I do believe in climate change and its imminent dangers to the future of humanity and the world, but this episode found the clumsiest and most blatant way ever to adress that topic.
At this point, I really feel sorry for Jodie and the companions, the writing is really making her look bad when she clearly has the potential to be amazing.
The writing has been very uneven since the beginning of this doctor, but this steaming pile of garbage really takes the cake. It contradict quite a bit of new who history, the plot is just beyond stupid, and then trying to use the sledgehammer to drive the message home, and failing at it anyway.
It's not that the topic of climate change is bad, but in this particular series with its time travel and general acceptance of weird and spontaneous rules, there are so many better ways of doing a story about that than "earth is fucked now, because nobody did anything. Also, random monster for scary factor."
No show runner really had consistently good episodes, but the current one makes me even look back on the Rüssel T Davis era much more fondly.
An episode so profoundly derivative, trope-ridden, and obvious that it makes me long for the days of Steven Moffatt.
I honestly struggle to see how this made it to air without someone stopping it. Awful writing (that contradicts existing Who), awful acting from some (BENNI!), a message so heavy-handed it's annoyed even the people who agree with it and don't even get me started on the 'cat' person.
Potentially one of the strangest episodes of Doctor Who ever. I genuinely laughed a lot during the first 10 minutes. Then my enjoyment turned more and more towards... perplexity.