Doctor Who season 8, episode 7 just aired and it featured a life and death trip to the moon.

Grumpy Doctor and Clara placate teenager

So, apparently forgetting what he said to Donna Noble about never meeting anyone in the universe who wasn’t important, the Doctor manages to reduce teenager Courtney Woods to tears in the TARDIS by telling her how she was nothing special. To make up for this, once confronted by a perturbed Clara and upset Courtney, the Doctor decides a moon trip is in order.

On a side note, is anyone else wondering why the TARDIS is constantly parked at the school, in plain sight, and no one has noticed? Also, there’s the matter of a teenager pilfering psychic paper, and having unrestricted access to the TARDIS where she is apparently throwing up. Are all security systems in the TARDIS down? Did someone shoot the canon with a cannon? We are confused, but off we go on a space adventure.

Let’s use all the spacesuits

In addition to the constantly recycled orange spacesuits, now the white ones a la River Song’s first appearance are back. This is because it’s a moon expedition in 2049, and we have to tell Team Doctor from Team Annihilation. The long and short of it is that the Earth has been experiencing issues of wanton tides due to unknown mass changes on the moon for the last 10 years. A Mexican mining survey 10 years ago apparently stumbled on some issue, and it’s taken the earth the better part of a decade to get up there, figure out what happened and to deal with the chaos.

Creepy, crawly, creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly…

Space spiders win as the scariest monster this season, even if they were just germs. No matter, one of the white suits gets attacked in no time because exploring the moon and dark caves on his own is such a smart idea. After a more terrifying encounter on the space station, coupled with a spectacular defense with a bottle of Windex, Courtney decides she wants to go home. The Doctor, however, has other ideas. They are staying, but Courtney is stuffed in the TARDIS for safe-keeping.

There goes the green cheese theory

In the end, the moon is actually a giant egg about to hatch, and the spiders are just bacteria. The moral dilemma of the night is whether the baby gets to hatch, possibly killing all life on Earth, or if Earth votes to let the baby live and sees what happens? And just to complicate things further, looking highly pleased with himself, the Doctor is going to leave all the humans, including the underage Courtney, to work this out on their own.

And they all lived

As push comes to shove, Clara and Courtney manage to save the day and save the baby despite the fact that the earth votes kill. Right after, the Doctor swoops in and takes them to the beach on Earth just in time to see the hatching. Fortunately, a replacement moon, A.K.A egg, is deposited, and all is well — almost.

Regardless of the outcome, Clara has now officially had it. What has been brewing all season finally comes to a head, after the Doctor reveals he wasn’t as blind as he earlier suggested. Clara tells the Doctor off for being a know-it-all, self-important, condescending, unfeeling ass. What’s more, it’s evident that her diatribe hits home. She delivers the final blow, telling the Doctor that she is leaving him, essentially because the Time Lord has lost his humanity. She no longer respects him. Danny hears Clara out, but tells her that she may feel differently when she is no longer angry.