YMMV / Doctor Who S32 E4 "The Doctor's Wife"

• Broken Base: The first dialogue confirmation that Time Lords can change gender split fandom down the middle between those who feel the Doctor should at some point become a woman and those who feel the Doctor should remain male (in particular by those who support a heterosexual romance between the Doctor and his various female companions). Debate over this has continued ever since the episode aired, only intensifying after the longstanding male adversary the Master regenerated into a female version.
  • And now that the Doctor actually has taken on a female form, the debate has only intensified further.
• Complete Monster: House is a sapient asteroid that has butchered hundreds of Time Lords unlucky enough to land on his surface and stitched their bodies into subservient playthings—also taking over the mind of an Ood to act as a servant—then hijacked the TARDIS for use as a new body, leaving the Doctor behind to die on the collapsing remains of his old body—and condemning its playthings to die without his influence. House then decides to use Amy and Rory as its new toys, forcing them into the labyrinth of the TARDIS corridors, torturing the two of them with nightmarish illusions, and taunting them with its catchphrase: "Why shouldn't I just kill you now?" House is a being that operates solely according to its sadistic principles of amusement and enjoys torturing whoever is unlucky enough to fall into its grasp. Death might be certain, but House makes certain that when the end comes, its victims will wish for death.
• Funny Moments:
  Eleven: She's a woman and she's the TARDIS.
  Amy: Did you wish really hard?
  • Idris has several of these moments:
    Idris: Biting's excellent. It's like kissing, only there's a winner.
    
    Idris: On the tip of my tongue. Tongue! Ooh, I just thought of an excellent new idea about kissing!
• Heartwarming Moments: All the Doctor/TARDIS stuff.
  • Amy has to think of the things that each part of the password represents. For "Delight", she recalls her wedding with Rory.
  • "I always took you were you needed to go!" The TARDIS confirms in one line what some Whovians have suspected for years. But more importantly, she establishes that she and the Doctor have the same heart as well as an adventurous spirit. Just like how he cannot help but involve himself when someone needs his help, she cannot help but send him to the places in need of him.
    Idris: What makes you think I would ever give you back?
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Amy and Rory apparently sleeping on bunkbeds prior to this episode was pretty funny to begin with, and then "A Good Man Goes To War" revealed they spent their wedding night conceiving their daughter on those bunkbeds (or on the ladder according to tweets by Neil Gaiman and Steven Moffat).
  • House would later interact with a different incarnation of the Doctor. Twice.
• Moment of Awesome:
  • The TARDIS laying the smackdown on House; as the Doctor proclaims, House might be the size of a planet, but compared to the TARDIS on her home ground, TARDIS versus House is a Kerb-Stomp Battle and Foregone Conclusion.
  • And on top of that, we get the chillingly cool way in which the Doctor turns House's attempted Badass Boast back on it:
    House: Fear me. I've killed hundreds of Time Lords.
    The Doctor: Fear me. I killed all of them.
• Nightmare Fuel: Okay, let's skip right over whatever it was that was supposedly happening to Rory during those millennia he was trapped alone inside the TARDIS (although the phrase "They come in the night. They come every night and they hurt me," is right up there with the scariest lines in the whole show). What about the cabinet that was absolutely crammed full of recordings of the terrified last cries for help of dozens, maybe hundreds of Time Lords, none of which were ever answered?
  • And if that's not scary enough for you, we have a completely sadistic monster in charge of an infinite maze of corridors he can bend and shape at will and dozens of ways to kills those trapped within.
  • Nephew being Tele Fragged by the TARDIS. "You're breathing him." Dear god.
• One True Pairing: The episode explicitly establishes the Doctor and the TARDIS as this, with Amy addressing this directly.
  Amy: It's always you and her, isn't it, long after the rest of us have gone. A boy and his box, off to see the universe.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: This is one of a few TARDIS-Centric stories in the series where the companions can mill about the spaceship, but the only parts the audience gets to see are the hallways and the Nine/ Ten-era control room, which doesn't give the impression the TARDIS is actually any bigger than what the Doctor describes it as. It would take until Series 7B's Journey To The Centre Of The TARDIS for more rooms to be shown off (including the return of the swimming pool!)
• Tear Jerker: The TARDIS' goodbye — and in-universe to boot.