Made me giggle when they advertised a River Song book over the credits. Because there’s naff all from this era to sell.
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Made me giggle when they advertised a River Song book over the credits. Because there’s naff all from this era to sell.
Are you so forgetful you can't remember all the other times that argument's been made over the course of at least seventeen years?
What does spending years apart have to do with anything? Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
I actually liked a Chibbers script! I think the starting point was guest actors who knew how to deliver a funny line. And the Daleks were very sarky, very gobby! Pleasantly surprised. Where was this stuff before?
To go a little further, it has classic running-down-corridors stuff, a defiant Doctor, a ticking clock, good guests, and the time travel trope that there is never enough time. Yes, the 'logic' doesn't stand up too well, but I found this a lot more fun than most of his stuff.
PS: Thasmin?! Yaztor!
To go a little further, it has classic running-down-corridors stuff, a defiant Doctor, a ticking clock, good guests, and the time travel trope that there is never enough time. Yes, the 'logic' doesn't stand up too well, but I found this a lot more fun than most of his stuff.
Because arrogance. These Daleks had 'tood in buckets.
PS: Thasmin?! Yaztor!
It just annoys me because not only was it so recent in the show's history, but it's a pointless addition to the script. Who's going to be watching this special who doesn't know what a Dalek is?
Except that right after reuniting, the Doctor keeps Yaz at a distance and doesn't really confide in her.
I guess I just really hated that time jump. Yaz, Dan, and Jericho all spent four years traveling together. They should have been as tight of a group as any Doctor/Companion team. And yet Jericho dies and no one sheds a tear.
The problem for the Yaz and Thirteen for me is the opposite I normally have for Doctor/Companion relationships. Yaz although a poorly drawn thin character of no real merit seems too mature for the almost child like thirteen.
I am sort of wondering if CC is going to do a swerve in that Yaz leaves because the Doctor isn't actually interested in her that way.
I am sort of wondering if CC is going to do a swerve in that Yaz leaves because the Doctor isn't actually interested in her that way.
Erm, it was a pretty good episode. I don't have much else to say. Nothing amazing. Not a great time loop episode in the history of sci-fi but still clever with the countdown aspect. Daleks with spinning guns seem to detract from how deadly their weapons are already. All in all, my feelings are "yeah, this was a pandemic episode. But a good one".
Don’t forget it meant they couldn’t hit a mass of people running down a corridor. In a storage facility. As opposed to the one in ‘Dalek’ that annihilated an underground military facility in moments.
Honestly, I didn't even think about that until you mentioned. The set-up of the episode was good enough that it didn't stand out. It helps that I love small, intimate episodes so that kind of situation doesn't even stand out to me.
Thinking about it - Nick's story makes no sense - he's too shy to speak to someone for a date but he's having so many one night stands and short relationships he needs a storage unit to put stuff in.
Guy is a serial killer and maybe working for evil Dan.
Guy is a serial killer and maybe working for evil Dan.
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So, a Groundhog Day plot. Never been keen on those, and this was no exception. Not awful, just boring. The most interesting thing about it was Yaz admitting to herself how she feels about The Doctor, which has been teased for far too long. Mandip Gill was great, she really sold it. But as a special, this one fell flat for me.
And yet not even a passing mention. At the least Nick should have been wearing a mask when he entered the reception area. Though maybe serial killers are exempt? They could have debated whether they needed masks if they were going to die anyway. Sarah could have made some remark about how much worse can this year get.
For that matter, no comment on getting repeatedly exTERminated. That looks a bloody painful way to die but hey! Let's go and keep getting killed! What fun!
It's fairly common for people to be able to be charming and personable but still fall to bits when in the presence of someone they are genuinely interested in.
It's a fair point but it would be easier to sell if the actor cast gave a performance a bit more nuance than a turnip.
I thought the cabbie at the end had one pulled down around his chin in the first wide shot of the couple meeting the car at the airport, but I just checked, and it was actually the shadow from his rearview mirror.
Geoff lived in there, stored gas and fireworks, and has either been killed or naffed off. And nicks Monopoly is a very old copy. So, you know, he’s probably being predicted by someone to be the master or some shit.
That would be empowering for Yaz, which I like. It could be a standout moment for an otherwise flat character. However, it would be kind of a shitty way to end this era. Yaz dumps the Doctor. Given the Doctor's childish behavior about this at the end of this special, she'd probably be glad to see Yaz go.
But, even if the Doctor grows from it, she's regenerating anyway so there's not much meaning to it. It loses its punch because this Doctor won't have to deal with it for long.
I suspect that there will be a heart-to-heart conversation at some point. The Doctor will say that she keeps a distance because all companions leave (dead or alive) and it's too painful.
Supposedly some production scoop
Source?
Makes sense if true.
Makes sense if true.