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My hand is up.
I had my hopes raised that this episode’s creature (shown in the season trailer) would turn out to be a Terileptil, but no such luck.
I enjoyed the episode, but I’m generally unimpressed by stories where a moral debate revolves around whether it’s OK to change established history.
It’s been done often enough with no apparent problem - the Tenth Doctor turning back the clock on the Toclafane, the Eleventh Doctor rebooting the universe (at the end of his first AND second seasons), the Third Doctor preventing a Dalek-ruled future, and arguably the Tenth Doctor preventing Harriet Jones’ “Golden Age” by deposing her early in her tenure. Not to mention the War/Tenth/Eleventh Doctors saving Gallifrey.
So being told that there’s no way history can be changed without catastrophic consequences - as in this episode and in “The Girl Who Waited” - rings false to me. As was pointed out in “Before the Flood”, the Doctor will always find a way if it means saving himself or his companion, but not if it only affects the guest cast. That the script admits this (by having a character accusingly point it out) does not actually solve the problem.
Also, I spent most of the episode convinced that that Prentis was being played by Derek Jacobi in makeup, but that is my problem.
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