Warning: this story contains spoilers for the current series of Doctor Who.
When The Magician’s Apprentice finished airing last Saturday, you could feel the thud of several million jaws as they hit the carpet.
Clara dead! Missy dead! The TARDIS destroyed! The Doctor about to kill Davros!
Here, we thought, was going to be a complex morality tale about the nature of good and evil, with the Doctor facing an impossible dilemma.
Except it wasn’t. And he wasn’t.
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One of the episode’s key strengths was that it got the cliffhanger out of the way quickly and then got on with the story.
Missy and Clara survived, because… Read the full story