I don't know. It wasn't a bad episode, per se. The Cybermen parts were rather plodding, and ultimately the Lone Cyberman was rather anticlimactic. I loved the stuff with the Doctor and the Master, mostly because Sacha Dhawan is so awesome as the Master. He was definitely underutilized this season. The revelations about the Timeless Child and the Doctor I'm mostly ambivalent about. Honestly I don't have any issues with it exactly, though for something that was being touted as "changing everything" in the end it's basically something that spoilers before the season premiered already told us, and that there was evidence of within the show itself since the Judoon episode.
Don't really get how the truth of the Timeless Child was enough to make the Master decide he had to kill all the other Time Lords. Best I can figure out, it was an act of resentment because the Doctor is in fact a special Time Lord and he isn't. Which, granted, as far as motivations for the Master go, that's not the most far-fetched. Though ultimately it was also rather anticlimactic.
Although it held my attention more than many of the more recent episodes, I couldn't help but see it as a greatest hits of all the previous finales. The Doctor, expecting imminent death sends her companions back to Earth telling them to have a great life, like Parting of the Ways. The Master working with Cybermen like the finales of Capaldi's first and third seasons. The Doctor and the Master having a showdown amidst Time Lords (sort of) like TEOT. The Timeless Child and associated mystery was like the Hybrid and associated mystery in Hell Bent (though nowhere near as disappointing). And to top it all off we end with a completely left field cliffhanger to which the Doctor reacts by asking "What?" repeatedly like in Tennant's finales. Though the cliffhanger was a pretty good scene that's definitely got my interest in the Christmas special piqued. Whatever else you say about Chibnall, he can do a damn good cliffhanger.
Are they all dead? Almost certainly not
I suspect the Time Lords likely really are dead, as I get the impression Chibnall likely has as low an opinion of them as RTD (who is quoted as saying he hates the Time Lords) and Moffat (who is implied to hate them in The Writer's Tale). It was for these reasons RTD chose for them to be extinct when he revived the show, and why Moffat chose to keep them extinct until Day of the Doctor. Moffat only revived them there because he couldn't think of anything else that seemed grand enough for an anniversary special, and he has since apologized for reviving them. I'd say with them extinct again, they're likely staying extinct, though I'm sure the Master will be back.
Is every time lord other than the Doctor and the Master an idiot?
Yes. That seems to have been pretty clear throughout all Doctor Who all the way back to the Classic era.
Shouldn't the time lords know what the Master is capable of, since they have access to the future?
As we learned in Hell Bent, the Time Lords are obsessed with a prophecy that says they meet their doom at the hands of a Hybrid to the point they were ignoring the far more tangible threat of every spacefaring race in the universe wanting to annihilate them and focusing only on the "threat" of the Hybrid. With that in mind it is very likely, possible and believable that the Master lined up multiple WMDs pointed at the Capital and the rest of the Time Lords just shrugged it off as "not the Hybrid, nothing to worry about."
Doesn't this "revelation" screw with the continuity of the show?
Continuity has never been a thing in Doctor Who before, why should it be now?
I'm not sure I will be watching anymore until Chibnall and Whitaker are both gone.
Okay. Bye.
