There's a 2-parter episode in the middle of the season about the Zygons written by the guy responsible for Kill The Moon. I am not looking forward to that at all. Zygons seem a little comical. Osgood would have made a brilliant companion in place of the awful Clara, but they already basically said that's not happening. Why do they keep Clara? Zygons rising up against UNIT just seems so cliche and simple, and when the biggest gimmick is an army of them, hopes are low. Doctor Who has a history of thinking a lot of an alien makes them scarier, when their combined threat level still amounts to just one alien's worth. Especially with the stealthy Zygons, an army of them isn't necessary. Why not an episode of one rogue Zygon killing a series of people or something? He might not know their invasion failed, and now he's pulling off the perfect crime - possibly framing the Doctor. Done, there's an episode.

A few hyped episodes with no details worth sharing. Just a "trust us, this will be amazing." And including the 2-part finale. The most optimistic I can be is hope that they were kept vague to cover the only little gimmick or twist about them that ruins the only fun of the episode. The scripts are most definitely poor.

Yet I don't see anything written by Jamie Mathieson, who wrote Flatline and Mummy on the Orient Express. Most of the Moffat era seems to be shallow scripts centered around neat-looking monsters of the week and a great deal of shots of running through hallways. Mathieson actually managed the get a lot more out of the timeslot. The plots seemed more complex despite meeting the action quota, the ideas involved were more fascinating, and he kept a sense of mystery about the villains, something I have missed since Moffat turned mysteries into action resolved by a magic wand. His writing actually improved the slowly failing show.