I have to be honest a little slow this was but the last 20 minutes made up for it and a few shocks along the way to pull at the heart strings. Very Very well done to all at the BBC and Steven Moffat wrote that just perfect it was back to the high point of what RTD did – and that was to drag you into the doctors world and then break your heart. Did it do it for me it sure did i did have a tear and then when Amy came back that just finished me off and i had tears rolling down my face. Then to end it all a look at Peter then new Doctor. Rock on late 2014

Need time to reflect on what I saw, but just want to say welcome to the 12th Doctor.

The show is his now.

It was a beautiful episode and brought together the best of Matt and what his Doctor was and represented :). It was great for Karen to be there for his last and Clara was her usual not taking no for an answer attitude. You go girl!!. I loved Peters entrance those eyes are just…i could stare at them all day lol

I found parts to be a little rushed. Special, to me, should have been 1.5 hours and parts in it that were explained via narrative should have been explained by scripted action/dialogue. YAAAAAAY for finally seeing Peter and the little touch from Matt of shedding the bow tie, but the regeneration “false alarm” and one minute he’s Matt the next he’s Peter left me a bit…unsatisfied. That said, I really cannot wait to see Peter’s first episodes!

Guys am I wrong. Tasha is River? He said she was once a psychopath. And she flew the tardis. And she said she blew up the Tardis and in that episode it was River at the heart of the explosion.

Matt doing old was humble and very well done.

Capaldi I’m sure will do well after that entrance.

And the crack ?! After all this time. Perfect. And all along from 3 years ago the time lords caused crack? Which would mean the time lords gave the doctor Amelia. Perfect

i feel like i have to regenerate myself now because of all the feels

@Mira Shareif
Why would the time lords causing the crack meant they gave the doctor amelia pond, though?

Oh, so much good. <3
All the loose threads wrapped up, 11's entire run being in the wrong order (as per time travel), the spectacular regeneration… <3
The one thing that let me down was the big scripted for the 12th Doctor. Capaldi will probably be great, but that actual scene seemed kinda… Eh.
"BAM hello oh okay I'm crashing for no reason just like last time kay credits time."

Okay,I cried like a little baby at the end, and carried on after the credits for ten minutes, and then cried whenever I saw a picture of Matt Smith. Which happened a lot due to my bedroom wall covered with Doctor Who posters.
I REGRET NOTHING!

Anyway, the episode as a whole was just brilliant. It was the perfect episode for the 800th episode and Matt Smiths send off. It was like the whole episode was a tribute to the 11th Doctor. (In my opinion he will always be the 11th Doctor, not the 12th)
It just had everything that made you love the 11th Doctor. Funniness, Bow ties, giraffe dance, Children waiting for him, rule number one, fish fingers and custard, the list goes on.

I noticed there were a few loop holes in the story, but I’ll let it pass.

So, down to the end, the ending was just brilliant. Truly emotional. And the 12th Doctors first moment was just great. I am looking forwards to the next season!

It’s an end of an era with the 11th Doctor, I hope Matt smith will appear again for an anniversary episode. I didn’t always like the 11th Doctor, but after time I grew to love him, and I cried more than I expected! While he still isn’t my favourite, (That goes to the 10th!) He will always be one of MY Doctors.
Goodbye Raggedy Man. ( Oh dear I’m crying again!) Geronimo!

So then who bellowed “Silence will fall” in The pandorica opens and who came through the crack in the eleventh hour????????????????

Well, it’s time to say goodbye to the Era of the Eleventh, and all the unanswered questions that go along with it. And there are still many questions left unanswered, or answered in rushed talk that leaves me wanting and still wondering.

Not too much happened in the episode, did it? Perhaps another few viewings will help. Have no idea who those people were living in the town of Christmas. Where did they come from? How did they get there? The planet was really Trenzalore? Eh.

Just a whole lot of the Doctor sitting around doing nothing and getting extremely old doing it. The ancient Eleventh was wonderful, but then all that built up power of the aged man was deleted by the reappearance of young 11. I don’t understand that one. We saw a regeneration more powerful than 10’s (which set the TARDIS afire). This regeneration blasted a Dalek mothership and who knows what else(?) to smithereens. Then 11’s still there wandering the TARDIS, but he’s young again.

Then suddenly 12 is there and complaining about the color of his kidneys. I would have been more impressed had the mighty explosive regeneration really been the end of 11 and if Clara, upon entering the TARDIS, encountered 12 immediately.

This is all pouring out of me having just finished watching BBC America’s broadcast which was HORRIBLY DRAWN OUT with commercial after commercial after commercial after commercial after commercial. Oh, did I mentions all the commercials?

Maybe watching it all in one straight through shot will bring it all together more solidly.

And who was it that said, within the TARDIS, “Silence Will Fall”? I have no idea.

Looking forward to the Era of the 12th!

Very poor episode. I did not really see the point of the Doctor being in it. He just sat around and aged. The running naked gag was rubbish. The Daleks and Cybermen were the best parts of it. The wooden Cybermen especially. The Angels, Sontarans and the “laughable” Silence were underused. The most ridiculous regeneration sequence EVER! Embarrassing! It would have been so much better, after the regeneration scene to have had Peter C already in the TARDIS! It really is time Steven Moffatt left as well. We need someone who understandings Doctor Who to lead the series.

Liked the episode, but still feel The Day of the Doctor was better. Matt Smith was genius, and it was great to see him play really old really well.

OK, so this opinion is in the knowledge that I’ll have to watch the episode again to pick up on everything.

I agree the episode did feel rushed, but I also agree that the End of Time two-parter was too slow, so it was always going to be a balancing act.

I thought the revelation that the Silents are Confessional Priests of the Papal Mainframe was a very interesting direction to take their characters. I actually like that the Silents we’ve seen so far were part of a renegade group of priests.

Like Simon, I have no idea who said “Silence Will Fall” into the Tardis in Series 5 and I have no idea how Tasha was able to pilot the Tardis.

Also, what she said along the lines of:

“It’s always been easy piloting the Tardis, it’s piloting the Doctor that’s difficult”

That was quite a cryptic remark. I’m also not sure how the renegade priests under Kovarian were able to blow up the Tardis.

How is it that they’re so familiar with the operation of the Tardis?

I think this episode has highlighted one of the existing problems I’ve had with the Steven Moffat era and that’s that he has wasted Centuries of the Doctor’s life off-screen.

At the end of Season 6, he aged three hundred years off-screen and in Time of The Doctor, the Doctor spent another three hundred years on Trenzalore.

I know he’s commented that we only ever see a fraction of the Doctor’s life, but that’s been fine before, why does Moffat have to go to the extreme of making him live nearly 600 years off-screen?

I doubted everything would be resolved anyway.

Obviously, the Time Lords and Gallifrey are still out there and evidently safe enough that they can communicate through the scar tissue of the cracks, as well as grant the Doctor new incarnations.

As well as that, the Shakri are still out there with their Tally and desire to eradicate the human race.

Once again, I think the hype of the inclusion of the most powerful aliens of the Doctor Who universe gathering around Trenzalore was just that ……… hype.

The Daleks and the Cybermen were just bit characters with no major role in the episode except to sit above the planet for 300 years and attempt to kill the Doctor to stop the return of the Time Lords.

It was like the Time War featuring in The Day of The Doctor. It did, but it was really only background noise.

I was surprised too that Tessa Peake-Jones of Only Fools and Horses fame only had a cameo in the episode. I thought there would have been more, since she was in the publicity photos, but that wasn’t too much of a problem, just a surprise.

I really liked that Karen Gillan came back for the 11th Doctor’s last moments, so he got to see both Amelia Pond and Amy Pond one last time, even if it was through some kind of hallucination due to his regeneration.

As difficult as this is for me to say, I think it worked better than the 10th Doctor saying goodbye to his companions, but for the understandable reason that the 11th Doctor only had three companions in Amy, Rory and Clara, so there were much fewer to say goodbye to.

The 11th Doctor saying goodbye to Amy was really nicely done though and again, I think it was great of Karen to come back for that sequence.

The transition between 11 and 12 was bizarre. Incredibly explosive and then that weird hang where the 11th Doctor’s young body was restored, before a sudden “regeneration hiccup” and the 12th Doctor was born.

Peter Capaldi didn’t get very long to make any kind of impression and I’m not sure that I like that the Tardis is crashing again like it did before, but he’ll have Series 8 to really make his impact and I have a good feeling about him.

Overall, a good episode. Not quite as mindblowing as I was expecting, but good nonetheless.

The single worst episode EVER. It was slow, boring and didnt make any sense. The writing for Matts tenure has been disappointing to say the least. Matt was a poor Doctor but the scripts didnt help him at all.

Cant wait to see what Capaldi brings and really looking for a major improvement next season.

I forgot to mention, I also really liked the character of Handles. It was really strange that the Doctor formed a relationship with the head of a Cyberman and even stranger that I, in the audience, did too and it was actually sad when Handles stopped working for the last time.

It was the death of a friend for the Doctor and that made it strangely sad.

It’s a shame you disliked the episode so much though Andy.

To me it didn’t seem half as interesting as Day of the Doctor, a little too serious and confusing (kept having to stop it and explain the plot to my family.) Will have to watch again though. Karen was such a nice surprise and Matt was amazing as always. Extremely frustrated by the commercial break during regeneration sequence – is nothing sacred?!

One question – Will we ever find out who gave Clara the Doctor’s phone number in the Bells of Saint John?

@JC
Handles reminded me of Older Amy’s robot friend in The Girl Who Waited!

Pretty terrible episode in my opinion and just about sums up Moffats era in sixty minutes. A few enemies thrown in but not doing anything, the companion cast aside and lots of focus on the Doctor and lots of complicated storylines. Matt as a Doctor is good and had lots of potential but the writing has never been good for him which is a shame, and his exit left a lot to be desired. I’m still not even sure what he died of, I assume old age? But nothing was explained, lots of plot points with very little time to explore them. Clara is a promising companion and I do like her, but she doesn’t do anything. She has a very similar problem to Eleven, good characters with lots of promise but ultimately fail to deliver due to bad writing. The cameo from Karen was good but as I never liked Amy Pond, it made little difference to me. The only positive thing I can say is I do look forward to Capaldi and I hope the Doctor/companion dynamic returns with him and Clara in series 8.

I actually feel far more sad about losing Matt as The Doctor than I did with Chris or David. I will miss him enormously and really do wish he had stayed for another year at least.