Well that was awesome…right up
until it became Doctor Who…
So this wasn’t a bad episode
by any stretch of the imagination, but the central problem with it is that it starts with a kind of creepy, scary atmosphere that completely evaporates as
soon as the Doctor figures out what’s going on.
There is a measurable point in
the episode when you can say “ok, the scary stuff’s over now”. This jumping in
tones doesn’t destroy the episode, but it does definitely have an irritating
effect, in the way that it goes so quickly from dark to light.
Also, I have absolutely no
love for the reveal at the end. It wasn’t a bad guy it was just trying to find
it’s wife. While this kind of ending does serve to deliver a message of not
judging things on first appearance, it does beg the question of why the alien
THAT IN NO WAY RESEMBLES ANYTHING FROM THE EVIL DEAD didn’t attempt some form
of communication rather than chasing people round a pocket universe. It’s like
Sirius Black from the Harry Potter series
- why don’t you just tell a couple people about your motives instead of
acting like a villain all the time?
Moving on, I liked the
interaction between the TARDIS and Clara. It clearly doesn’t like her for some
reason. It also shows her herself (in the form of it’s visual interaction
hologram) as the only person it could find in the universe who she could
empathise with. Is it being catty, or it is showing another version of her that
it’s found in history?
But she does manage to
convince the TARDIS to enter the pocket universe, risking it’s own life twice…I
mean I assume she convinced it the second time, as they seem to have reused
exactly the same footage for it. Does the budgeting oversight guy from the BBC
sit in on the filming and editing?
Overall, a good episode that
could have been better had the original atmosphere been maintained throughout.
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