Reaktion Round-Up: What You Thought of The Zygon Inversion

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I don’t even have to make a Zygon related pun, as the poll already does one for me! It’s a Christmas miracle!

Best of Series 9 41.89%  (124 votes)
Brilliant: Accept no imitations 42.23%  (125 votes) 
Bonnie (from the Latin for ‘good’) 10.14%  (30 votes) 
What a let down. 4.05%  (12 votes) 
Anyone who enjoyed that is a sucker. 1.69%  (5 votes)
 

So, if we learned last time that we’ve given Peter Harness a bit of a harsh time, I think we’ve learned this time that we’ve really underestimated him. Cause man if that doesn’t forgive Kill the Moon then I don’t know what will! (Although to be fair, this episode was co-written by Steven Moffat).

Before we get to that scene, we’ll talk about the other great things in this episode. The scene’s in Clara’s head? Great. Jenna Coleman as Bonnie? Great. Kate Stewart’s five rounds rapid? Perfect. The fact that there’s still two Osgoods going around, and we still don’t know who’s who? Brilliant.

Now. That last scene. That scene has got to be one of the best speeches, if not one of the best scenes in Who history. I was always adamant that the saving of Gallifrey in 2013’s The Day of the Doctor doesn’t undo the fact that the Time War still happened, and that the Doctor did some unspeakable things, so to see this fact emphasised was really important to me. It was also, after a season and a half, the Twelfth Doctor’s defining moment for me. Only the Twelfth Doctor could’ve shown the rage and ferocity expressed in the climactic speech. You really see a beaten down, weary Doctor, who still firmly believes in what he says. We’re so lucky to have Peter Capaldi as the Doctor.

Ratings were on the rise this week. The overnights rose from 3.87m to 4.13m, and the overalls also rose from 5.76m for Invasion to 6.03m for Inversion. The Appreciation Index score increased by two from part one, from 82 to 84.

So what did our K-readers seem to think? They seemed to have nothing but praises!

So, that’s another Reaktion Round-up complete. I was going to write another one tonight, but I’m a little tired. ‘Till the next episode! (Whatever that’s about).

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