Last week, I said "The Caretaker" was my least-favorite Capaldi episode to date, because of that crappy spider-legged goofy-robot. This week, I am forced to revise my opinion, because "Kill the Moon" had a plot so horrifically bad I'm forced to put it in the same category as the Star Trek Voyager episode with the alien race who start out as adults and grow younger as they age. Stupid, crappy, nonsensical concept!
So...the Moon is an egg. It takes hundreds on millions of years to hatch. The Doctor speculates that it may be a "one-of-a-kind" lifeform. (So who laid the egg?) And then it hatches, is born not only already pregnant (following the tribble life-cycle, I see), but so pregnant it's already able to lay its own egg...which is almost as big as the creature's original egg.
*Head explodes from nonsense overload*
I think I'm going to just quietly wait for the crack in the universe from the Matt Smith days to hit this whole episode and make it such that it never happened. Hey, if it can get rid of Cyber-Kings rampaging through Victorian London and Dalek and Cybermen invasions across the entire Earth, maybe it can remove this Moon-Egg idiocy as well.
All griping aside, I'm looking forward to next week's mummy episode. And I'm not convinced we've seen the last of Clara just yet, especially if there's someone behind the scenes making sure she and the Doctor stay together.
Johnathan