Doctor Who: All Of Series 8 And Last Christmas Ranked

8. Death In Heaven

The series finale has so many things going for it. An army of Cybermen, the Master singing "Hey Missy", a semi-regular (Osgood) being properly bumped off and then - to the audience's disbelief - a series regular (Danny) being offed, too. With all these elements (and flying Cybermen to boot), the episode cannot fail to entertain. It's fast paced, well acted and the effects are good. Why then, if there's nothing all that wrong with it, is Death in Heaven only 8th on this list? The answer: there are just too many plot elements that don't make sense. Most critically, the Master's plan is bonkers. Now, before you say anything, his/her plans are always over-complicated and insane, but this time the plan is even more nonsensical than usual. Did she mention... "bananas"? She has been following the Doctor up and down his timestream to upload the minds of particular people he's met to the Nethersphere. She causes Clara to meet the Doctor. She presents uploaded individuals with a choice in the Nethersphere (to delete or not to delete, that is the question). And then she converts untold numbers of dead humans into Cybermen. However, she could easily build her Cyber-army regardless of whether any of their number had met the Doctor previously, regardless of whether Clara was there and regardless of whether the uploaded minds had made a choice (unless emotions can't be purged the old-fashion Cyber way for some reason). Also, there's the whole question of how the Master escaped from Gallifrey in the first place. Leaving questions of logic aside, the inclusion of Cyber-Brig also feels tonally out of whack.