people online are so weird and negative about anything that messes around with form, but this and the last davies episode (ignoring the moffat-does-moffat in between) are some of the best and strangest and most interesting stuff to come out of the modern series.
i adore the themes the series has been playing around with from different anglesβboundaries of reality, heralds, systemic isolation and abandonment, the stories we tell ourselves to cope with the tragic and the inexplicable.
this all is really some next-level use of the form to explore what's making life so fucking difficult in the world we have been handed lately.
