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It was a crime that you did not highlight the best part of this two-parter: The fact that Donna's dream man is a guy with a stutter so she can talk as much as she wants without interruption, and the utter tragedy this results in when that guy comes back to life at the end of the episode and Donna JUST misses him because he can't call out her name in time. Like GOD, that ending stuck with me for a LONG time after I first saw it...

The Vashta Nerada were easily one of the most hardcore, one-off story enemies in the New Who era. 💀👨‍🚀

I just realised Donna's dream arc did Wandavision years before Wandavision was made.

I think one of the saddest things in this episode is when Donna is speaking to her kids before they disappear they say “when you blink it’s like we don’t exist” and she says “I promise to never blink again” then it cuts to the next shot and you actually see her blink and then her kids are gone

You forgot one of my favorite moments from this episode:
“How are you holding up?”
“I’m okay.”
“Is ‘okay’ super secret Time Lord speak for ‘not really okay at all’?”
…
“Because I’m okay too.”
Not only is this moment so human by coping with grief by making a bit of a joke, but it shows how much Donna is becoming like The Doctor. Enough like him to know how he’s feeling and to hide her feelings the same way he does. For shadowing the meta crisis even further.

Omg how can u not mentions the parallels when the 10th doctor says “Time can be rewritten” then she says “don’t u dare” then how her younger self in 11th says “Time can be rewritten” then the doctors older self is the one saying “don’t u dare”. They learn the rules & consequences of time from each other’s older self who then teaches the younger.

Alex Kingston absolutely killed it in this two-parter, especially for only an introduction.

Her mixture of grief, love, and understanding were heart-wrenching.

That image of the woman's distorted face terrified me when I was younger. I still find it quite scary now.

"I'm the Doctor and you're in the biggest library in the universe. Look me up."

One of the Coldest lines of 10's era.

"Don't tell the others, They'll only laugh-"

TEARS EVERYTIME!! 😭😭

Primal fears are usually the most terrifying and relatable. its so good.

The Doctor: let me do this!
River: if you die here it will mean I never met you.
The Doctor: time can be rewritten...
River: not those times. Not one line, don't you dare. It's okay, it's okay, it's not over for you. You'll see me again. You've got all of that to come. You and me. Time and space. You watch us run.

No matter what my opinions are about River's character in future seasons of the show, that scene breaks me. Reduces me to sobs, every single time.

That connection between “Sunday’s are boring” and the Chibnall era episodes airing on Sunday is gold!

The fact that at the end of the 2nd part, Donna is looking for her Husband/Boyfriend, they leave and then we actually see him proving he was real and looking for her, THAT scene to me is the most sad scene in the entire 2 parter, you see just how close they were to being back together but JUST missed each other.

Shows that you can be extremely close to something, nearly getting there but the smallest of mistakes can destroy it all but it also shows the opposite, that we know he was real meaning the love they had for each other was also real.

You know it's a good episode when they make "hey who turned out the light" a phrase that gives you goosebumps

Oh my god how could u not mention the saddest part of the whole series, when the guy with the stutter can't call out Donna's name at the end before he is teleported away 😭😭😭

One thing though that no one really talks about is that these people in the library have been missing for decades. Gotta feel for them, everything and everyone they knew is basically gone.

Fun fact: Moffat considered Doctor Moon to be one of the doctors incarnations (maybe the final one) when writing this story.

These episodes are just devastating after watching River’s story in her order. I’ll leave it here if anyone wants to try it (I thoroughly recommend it):
1. A Good Man Goes to War
2. The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon
3. Let’s Kill Hitler
4. Closing Time
5. The Wedding of River Song
6. First Night/Last Night
7. First Night/Last Night (River from 5 years later)
8. A Good Man Goes to War (Frost Fair)
9. A Good Man Goes to War (Demon’s Run)
10. The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon
11. Bad Night/Good Night
12. The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang
13. The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone
14. The Wedding of River Song (meeting Amy)
15. Rain Gods
16. Last Night (failed trip to Darillium)
17. The Angels Take Manhattan
18. The Husbands of River Song
19. Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead
20. The Name of the Doctor