![]() She reinforces her memory by having conversations with an imaginary, idealized version of the mother she never knew (WARNING! PLOT POINT ALERT!). Occasionally someone remembers the truth and is imprisoned for "memory crime." Bill's one of these people, but fortunately she's never found out or hauled off to jail. For some reason, the Doctor regularly appears on TV praising the monks, touting their benefit to humanity and reinforcing the lie. Using subliminal mind control, they make it seem like they've been here for thousands of years, gently guiding human development. We begin six months after the previous episode, as the Monks have taken control of Earth after Bill gave them her consent. did a storyline featuring a Trumpian dystopia ruled by misinformation, and this week Doctor Who gets in on the act as well, with a similar episode all about "Fake News!" Thank Thor for Trump, I guess, else our sci-fi shows would be plotless in 2017! He may have an all-time low approval rating, but our sci-fi TV series apparently can't get enough of the guy and his bizarre views on the media! Earlier this year Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Worst of all, when they're eventually defeated, they bugger off in silence, without so much as a "You haven't seen the last of us, Doctor!" The Monks finally make a token appearance in the third act and toss a few anemic lightning bolts and a couple soldiers, but that's pretty much it. waltz right into their headquarters, bent on destroying them. They seemingly sit back and do nothing, even when the Doctor and Co. They're extremely weak and uninteresting villains, and I'm still not entirely sure what their plan was, other than generic world domination. The worst part of the episode though is the Monks themselves. The episode's also quite derivative, as it blatantly apes The Last Of The Time Lords, along with cribbing elements from Turn Left and even The Wedding Of River Song. Sadly, the way the story's written it can't work without them. The episode is also riddled with contrivances, that pile up like cars on a California freeway. The script tries to cram way too much into far little screen time, rushing from one scene to the next with no time for the audience to catch its breath. There are some good character moments in the episode, especially from the excellent Pearl Mackie as Bill Potts, but overall the storyline is lacking, and a sub-par ending for the trilogy. This week on Doctor Who, we finish the loose trilogy that started in Extremis and continued in The Pyramid At The End Of The World.
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