Slow started but not at all
bad.
This was a good episode, which
managed to breathe life back into a villain that (like the Daleks) had been
rather destroyed by the Tenth Doctor era. Ever since the series 2 finale, I
haven’t been able to take them seriously. Watching them clunk around at the
slowest possible speed just got to be a bit comical in the end.
These new Cybermen (THAT IN NO
WAY RESEMBLE MARVEL’S IRON MAN) make sense. Why would a race that want to
destroy or convert all other life in the universe, be content to move around
everywhere at two and half miles an hour. It’s refreshing to have them visibly
overcoming such design flaws.
The other aspect of this
episode is of course, seeing how the Doctor handles an evil version of himself.
Matt Smith does a good job with what he’s given, but the cybercontorller is so
similar to the Doctor, that the audience can find it difficult to figure out
which one’s talking.
But the scenes with the Doctor
facing off against this version of himself are very good and seem to pick up
the Valyard theme that’s been subtly running through this series.
Ok, some bad things. Kids - no, just no, I did not look this programme
up on iplayer to watch a stroppy girl shout at Jenna-Louise Colman. Keep it in
the soap operas. Further to that, it seems a bit at the convenience of the plot
for this character to be all “she’s not our mother” just in time to get both of
them kidnapped. This aspect of the relationship was not set up in any way prior
to this episode, so it’s just a bit contrived.
Warwick Davis being the Emperor
is a bit obvious, which means the
conclusion of the episode becomes quite predictable, but this can be
forgiven, as well…he’s Warwick Davis!!
Nothing left to say. It
started slowly, but was very watchable. No more stroppy kids please and I look
forward to The Name of The Doctor.
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