I kind of expected Omega to be a big ol’ nothingburger, kind of like Rassilon in “The End of Time”, so I wasn’t disappointed on that front.
There’s a lot of potential in Omega, though, and to be honest I don’t think any of the stories in which he appears have come anywhere close to taking advantage of it. He’s always just a generic madman.
I have a lot of conflicting thoughts about the Poppy stuff - you make some very good points. I do think the Doctor and Belinda were planning on being…non-romantic parents toward the end there, which seemed to make sense to me. But I’m really not sure what to make of the whole thing, on a logical or thematic level. Like I said in my first comment, they did manage to take it from something I had no investment in to something I was actually kind of sad about, so they get some credit there, but…I won’t be surprised at all if we learn that there was an earlier version of this story that went in a different direction.
I kind of expected Omega to be a big ol’ nothingburger, kind of like Rassilon in “The End of Time”, so I wasn’t disappointed on that front.
There’s a lot of potential in Omega, though, and to be honest I don’t think any of the stories in which he appears have come anywhere close to taking advantage of it. He’s always just a generic madman.
I have a lot of conflicting thoughts about the Poppy stuff - you make some very good points. I do think the Doctor and Belinda were planning on being…non-romantic parents toward the end there, which seemed to make sense to me. But I’m really not sure what to make of the whole thing, on a logical or thematic level. Like I said in my first comment, they did manage to take it from something I had no investment in to something I was actually kind of sad about, so they get some credit there, but…I won’t be surprised at all if we learn that there was an earlier version of this story that went in a different direction.