YMMV / Doctor Who S34 E5 "Time Heist"

• Alternative Character Interpretation: The Doctor's statement at the end: "Robbing a bank. Robbing a whole bank. Beat that for a date!". Did the Doctor orchestrated the timing of the entire caper as a way of one-upping Clara's new boyfriend, or is he just excited that a chance to look cool fell on his lap.
• Cry for the Devil: While her fate after the episode isn't actually clear, it's hard not to feel some sympathy for Ms. Delphox. She's Affably Evil to a fault, but, in her conversation with Karabraxos, it's made pretty clear that she's just doing her job to avoid being killed. She's actually become something of an Ensemble Dark Horse, particularly on Tumblr, because of it.
• Estrogen Brigade: Clara's suit has a healthy fandom made up of lesbian and bi women.
• Harsher in Hindsight: "That thing killed people." "Well, so might you do to protect everything you loved." This exchange between Clara and the Doctor regarding the poor enslaved Teller, who was pining for its mate all along, becomes much more poignant in the wake of the events of the three-part Series 9 finale. The Doctor loses Clara to the grave, is imprisoned in a torture chamber, and emerges from it a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: willing to shoot his old friend the General and force a regeneration to create a distraction, and risking the existence of the entire universe by pulling Clara from the moment of her fixed-point-in-time death in hopes of bringing her back to life. (He even intends to mind wipe her of memories of him to keep her "safe".) Things end very bittersweetly for the two of them.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: A central plot point of Avengers: Endgame is a "Time Heist". (Endgame premiered 5 years after this episode.)
• Inferred Holocaust: The solar storm causes this as waves of fire wash over the surface. The bank patrons are last seen shouting in alarm, and Madame Karabraxos flees with what valuables she can grab, an act that suggests that even her most secure vault will eventually be destroyed by the flare. That said, a throwaway line by Ms. Delphox indicates that the customers were leaving anyway due to the storm.
• Retroactive Recognition: Yes, that is Lord Anthony Bridgerton helping rob a bank.
• Special Effect Failure: The old age makeup worn by Keeley Hawes as the elderly Karabraxos, while overall very good, has a visible seam between the prosthetic pieces on her cheek and upper lip where the two pieces have not been blended properly. This is not helped at all by the close-up angle at which the scene in question is shot
• Visual Effects of Awesome: The Teller is primarily a suit instead of CGI and benefits greatly for it, especially when it curls its eyestalks towards each other which had to be tricky for the BBC effects people to figure out.

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