Old school. Cool. I’m still hoping they rediscover the back-up Edwardian control room from Masque of Mandragora. That was the coolest control room ever.
So, is there some big time difference between US and UK showings? 'Cos the UK showing was a couple of hours ago, and this thread’s practically at the bottom?
Or are you all gobsmacked?
Well… I saw it. I’ll just say: a single episode like this makes up for three episodes with booger-monsters, forests and egg-moons.
Spoiler: His hand’s gotta hurt!
Yes, there’s a significant time difference in the showings. the East Coast of US doesn’t get it until 9pm our time (2am next day in the UK) (can’t speak for Canada) and the West coast three hours later.
No, we’re not gobsmacked other than being fans - this thread is for the whole season.
There’s not that many UK posters, and sometimes we have other stuff to do on a Saturday evening! 
The UK showing finished at 9pm our time, although I watched it on iPlayer a bit later.
Anyway, catching up - I loved it. Some genuinely creepy bits, beautifully shot and acted, and a great premise. I kinda got the bird thing early on because of something I read recently, but damned if I can remember what.
Watching it now.
This…is odd…and kind of cool. Peter Capaldi is an amazing doctor.
Getting ready to watch now 
So…he wrote Bird…in reference to him hitting the wall at the end of each life?
Huh.
I thought he misspelled Hybrid, but apparently not.
I think that was one of the best episodes of Doctor Who ever! Holy crap! That was incredibly dark and disturbing!
The bird was the one who sharpened his beak on the diamond mountain, wearing away just a shade of the mountain for all time. He put in the relentless effort to mark the passage of time, until he broke through.
Gaiman/Pratchett:
And wow. Just…wow
Took me a second, then I flashed on a What-if – Twitter – where Randall Munroe uses the story of the persistent bird to illustrate how long it would take to read every possible Twitter message.
Wow. Will be great to see the Doctor and Gallifrey interacting again.
I am confused and feel stupid. (Not for the for the first nor I am sure for the last time. I am a married man after all.)
Who created his interrogation Hell with its portal to Gallifrey and put him in it and why? Can’t be Gallifreyans as they are all locked away in the pocket universe. Missy? Makes no sense. Does it? Clearly I am missing something obvious. Help!
I was really prepared to not like this episode, because I knew it was a “gimmick”…just the Doctor for almost the entire thing, with no one else. And as I’ve said, I don’t like this Doctor.
But I liked it. Looking forward to next week, now.
The Doctor does ‘Groundhog Day’.
Very well thought out. For a minute I was going to bitch about why someone as smart as the doctor would punch the wall when other thing like brass cuff buttons were there. Then I realized he had to use his hands. Anything but his body would have quickly(in the scope of the episode) worn down to nothing, changed the circumstances of his realization, and jeopardized his plan. But his body came back whole each time, so wearing it down by skin was the the best option.
I just said that to Suburban Plankton!
I am glad Gallifrey is back. I was bored for most of this episode, especially after I figured out the Groundhog Day effect.
Holy fuck, that was best episode since Blink!
I’m eagerly looking forward to where they’re going with this.
I’m right there with you.
Also, I’m wondering… Didn’t the whole interrogation hell close up and be revealed to be inside of his last will and testament disk?
That was amazing and harrowing. I actually froze when I realised the significance of Bird, and just what the Doctor’s plan was. And then the dawning realisation of just whose all the skulls were. His hands, too, when we saw them all bent and crooked: there’ll be a few sleepless children tonight. And I love the reveal of where the castle was contained; it was so unexpected but so satisfying. Astoundingly good work from Moffat; certainly his best since Blink.
From the Doctor’s referral to his prison as Hell - Heaven for bad people, heh - I suspect there may also have been a call-out to James Joyce’s narration of the priest’s description of Hell - during Confession, no less - in Portait of the Artist as a Young Man: