I watched Twice Upon a Time on Christmas Day (night).
My feelings towards it are similar to what they were when i first watched it last Christmas Day. Some lovely poignant scenes with Mark Gattis, a decent farewell for Peter Capaldi, some good ideas - Rusty alone in it's tower with hundreds of Dalek mutants desperate to destroy it - and some excellent scenes with the first Doctor. However here's where the problem lies. Steven Moffat gave us a sexist caricature of the Hartnell Doctor and even though David Bradley was very good, the sexist comments the first Doctor made were cringe inducing and not in character at all.
This unneeded trait Moffat gave the first Doctor still makes me feel bitter towards the episode and drags the scoreline down from an eight to a six out of ten.
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