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I still like season 2 a lot and will watch the anime movie that comes out in a few days as well, once I've watched the last two episodes of course. 

They might have been trying to portray Earth as a much more decadent place than a colony world, but it's more likely because they showrunner changed between seasons and the new one had different ideas for how the series was presented, perhaps influenced by criticisms aimed at season 1 for it's most extreme elements. 

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Just blame it on wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff and move on. 

The thing is, I found everything they presented in this episode to be completely plausible within the established lore. Clearly no one over on FB has heard of the saying 'history is written by the winners'. I find it extremely likely that the Time Lord origin as previously presented, with Rassilion and Omega as central figures, came about because after the ability to regenerate creates the Time Lords, they assume power and then paint themselves as some kind of God figures. At some point The Doctor (Ruth or close incarnation) while working for The Division begins to become a 'problem' including running away, which results in the Ruth Clayton identity under the Chameleon Arch being hunted. Eventually they catch up with her (in whatever regeneration) and do the memory wipe and reset them to a child, which is the young Doctor we actually see in Listen, who grows up to be Hartnell and runs away again. They also limit his regeneration's to the number set by Tecteun, essentially making him a 'normal' Time Lord. Maybe The Doctor sought to expose the Time Lord's origins, having become disillusioned with their work with The Division. It's just my personal theory right now, but I'm sure it's one way this doesn't outright contradict established lore. 

I think Trenzalore is also very explainable: they are Time Lords. If they can hide so much history from the living Doctor's mind I'm pretty sure they can also mess with the deceased Doctor's timestream, which doesn't even exist in that place anymore due to timey-whimey stuff. 

Ruth having a police box TARDIS is an issue, but I don't find it unreasonable to believe that The Doctor always liked that design and that the sentient TARDIS made the decision to pick that design. 

Of course the so called fans bitching about the changes to lore would probably also bitch if it had all turned out to be a ploy on The Master's part. You can't please those people. 

I can see this being very likely. I don't think they would bring him back for that brief part and have no scenes with the Doctor if they didn't have something else already planned.

In other news, two of the three companions have been announced to exit the show after the next special. Only Yaz will continue.

Is it too much to hope for a series 13 line-up of The Doctor, Yaz and Captain Jack?

One thing bugging me about that cliffhanger, how did the Judoon break into the TARDIS like that? It's always been a big deal before about how nothing can get in invited. It seems like a major plot hole. 

Biggest disappointment though? No Captain Jack. I was sure he'd sure up again in part 2. Maybe in the next special. I can picture him as an inmate in that prison the Judoon sent the Doctor to.