Face The Raven Spoilers

A few bullets (bolds are my comments 🙂

Face the Raven

There’s very very little that can be said. No really, SNM had 1 thing on embargo (and rest left up to us to judge). This has about 7 IIRC. (Edit: The average is about 3-5 items) Not only that, but neither the writer, Sarah Dollard, nor Joivan Wade (Rigsy) have seen it yet (dafuq?).

• It’s a very emotional story and serves as the start of Clara’s leaving multi-week mind-fuckery (I knew it was a three part ending for her)
• Rigsy is back and is great. He needs exonerating and that’s not that simple when time is limited.
• The episode forms part of a loose 3-parter finale, a la series 3 and 4.
• It features some nice unique concepts that we’ve not really seen in Doctor Who, but that’s helped by the arc-
• The music is absolutely wonderful and does the story great justice. (Murray Gold will slay us all again)
• There’s a musical stint at the beginning that matches the beginning of a previous episode that…well that would be telling
• A certain Torchwood drug returns (I am calling the RETCON drug and I am not that excited by it? Does Clara take it? Is that why in the finale she doesn’t know who the Doctor is?)
• We get to see a side of the Doctor again that we’ve rarely seen. And it’s beautiful.
• Maisies back and her role is yet again slightly different.

Overall, this episode works very well. It’s not a stand-out classic, but practically everything about it is either good or great. I’m sure it’ll be clearer once the rest is seen but right now, I’m going for an 8.

If they erase Clara’s memories a la Donna again, I am going to lose it. That would be the one thing that would turn me off again.