A "reality war" it is, indeed. Much of episodes 7 and 8 was a war against reality, including the Doctor being called "Doctor Who". ... Sorry, I digress. Personally, I have not considered Ncuti to be a good Doctor, it's all just the wrong personality for him. Maybe some of it was the script, but some if it probably wasn't. (Time Lords aren't human. I wish that the writers wouldn't make them act so human.) We shall see how the new one turns out. I think it can't be much worse anymore.

Although I like that Omega, despite having been described as "the first Time Lord" incorrectly (depending on the canon, that's either the Other or the Timeless Child), has been brought back and I think that the Rani is a more interesting villain than the Master, the whole series 2 had a lot of potentially interesting characters - and all of them were one-dimensional. Flat. Uninspired. (I hope we can agree that Maestro was a good example for that.) Last time we saw Omega, he was a force of nature, banished into the opposite of a universe, only to return as a plot device with no good explanation. Sigh.

I wonder why neither the Rani nor the Doctor seem to remember that Omega has no body to extract DNA from. Plot hole?