Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terrors.
Boring as hell.
Snooze-fest with an entirely unoriginal villain and
incredibly simplified titular character.
According to Doctor Who’s Facebook page, Jodie Whittaker had
fantastic chemistry with Goran Visnjnic…either it was incredibly subtle or the
television industry has recently redefined what ‘chemistry’ means.
Fugitive of the Jadoon
There were the seeds of a good episode in here.
In a rare act of competence, co-writer Chibnall played to
his strengths by starting this episode like Broadchurch (the first series;
before it became rubbish).
The mystery and twist style of the episode actually works
quite well, but the insinuation of the twist is a step too far.
The suggestion that the Ruth-Doctor pre-dates the 13th
Doctor (the common theory being that she pre-dates the 1st Doctor)
is a risk that didn’t need to be taken. Why couldn’t she be a future version;
or a rebooted version of the Valyard?
Other than that, the main issues comes from the return of
Jack Harkness (which reeks of re-shoots given how out of place his scenes are)
and the fact that Whittikar gets out-acted by the guest character yet again.
The fact that that guest character is another version of the Doctor just makes
me wonder if these series would be any better with Jo Martin in the main role.
Praxues
A return to our regularly scheduled ham-fisted messages.
Stop polluting the ocean everyone; or aliens will come here
to experiment on us, with plastic viruses.
Even worse than that, we’ll be inundated with bad actors.
What’s that, your best friend of 5 years has been killed; it should take you a
good three and a half minutes to get over that.
To add to the ham-fisted messages, this episode has possibly
the greatest unintentionally hilarious sacrifice scene ever. We’re supposed to
be feeling the despair of Jake’s husband whilst watching him awkwardly jerk his
head around on monitor.
Yaz has traded in her personality for Clara’s, as the plot
required her to needlessly put herself
in danger.
In fact, the plot is driven by the characters needlessly
doing stupid things.
One character is killed by infected birds after needlessly
staying outside to keep an eye on them. Why would you need to watch them;
you’ve already seen that they’re swarming around?
The Doctor decides to move a critically ill man to a random
lab in Madagascar, so that she can examine him. Except he had just been on
board the Tardis, which we know can scan, medically examine and cure people. It
even has it’s own sick bay and lab. The Doctor even uses that Tardis to make a
cure for the alien virus later on.
Do I even need to mention the absence of show-don’t-tell,
given that Chibnall wrote this one?
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