At this point, talking about all the things that are controversial, or kind of bad, or just downright weird about the Doctor Who season 15 finale kind of feels like beating a dead horse. “The Reality War” is just not a great episode. It’s fully apparent that the ending we got wasn’t the ending Russell T. Davies initially set out to write, and it certainly seems as though Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor wasn’t originally meant to regenerate quite this early in his run. The stunt casting of former companion Billie Piper as… whatever role she’s meant to be currently playing is basically the definition of a last-second Hail Mary. And that’s before we even get to the fact that the show finally seemed poised to solve a 60-year-old mystery… before whiffing on it entirely.

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