I'm afraid I've heard the same thing... in a way I'll be glad because I have to miss this one anyway, but it seems a shame to break up the run so early on. It's dissapointing to see the time already getting shuffled around too - that kind of thing can lose a show a lot of viewers through no fault of its own..

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From the horse's mouth - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6544729.stm (contains one very mild spoiler that you'd have to be a hermit with no telly to have avoided).

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Depending on if you like spoilers or not, you can head over to Outpost Gallifrey to get a listing of the episode titles for S3. I have to say, the last ep title for S3 is most intriguing...

"Welcome to the end of the thought process..."

It was all ok in the end - and a brilliant episode!

Honestly now...

It was - another top notch episode for Series 3 - that's three in a row with no fillers, I think they've learnt a few things from last series...

Not that series two wasn't good, it just wasn't always quite as great as this has been so far

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I've seen people complain about plot-holes, unrealistic behaviour, and the heavy handed moralizing (drugs bad, pollution bad, gay good).

But personally I liked it. The best description of why is that it was fun.

People who look for plot holes in these things annoy me... I mean of course you can find some, but just as equally you can find explanations for all of them, at the end of the day it's all fiction after all. I bet if you posted a list of these supposed plot holes now, we could work around all of them. Most of the time, it's just a case of people trying to apply their own perceived set of "rules" onto someone else's narrative, which just happens to have a clear set of its own..

The "unrealistic behaviour" (people sitting on a motorway jam for 20+ years) I think was very well done.. the fact that they were all trying to strive towards something better, and being rallied together by the hologram and the regular hymns, all made it quite believable to me - when people have that sort of faith, and not too much to give up and go home to, they'll put up with anything.. it may have been a little exaggerated, but that's quite in the mould of classic Who really.

As for the moralising, well drugs are quite bad, so is pollution, and gay is just, well, gay - the only real commentary on that was that Brannigan didn't like it too much.

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Well yes, but why not include the explanations for them? If I hear "The air will only last 8 minuets" it breaks my suspension of disbelief. I can think around and think they meant "The pollution will overwhelm us in 8 minuets" but by that time I'm not focused on the show.

That didn't occur to me tbh, I mean it's a Volkswagen hover-camper that's trapped in a pollution filled tunnel inches away from the Macra, thousands of years into the future, in a world where cats walk on two legs and speak with an irish accent - if someone says the air's going to run out in eight minutes, I'm sucker enough to believe them!

In truth, real people in that situation aren't likely to say "the pollution will overwhelm us in 8 minutes" anyway - it may be more factually correct (presumably), but it's longwinded and gets away from the point - the air's running out! That's why you'll never get all the explanations you want - if you have to stop every two minutes to explain another detail to the viewer, it just gets tedious - and a lot more likely to trip your disbelief switch.

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