time we've seen her get scared, sad and angry and I'm interested to see where the series goes