What's better than a Steven Moffat episode? A Neil Gaiman one? Or how about Gareth Roberts?
Closing Time begins with the Doctor on a farewell tour visit to Craig Owens from last years The Lodger. Really it's a two-hander between Matt Smith and James Corden and the interplay between then is excellent. It also has this years "what the?" moment when the Cybermen capture Craig and begin to convert him. For a moment I thought they were going to go through with it (which was the effect Roberts was hoping for when writing that scene. If they had it would have been the blackest thing ever to happen in Doctor Who).
The only letdown the was the last scene. It would have been better to end it with the kids in the street watching the TARDIS depart instead of cutting to Madame Kavorian and company setting up River for next weeks episode (Frances Barber's over-acting annoyed me). But otherwise Closing Time was one of the best episodes of this series.
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