What a shit episode. I’m next to speechless.
The Doctor turns up on
a spaceship, with a hunter stereotype, an Egyptian stereotype and two people
who look like Amy and Rory, but act like who ever the fuck the plot needs them
to be. Oh and Rory’s dad is there too,
but only so he can set up a quite literal deus ex machina in the last five
minutes.
To add to the woefully bad writing by Chris Chibnall, Saul Metzstien
matches the low quality level with some awful directional decisions. if you’re
going to film on the TARDIS set, do it from the side where I can’t see a
shitload of lighting equipment; kinda damages the suspension of disbelief.
Moffatt should have killed the script for this when it was thrown
across his desk (most likely written on the back of a cigarette box or a napkin
for all the care that seems to have gone into refining it).
On top of that, there’s a lack of effort across all departments; for example whoever edited this episode, cut out the first part of the word “Doctor” when Solomon is shouting it at the end, making it impossible to take seriously. Big sinister exotics trader and his last words are “TORRRR”. These are very basic failings.
Amy is in character for a grand total of half a minute and I don’t
know who she’s married to now, but it sure as fuck isn’t Rory ; as this guy is
more like Mickey or Captain Jack, based on what he says and does.
Nefertiti has nothing to do in this episode, other than be a
stereotype and have sex with another supporting
character at the end, who incidentally also has nothing to do, bar shamelessly
rip off Jurassic Park at several points. I actually wonder whether the BBC is
worried about being sued over this.
No more of my time will be taken up by this episode. It was rubbish. It had a terrible script, a director who didn’t even know which way round to film his sets and a complete abuse of the characters and motivations
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