YMMV / Doctor Who S35 E4 "Before the Flood"

• Anti-Climax Boss: Despite being built up as a huge threat, the Fisher King doesn't do that much other than killing O'Donnell off screen. He exchanges words with the Doctor, leaves the room and gets hit with a flood. The ghosts stay the main threat.
• Fridge Logic: While it was cool, Cass didn't really need to feel the vibrations through the floor - she's deaf, not blind. She could just have looked behind her.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The Doctor's Kirk Summation to the Fisher King, accusing him of breaking the rules of life and death, becomes this after events later in Series 9.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The Doctor teases the audience in the Cold Open about taking Ludwig van Beethoven's place via time travel. In 2020, Peter Capaldi and Sophie Stone (Cass) acted in the BBC Radio 3 audio drama Beethoven Can Hear You, voicing respectively the composer himself and a time traveller from the future who comes to visit him.
• Relationship Writing Fumble: Cass and Lunn spend so much time worrying about each other and making physical contact that the most surprising thing about the reveal they love each other at the end is that we weren't supposed to think they were already in a relationship.
• The Un-Twist:
  • Because of previous In-Universe fangirl deaths, O'Donnell's death was pretty easy to see coming. The twist is the Doctor's rationale for letting it happen.
  • The Doctor's survival was obviously a foregone conclusion.

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