Tuesday, 31 March 2020

MK11 - Season 4 Starts THIS SATURDAY with Cetrion


MK11 BATCH 4 KLASSIC TOWERS
APRIL


The fourth and final instalment (at least for now) of Mortal Kombat 11 Klassic Towers is set to start in April.

Over the next ten weeks, there will be a new video uploaded each week, each episode focusing on the skills and techniques of a specific fighter.

BATCH 4 INCLUDES:

1. Cetrion - 4th April
2. Easter Towers - 11th April
3. The Terminator - 18th April
4. Jacqui Briggs - 25th April
5. Sonya Blade - 2nd May
6. Geras - 9th May
7. Frost - 16th May
8. Spawn - 23rd May
9. D'Vorah - 30th May
10. The Joker - 6th June
11. Kung Lao - 13th June

We'll be hearing a mix of voice announcers throughout the series, including: Shao Kahn, Johnny Cage, and Kronika.

As well that, as an added bonus, there will be a chance to see various characters beginners training videos. 

Seasonal tower challenges will follow based on popular annual holidays such as April Fools, Easter, and 4th of July. etc. 

Once all the tower videos are done, I'll move onto AL battles and 1v1 single fight matches. 

Stay tuned for all of that, and stay safe during these unusual, unprecedented, and unpredictable time in our lives. 

Sunday, 29 March 2020

COMING UP on The Sunday Showcase Podcast


COMING UP ON THE SUNDAY SHOWCASE PODCAST


Episode:  1/8
Broadcast Date: Sunday 5th April 2020
Time: 2pm
Published: Sunday 29th March 2020

Coming up on the podcast this week are Tips for Monday, Sunday Shoutouts, and an archive interview with singer/song writer Amelia Lappert. 

Keep a look out on the Radio Verulam website. 

Daniel Bury hosts. 

Thursday, 26 March 2020

Introducing the Sunday Showcase Podcast!



Hi everyone! 

I have an exciting announcement! 

Even though I’m currently off the air for the foreseeable future, it’s not the last you’ve heard of me. 

For the next eight weeks I’ll be producing a condensed version of the Sunday Showcase as a podcast. With edited highlights from the show including: 

  • Tips for Monday
  • Sunday Shoutouts
  • Guest Interviews and Highlights. 
  • And Much More! 

Go to the Radio Verulam website to listen in from Sunday the 5th of April. 

I’m super excited to share this with you all and hope you enjoy it.

Monday, 23 March 2020

Mortal Kombat 11 - New Season BATCH 4 - This April


MK11 BATCH 4 KLASSIC TOWERS
APRIL


The fourth and final instalment (at least for now) of Mortal Kombat 11 Klassic Towers is set to start in April.

Over the next ten weeks, there will be a new video uploaded each week, each episode focusing on the skills and techniques of a specific fighter.

BATCH 4 INCLUDES:

1. Cetrion - 4th April
2. Terminator - 11th April
3. D'Vorah - 18th April
4. Jacqui Briggs - 25th April
5. Sonya Blade - 2nd May
6. Geras - 9th May
7. Frost - 16th May
8. Spawn - 23rd May
9. The Joker - 30th May
10. Kung Lao - 6th June

We'll be hearing a mix of voice announcers throughout the series, including: Shao Kahn, Johnny Cage, and Kronika.

As well that, as an added bonus, there will be a chance to see various characters beginners training videos. 

Seasonal tower challenges will follow based on popular annual holidays such as April Fools, Easter, and 4th of July. etc. 

Once all the tower videos are done, I'll move onto AL battles and 1v1 single fight matches. 

Stay tuned for all of that, and stay safe during these unusual, unprecedented, and unpredictable time in our lives. 

Wednesday, 18 March 2020

Special Announcement - Radio Verulam Sunday Showcase


Hi everyone. 

I want to let you all know that this week’s showcase will still be going ahead. But, it will be my last show for a while. (Definitely at least for the next four to six weeks) 


The St Albans Mayor’s Pride Awards have been cancelled, and so have my guests I had booked on to come and talk about their nominations at this event. 


Rest assured this is only temporary and I hope I’ll be back to finish off the series. 


I’d like to take this opportunity to thank the team at Radio Verulam and to you for tuning in week on week. 


I hope that everyone is doing okay during this difficult time and stay safe. All the best. 

Monday, 16 March 2020

Mortal Kombat 11: St Patrick's Day Towers



To mark the occasion of St Patrick's Day tomorrow, Mortal Kombat 11 is celebrating this event with a series of tower challenges consisting of three boss fights with Kabal, Skarlet, and Kollector. All of which are in a green themed outfit to mark St Patrick's Day. 

There will also be a few surprises along the way including exploding leprechauns, rainbows, pots of gold and much more.

A special Mortal Kombat video is coming your way, being uploaded on the channel tomorrow from 1pm. Watch this space. 



Sunday, 15 March 2020

Coming Up on The Sunday Showcase


Episode:  6/24 
Broadcast Date: Sunday 22nd March 2020
Time: 2pm - 4pm 
Week 11: Monday 16th - Sunday 22nd March 2020
Published: Sunday 15th March 2020


Coming up this week on the Sunday Showcase, Anna Franklin and Amy Connery talk 'The Regina Monologues' at OVO Theatre and I'll be joined in the studio by this year's St Albans Mayor's Pride Award finalists in the Young Person of Distinction category.  

We'll also be revealing ways to treat mum on Mother's Day, plus Tips for Monday, Sunday Shoutouts, What's Going On In St Albans? and much more...

The fun, pacy, upbeat chat show continues next Sunday afternoon on Radio Verulam and on 92.6FM 

Daniel Bury hosts. 

Saturday, 14 March 2020

Mortal Kombat 11: Spawn is here! March 17th



Spawn is here! After much anticipation and waiting since the exciting announcement of Kombat Pack back in May/June 2019, the long awaited game play reveal trailer for Spawn was revealed a week ago last Sunday during the Final Kombat Championships.

Ed Boon said a few words to introduce the character, as did Spawn's voice actor Keith David who went into a bit of Spawn's background and how much of a delight it is to play him.

Spawn I think is by far the most wanted character and the character most players have most been looking forward to. 

Just going into a little bit of background about his character, Spawn was a soldier called Al Simmons who during the time of his untimely demise makes a deal with the devil and becomes Hell Spawn. He is then resurrected and returns to earth doing bad things for good reasons to horrible people, kind of like an agent from Hell as it were. But he is a good guy at the end of it. His morals maybe seem bad, but I think at the heart of what he does for a job, he is a good guy like Batman or Spiderman. 

Very excited to see Spawn released in Kombat Pack, I hope were all enjoy him. I'll probably be expecting to see lots of Spawn players in online matches or team matches online in the weeks to come.

If you haven't seen his trailer yet, you can enjoy it by watching it here.


Wednesday, 11 March 2020

Mortal Kombat 11: Who Would We Like To See In Kombat Pack 2?










MORTAL KOMABT 11
WHO WOULD WE LIKE TO SEE IN KOMBAT PACK 2?


Hi MK Fans,

This weekend has been massive for Mortal Kombat fans and players with the Final Kombat championships and the reveal of Spawn into Mortal Kombat 11.

Spawn is the last character to be revealed as part of the current kombat pack, rumour have been speculating around a kombat pack 2 and characters that gamers and fans would like to see in said kombat pack should it get officially announced.


If Mortal Kombat 11 continues to trend of DLC character releases like it has done for kombat pack 1, kombat pack 2 should be released sometime in 2020.


As it stands, Kombat Pack 2 is practically one big question mark, as next to nothing is known about it. One area where many fans may wish Mortal Kombat 11 to change up its approach is with its DLC, as the far-and-away release dates are less than ideal. However, that specific approach sets up a pattern by which fans of the franchise could potentially wait and see Kombat Pack 2 revealed.


Before moving forward, it's worth mentioning that Mortal Kombat 11's current lineup of DLC fighters consists of 6 in total: 3 guest fighters and 3 returning characters. It was four months after launch before fans of the franchise knew the identity of all 6 fighters, with only 2 having been released up until their reveal in August. This was also followed by a wave of negativity for their release dates, as many saw them as less than ideal, meaning it's not something NetherRealm will likely want to repeat.
Shang Tsung released in June, Nightwolf released in August (prior to the aforementioned reveal), Terminator released in October, Sindel in November, with Joker releasing at the end of January and Spawn in March. With the exception of Sindel's follow-up to Terminator in Mortal Kombat 11, these characters are all notably, if roughly, on a pattern of every other month.
It seems safe to assume that Kombat Pack 2 will follow a similar pattern, although unforeseen circumstances or development beats could admittedly make this later than expect, but one thing to consider is how many were frustrated that the first Kombat Pack itself did not receive a full reveal until after two characters had been released. Therefore, even if Kombat Pack 2 starts much later than anticipated, it seems safe to say a reveal will come before the first character.
After Spawn closes out the first Kombat Pack in March, the next logical addition would be in May unless there was a delay between packs. Even then, it shouldn't be for that long, and it's possible this schedule could sync up, with the first Kombat Pack 2 character launching in June like Shang Tsung for the first Kombat Pack. Of course, that's impossible to say for sure, but players can reasonably expect Kombat Pack 2 to close out 2020 to some degree.
Without repeating the mistakes of the past, players will want to know the identities of these characters as early in 2020 as possible. Rumors indicate Sheeva, Fujin, Stryker, and Ash Williams as potential characters so far, but until Mortal Kombat 11 does officially confirm this, it should be taken with a grain of salt.
That being said and just for fun, I'd like to reveal my personal suggestions for characters I would like to released in kombat pack 2.

Overall, I would like to see more characters from the MK11 Franchise rather than guest characters, although I like seeing guest characters, I think they can also detract from the actual MK franchise it's like putting MK characters into Injustice games, two franchises colliding and devouring attention from one another.

I've chosen four MK characters and two guest characters.

These are:


MILEENA


By popular demand, fans are begging Ed Boon and Netherealm studios to put Mileena into the game. I would like to see her make an appearance in MK11, I think her fighting techniques are really slick and she can certainly do a considerable amount of damage with her combos and special moves.

TAKEDA


A question that I ask myself is where is Takeda and Kung Jin in the MK11 story and where do they fit into the timeline? Kenshi was missing too, what happened to him? But this is what makes DLC so good, it allows characters that weren't included in the main roster to be given a wild card and an opportunity to appear in the game as DLC.

Takeda is mentioned in various intro dialogues and we see him at the end of some characters character stories at the end of character towers challenge. It feel the game is missing a trick by not including Takeda as I think his speed and verity of fighting techniques make him an ideal character to include in the roster.

I always enjoyed playing him in MKX, and just feel like he's missing from the roster and needs to be included. If I was presented with a choice between Takeda and Kung Jin, I would choose Takeda.


TREMOR


I am being deprived of one of my favourite characters from MKX being in MK11. I miss Tremor, and I wish he were in MK11, if only to complete a Black Dragon group of him, Kano, and Kabal. And I have come across some concept art of Tremor online and on social media. possible hint that Tremor is in Kombat Pack 2? I would love it to be true.


SHEEVA


The more female characters in the game, the better. I feel that with MK and Injustice games there are much more choice in male characters than female ones. There isn't an equal balance of the sexes, with male characters dominating most of the roster. Sheeva would be a valuable and welcome addition for me if she was to be added. As a Shokan, she has four arms and I'd imagine she'd have a similar fighting to Goro, if that's the case she could do an incredible amount of damage.


Now we move on to my two guest characters.

THANOS


This is most likely DEFINITELY NOT  going to happen due to the fact that Netherrealm does cross overs with DC characters and probably the rights Disney would charge to use Thanos in the game would be too expensive. But, you must admit that all being said and considered would Thanos be a good character to be in Mortal Kombat 11? I think he would. He has a good fighting ability and would probably come with some nice accessaries. Coming from such a big movie franchise like MARVEL would raise the stakes higher and possibly introduce more new players to the game. It's an idea.


NEGAN From The Walking Dead


I've asked for this character to be in MKX and now I'm asking for him to be released in MK11, he would be so good to include right? And I think the custom variations to his bat and costume would look insane. Would be interested to see how creative they could get with his fighting technique, fatalities and brutalities.

Those are just my suggestions, if you don't like them feel free to say so, if you agree me, feel free to say so. All will be revealed when Kombat Pack 2 gets revealed in full I'm sure.

Tuesday, 10 March 2020

COMING SOON: Doctor Who Audio Adventures Series 4 - Blasts from the Past Including: Ice Warriors, Daleks, and Cybermen










COMING SOON: DOCTOR WHO AUDIO ADVENTURES - SERIES 4
BLASTS FROM THE PAST 
INCLUDING ICE WARRIORS, DALEKS, AND CYBERMEN


Yes, it's no hidden secret that the next series of Doctor Who Audio Adventures will see the Doctor come face to face with some old foes he has previously encountered on his travels and has stopped on timeless occasions. 

It's really exciting to be doing an Ice Warrior story, bring back the Daleks, and having the Cybermen in the series. Three of my favourite monsters in Doctor Who.

In Series 4 of Audio Adventures, the Doctor will be trying to stop humanity and  the Ice Warriors from starting a nuclear war, doing a deal with the Daleks, and witnessing the resurrection of a new race of Cybermen. 

DOCTOR WHO & THE ICE WARRIORS - DEEP FREEZE

When a snowstorm causes the TARDIS to crash land in the snowy mountains of Northern Canada, the Doctor, Pip and Kara find themselves stuck in the snow with no means of escape and are sure to freeze to death if they don't find help, fortunately, they are rescued by Captain Walton and his crew from the FLOSD (Frost line outer space defense) The Frost Line Outer Space Defense system is a network of missile complexes stretching three thousand miles across Nothern Canada. 

They are dedicated to protecting the earth against extraterrestrial threats. What they didn't count on, however, were a small group of Viking like warriors buried underneath the ice, Ice Warriors. Who take control of the system with the intention of destroying major frost line bases. General Ward, the bad-tempered frost line commander is planning to aim missiles on Mars should the Ice Warriors attack Earth, can the Doctor resolve conflict before there is a blood bath?  


DOCTOR WHO & THE DALEKS - GENERATION OF THE DALEKS


Shortly after arriving in London 2020, the TARDIS is loaded onto a lorry and stolen. The Doctor, Kara, and Pip are forced into following a trail of clues, which in turn lead them to an antique shop, and then lead into a trap by one of the Doctor's oldest and deadliest adversaries. 


DOCTOR WHO & THE CYBERMEN - STILL HUMAN


The Doctor is continuing working on his pet project, Rodney, a robot who breaks down and so the only way to fix him is to go to the planet of Trade World where the robot parts the Doctor needs are manufactured.  When they arrive on Trade World they discover that the planet is run by the International Cybernetics company, all of which is the doing of Mr. Paul Rankin, a professor who specializes in the rights of robotics and cybernetics and is perfecting on his newest experiment, and developing human upgrades, but when his experiment goes horribly wrong the Doctor steps in to help. Little does he know he is assisting to resurrect one of his oldest and deadliest foes.

Stay tuned for more information, and we will see you soon for any further updates. 

Monday, 9 March 2020

COMING SOON: Doctor Who The Audio Adventures - Amelia Earhart - Historical Story










COMING SOON: DOCTOR WHO - THE AUDIO ADVENTURES - SERIES 4
FAMOUS FACES: AMELIA EARHART TO FEATURE IN SERIES 4 HISTORICAL STORY


Hello all.

I've been a little quiet about this as I didn't want to confirm anything until details had been finalised, but I am happy to say plans are going ahead to produce stories for my Doctor Who audio series which involve the Doctor and friends meeting a famous face of history.

During the new series this has been a common thing, involving the Doctor meeting many famous people throughout history including: Charles Dickens, Queen Victoria, William Shakespeare, Agatha Christie, Vincent Van Gogh, Rosa Parks, and Nikola Tesla. 

This is something that I have never touched upon or approached and have had regrets not doing it sooner, however, I never really felt there was a good enough story I could tell to do the famous historical person in question justice. However, with the standard of stories being so high this series and episodes like 'Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror' and 'The Haunting of Villa Diodati' coming out on top, I thought well, why not? Let's try it.

I've picked a person whom you may not be too aware off in regards to who she is or what she did, but it's Amelia Earhart 

Amelia Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and author, she was the first female aviator to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many records, wrote best selling books about her flying experiences, and proved to be instrumental in the formation of the Ninety-Nines an organisation of female pilots. Earhart mysteriously disappeared on her flight over the central Pacific Ocean, near Howland Island on the 2nd of July 1937. No one knows what happened to her or her plane. So I figured what a nice mystery this will make for a Doctor Who story, I'm surprised it's a story that's not been touched on before.

It will interesting to explore her background further and do the necessary research that's needed in order to understand her and her story, who she was about and the foundations of that research will develop into the story. 

Not much is being developed on this story as of yet, but it will certainly make an interesting one to spice up the series. 

Scripts are underway and more information of Doctor Who Audio Adventures will be revealed once scripts are completed. 

Sunday, 8 March 2020

Coming Up on The Sunday Showcase


Coming Up On The Sunday Showcase With Dan Bury

Episode:  5/24 
Broadcast Date: Sunday 15th March 2020
Time: 2pm - 4pm 
Week 10: Monday 9th - Sunday 15th March 2020
Published: Sunday 8th March 2020

Exciting guests booked for the showcase this week.

Tracy Ross and Melanie Wall pop in to discuss their event Fade to Black while theatre producer David Jenkins and choreographer Joanna Hughes come on to chat about Brilliant Theatre Arts latest production of Our House. 

Plus Tips for Monday, Sunday Shoutouts, What's Going On In St Albans? and much more...

The fun, pacy, upbeat chat show continues next Sunday afternoon on Radio Verulam and on 92.6FM 

Daniel Bury hosts. 

Wednesday, 4 March 2020

Revolution of the Daleks


REVOLUTION OF THE DALEKS

Hello all, 

Since the series finale of Doctor Who aired, it was revealed that Doctor Who would return in a special called "Revolution of the Daleks".

Back in 2012, I produced a Sixth Doctor story with this title.

During this week I have been receiving interesting messages from people who have come across my videos on YouTube who claim that I have predicted the title of the Doctor Who special, when what it actually is is a coincidence. It's nice for people to say such things, but I haven't predicted a title for a future Doctor Who story, it's just a sheer coincidence that this has happened, plain and simple.

Mind you, Chris Chibnall could have come across my story and thought 'That's a good title' shame he didn't email me and ask me to write an episode for the next series... that's a missed opportunity.


If you so happen want to watch my action figure adventure from 2012, click here!

Monday, 2 March 2020

Doctor Who Review - Series 12 Episode 10 - The Timeless Children







Hello and welcome to another Doctor Who review, where this week I’m reviewing the last installment of Series Twelve, the series finale The Timeless Children. 

“Everything you knew was a lie.” Bold words, all things considered. After a series of standalone adventures in the Thirteenth Doctor’s first year, we’ve already spent much of season 12 watching Chris Chibnall and his creative team circling the show’s long history, tugging on threads that have always weaved decades of canon together… well, mostly.

That’s the thing about Doctor Who – it is, at its heart, a show about a quirky alien in a blue box who has adventures in time and space. The Doctor’s inspired Shakespeare, started the great fire of London, uncovered the mystery of the Loch Ness Monster, and has saved earth countless times from the threat of alien invasion. For a program handed across generations of writers, producers, and directors that has time-travel at its very heart, it’s amazing that the show hasn’t contradicted or flat-out rewritten itself more often. 

Doctor Who has always been about Nostalgia and constant changes, it's one of those rare instances where it has the ability to be whatever show it wants, it can be a soap opera one minute, then its a compelling drama, then it's a comedy. It has all of these aspects and elements to it that makes it unlike any other television show there's ever been.

That said, when a head writer makes the decision that the two-part finale is going to be all about disrupting that lore – when you’re banking that there are people who care about Gallifrey, and the Time Lords, and rules of regeneration dreamed up half a century ago – you are the one making the canon important. You’re agreeing that it matters, that it’s worth being invested in and having internet arguments about. Whatever changes you make not only should you have to respect for what has came before, the changes themselves also have to fuel an interesting story.

All of which is well and good, but it doesn’t answer the burning question: did “The Timeless Children” fundamentally change Doctor Who forever? That answer, without spoilers, is: No, not really. You could argue that other episodes in Series 12 did most of the heavy lifting when it came to shaking up the continuity and last night's finale spends a lot of time reflecting on those events. There are a lot of callbacks, both in-universe but also to themes, and even lines of dialogue from series  penned by Chibnall’s predecessors.


First thing to mention about this episode are The Cybermen, Ashad reveals his intentions are to upgrade the Cybermen into fully mechanical creatures that will go on to rid the universe of all organic life, and the Master quite rightly calls this plan a load of utter rubbish. In last week's episode, the Cybermen seemed to be lacking a clear focus that made them engaging to watch in action, and this dialogue basically confirms it.

We never find out why Ashad was making that one Cyberman scream, either, and now we never will because the Master zaps him with the Tissue Compression Eliminator. 

It’s also a moment that exposes Chibnall’s tendency to under develop his villains when he knows the story is eventually going to shift focus away from them. It happened with Daniel Barton and the Kasavin in “Spyfall” once the Master showed up, and it happens again to the Cybermen in this story. 

After Ashad dies the rest of his Cyber Warriors spend the rest of the episode in a sort of holding pattern, all-but-vanishing from the plot while they wait for the good guys to come back and blow them up. It's a real shame because the Cybermen are a great monster and they deserve so much better. I haven't liked any Cybermen stories since their return in 2006 and the reason is because that they are written so weak. There hasn't really been a decent Cyberman story since Earth Shock. Just a shame is all I have to say on that matter.

The second point to talk about is The Master. I don't know what to make of Sacha Dhawan's performance. It's bewildering at times, it's almost like he's trying to mimic John Simm's crazy mad man interpretation. There are moments of his performance which are effective like when he zaps Ashad with the Tissue Compression Eliminator, far more vicious than the gloating Masters of time gone by, as Dhawan’s regeneration has proven himself to be. But then I'm also not quite sure of what to make of his performance or what he's trying to achieve with it, I don't know it's just all over the place. 


The major part of the episode to point out and discuss is the moment where the Doctor has been plugged into the Matrix and forced to confront the Great Big Lie of the Time Lords. The Time Lord ability to regenerate stems from a single, immortal alien known as the Timeless Child, and that child is revealed to be the Doctor. (no surprise there, even I could see that one coming) Moreover, it seems that many of the Doctor’s earlier regenerations involved working for some form of Gallifreyan secret service before effectively undergoing a factory reset at the end of her tenure.

Let’s break this down, because it’s really two revelations and they’re only loosely connected. The first half hour of this episode is essentially Get to know Gallifrey, as the Master talks the Doctor and anyone in the audience not up to date on their Time Lord history through some of the basics – the Citadel, the Panopticon, the Matrix. What we don’t hear is one important name: Rassilon, who we’ve always been told was the founder of the Time Lords and invented regeneration. Here, that honour goes to Tecteun, effectively the Doctor’s foster mother.

The Master vaguely alludes to the Time Lords making up a suitably grand origin story after the fact, but I’m forced to wonder – why not simply have Rassilon find The Timeless Child? The twist here is not that someone invented regeneration, we’ve always known that, but that the Doctor herself is the blueprint for the process and has had many, many other lives as a result. That’s huge news for her, of course, but why keep the specifics of a “Timeless Child” aiding in the discovery of regeneration so secret? A single line of dialogue explaining how and why Rassilon replaced Tecteun in the history books would have been all that was needed, and the total omission of his character from this new canon is really quite baffling.

The second reveal is that at some point during her past, the Doctor joined up with a Time Lord agency known as ‘The Division’ that violated their world’s normal rules of non-interference. The “Brendan” cutaways we saw in Ascension of the Cybermen were actually a kind of filter placed over the information to disguise the Doctor’s service and eventual memory wipe, ensuring it wouldn’t be purged from the Matrix.

This is apparently news to the Doctor, but clues were laid out fairly explicitly in Fugitive of the Judoon, where Gat stated that she used to be Ruth’s commanding officer. Fans have had over a month to get used to the idea that Hartnell might not have been the ‘first’ Doctor, so this comes across as clarification rather than a huge mind-blowing shock. Plus, as the Doctor points out, the new knowledge does nothing to change the person she is today.

What’s weird here is that Gallifrey already has its Celestial Intervention Agency, a secret service designed to covertly interfere in other worlds’ affairs, and yet they don't get mentioned, why not?. So much of what we learn in this episode comes from ignoring established continuity only to replace it with things that are basically the same – The Division instead of the CIA, Tecteun instead of Rassilon. These feel like changes for change’s sake, rather than being necessary alterations to canon so that the story of the Timeless Child can make sense.

So, in summery this episode is Chibnall basically reinventing parts of Doctor Who's cannon to suit his needs, under use Cybermen and add more to the origin story and the mystery of the show we have only guessed at and made up our own theories about. At least it makes all the Morbius Doctor's cannon and that part of the show make sense at least. 

Had the Ruth Doctor made her debut during this story, we’d all have been left reeling from the surprise. Instead, we’re left acknowledging a belated explanation.

The joy of knowing this now though is that the Doctor as a character has the ability to go on forever, which is fantastic.

I will give this finale an 8/10! The series ended on a fabulous cliffhanger.

It’s rather a pity now that this series has finished. I rather enjoyed tuning into a new episode each week. I look forward to the special with the Daleks later in the year. 
On the whole this series has been really great. A massive improvement from Series 11. With some episodes I have watched more than once shortly after their original air date. Something which I haven’t done that since 2008 with Series 4. A strong series on the whole and I'm very pleased for it.