Board Thread:Whoniverse Discussion/@comment-24121492-20151025062746/@comment-15395126-20151025123502

I love how cinematic the trailers for this episode looked. It's an aesthetic I hope The Zygon Invasion has when it airs and that Doctor Who maintains afterwards.

That said, I think this could be the episode where we see The Day of the Doctor material being discussed; we could see the Doctor arriving to save Gallifrey, explaining his cameo.

I don't overly like UNIT. I'm also not really a fan of "interquels," so my hope is that this episode takes place after both The Day of the Doctor AND Death in Heaven. It's plausible to me that the Zygon Osgood was killed by Missy; if the real one was indeed murdered, I'd like to see the Zygon Osgood being used to lure the Doctor/UNIT into a trap.

I'm hoping this episode and its sequel make me a fan of the Zygons. I never watched Classic Who, so they were brand-new to me in The Day of the Doctor. Not knowing who to trust because the Zygons take human form is an interesting plot element; here's hoping this episode, which Moffat promised is a commentary on today's world, lives up to my expectations. After all, as epic as Series 9 has been to me, there are elements in each episode that has aired thus far that I find painfully underwhelming.