It feels like Peter Capaldi’s first year of Doctor Who has only just begun, yet this weekend is the first part of Season 8’s finale already!

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As we prepare to head into ‘Dark Water’ on Saturday night, CultBox has decided to take a look back at the previous ten episodes and reveal our favourite so far…

 

10. ‘Time Heist’

What we said: “For the bulk of its running time, ‘Time Heist’ plays – as it intends to – like a sassy, spacey variation on the heist thriller … This may be the trouble with such relentlessly twist-driven, time travel adventures: the need for exposition overrides the need for emotional truth.”

 

9. ‘In the Forest of the Night’

What we said: “An overgrown London, with familiar landmarks emerging from the trees like lost furniture in an untended garden, is the kind of freakish occurrence in a near-contemporary setting that characterised the Third Doctor era. The ecological subtext is also solidly Pertweeovian.”

 

8. ‘Into the Dalek’

What we said: “Ford and Moffat may be embracing Terrance Dicks’s mantra that the best ideas are honestly stolen. But in an age of moral relativism, and in a series which believes wholeheartedly in the power of redemption, it makes sense that the programme should return to the idea that even the embodiment of evil might have a soul.”

 

7 . ‘Robot of Sherwood’

What we said: “This is an episode that is unmistakeably by Mark Gatiss in its execution and which is as pun-packed as its title might suggest. Gosh, it is fun. Incredibly fun.”

 

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