So something that sits around
in space just being there is actually a living creature…might have said this
before, but yeah Doctor Who has already done this one. We’re moving from
familiarity to a solid “meh” reaction.
The main difference that Peter
Harness throws is the moral dilemma about whether it’s acceptable to kill such
a creature when it’s hatching/migration threatens to kill all of humanity.
The spiders of the trailer
make a surprisingly small appearance, which could be the product of a limited special
effects budget or that they’re a bit of a red herring. Either way, the lack of
meaningful villains in this series is starting to get to me.
The other story running
through this episode is that of the Doctor and Clara clashing. It’s unusual,
after years of Tennant and Smith (Doctors who had to throw their two cents into
everything) to see the new Doctor sitting on the fence and letting humanity
decide.
The supporting cast isn’t
exactly fleshed out. They seem to be a collection of redshirts and Hermione
Norris’s Lundvik who’s an angry woman with a several bombs.
Clara’s anger (a result of
having enough of the Doctor’s new detached attitude) seems like a significant
development in whether or not she’ll be around next series. Given that she has
a heart-to-heart with Danny after, suggests it’s something that’s been
bothering her for a while. Like Amy and Rory having marital problems, it would
have been better of we’d seen this rather than been told about it after. Danny
saying “it happened, didn’t it” seems a bit stupid. As I have always said, I
like the character development to happen on screen.
Oh and the alien that was
inside Moon/Egg laying another Moon/Egg (thus resolving the problem – and meaning
there was never a threat to start with) is really stupid.
Other than that, this episode
is serviceable and has a few good scares, especially for sufferers of arachnophobia.
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