Sometimes we need help remembering that Doctor Who can’t be all fun and games, and “The Woman Who Lived” served that purpose successfully.
Don’t let the fact the last few seasons of Doctor Who sometimes fell into underwhelming storytelling ruts fool you into thinking otherwise.
“Heaven Sent,” the penultimate episode of Season 9, was not just the finest hour of the Capaldi era, but also Capaldi’s finest hour on the show.
In the end, once the Doctor and Clara experienced the Darkest Timeline, the two quickly made up, thus putting a bow on Capaldi’s first season as the Doctor.