That was shockingly good.
After the trailer last week I
was sure that this episode was going to be filler, with the Doctor turning up,
saying the standard dialogue and leaving at the end with everyone loving him.
But no, it was different
enough from that normal model, to be pretty awesome.
I really liked the way that
the Doctor was effectively a secondary character for the first part of the
episode. Such a move causes the audience to be anxious to see the main
character or find out what’s happened to him. The reveal of what’s happened to
him is also visually shocking and very effective.
The only other time that this
has been done in this manner was in “The Last of The Time Lords” and I’d say it’s
more effective here, given that make-up is used in favour of special effects.
There’s plenty of light comedy
as well; the Doctor snogs a lesbian and there’s falling sequence based
entirely
on reactions, to give two examples.
The Clara mystery continues,
with the suggestion that the Doctor may have been trying to bring Clara into
contact with Clara Oswin Oswald from “The Snowmen.”
The Bad stuff.
The kids at the end “give us a
go in the time machine or we’ll tell dad that you’re a time traveller”…and then
dad will just assume that you’re lying. Not really effective threat, but hey, suppose if there’s place for
them in the next episode, there had to be some way of getting them in.
The Doctor snogging someone is
quite severely out of character, given his childish shyness around the issue of
romance and women.
But overall a good episode.
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