The plot was again weak, lacking substance and ultimately underwhelming. Missy/The Master taking over the world with Cybermen was bad to start with, sidelining the owed-a-good-story classic villains to basically henchmen, but then handing that army over to the Doctor in a feeble attempt to get him to 'join me on the dark side' was just nonsensical, out of character and poorly written to boot. In terms of gaps in the plot, the cyber-pollen has to be the worst; fair enough that they are programmed to grow new cybermen, but what about the materials? Unless the dead of centuries have been buried with computer chips, metal sheeting and a few yards of wire, it just doesn't hold water. (no pun intended).

The handling of Danny also annoyed me. Ok, we finally got a resolution to the conflict between him and the Doctor, but it was far harder to appreciate when, at most, he was sacrificing people who were already dead and likely to kill him. Then him taking command and remaining himself despite the inhibitor (which has never been, nor should be, optional for Cybermen) was again silly and badly written. Don't get me started on his face still being inside the suit.

Missy/The Master/Whatever, I'm still annoyed with. On a personal level because there was still no reason given for the regenderation, or explanation for how she escaped Gallifrey, when last we saw her she was being killed by Rassilon and chucked back into a Time War. On a more objective level, I have to say she did a somewhat decent job with the role in places, chanelling the John-Simm-esque 'mad as a box of frogs' lunacy, but ultiately, I still feel it was a role that never should have existed. And in terms of plotting, all she did was turn up largely for the shock factor, kill some people because she could, and then take over the world only to hand it over to the Doctor who was ostensibly in charge of it anyway...Poorly written, poorly handled and pooly thought out.

Osgood's death was slightly saddening, but ultimately a waste; ever since Day of the Doctor I'd been hoping she'd get those five words, 'all of time and space', and when at last she did, she was killed, for no reason other than to prove that The Master (who anyone who's seen the show in the past knows is insane) is insane...

There was also no real resoltution to all those characters that wasted our plot time by being 'Missyed' over the series, I suppose we can assume that they were Cybermen, but that's hardly satisfactory.

The writing out of Clara was just weak, there was really no emotion to it, it was largely unfounded, and really just pathetic. She's grown a lot as a character, to just sideline her based on a set of lies is again a massive waste and lacked any real impetus or feeling.

But by far the worst bit, in terms of sheer offensiveness, inappropriateness and 'look how radical I am' Moffatness, was the resolution of Kate's 'death'. To put it bluntly, I think that making The Brigadier a Cyberman is not only an insult to the late Nicholas Courntney, but also to the character as a whole anyone who ever wrote or watched the character. Glossing over the fact that, as previously mentionded, a Cyberman with a conscience largely stupid in this context, that's the fething Brigadier! It was just a cheap shot by Moffat to try and show that he's paying homage (read: dancing on the grave of) the classic show.

Ok, rant over. For now, at least...

The 'all of time and space' line is a major death sentence. As soon as The Doctor said that, I knew Osgood was a goner.

Overall, I enjoyed Missy and, personally I don't have any issues or complaints with her being The Master at all. I may be wrong but... When the Doctor shot her at the end, it was a blue disintegration, whereas the rest of the time, it was a red one. I imagine it's actually a transport beam of some form. So we'll probably see 'Missy' again.

With The Brigadier at the end, I can imagine that hugely irritating fans of the original show. On the other hand... He didn't self destruct. Could it be that there's been an intentional setup now of potentially having both Cyberman and Da'lek 'resistance' cells operating. So perhaps we'll see him again.

I didn't mind the hint for the Christmas show. It could be quite entertaining.

It also suggests that we haven't seen the last of Clara either. "Doctor, you know it can't end like that. We need to get this sorted. And quickly. She's not alright you know, and neither are you."

I imagine what will happen is. We'll have a Christmas special with The Doctor having his adventure on his own. Then in the last 5 minutes of the special, he'll be talked into going back to see Clara, they'll talk it out and she'll rejoin him for the next season. The whole Orson Pink thing wasn't resolved...

Negative things... Like Angels in Manhattan, they take a potentially interesting idea (Cyberman zombies), then take it to ludicrous extremes. - Really, was every dead person, from the last 50 years at least) becoming a Cyberman Zombie that necessary? They could very easily have had the exact same type of Graveyard Scenes if they had set it as something like 'those that the 3W company had access to since it was first set up.' That'd then allow the logic of, maybe the coffins or some sort of preparation were actually technologically designed to convert the dead into cybermen. As opposed to magic water.

Then all would need to have done was switch Danny's scene to him being in a coffin in a funeral parlour, as opposed to a mortuary slab. Heck, that'd have arguably been even 'scarier.'

It seemed a massive waste of Sanjeev Bashkar to just kill him off like that. Very strange too.

Unless there is a major future plot point with the Brigadier Cyberman, I can't see why they just didn't have the Doctor getting into the TARDIS as he did, then having it fly over to catch Kate, yet still have her injured/unconscious for the rest of the episode. That way, the character is kept around and loads of fans aren't annoyed.

I'm crossing my fingers that Nick Frost as Santa is going to be alright...