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Doctor Who 9.04
Part two of the unexpected two parter.
Which was entertaining in itself, but once it was over, I thought that Toby Whithouse could have put all of this in a single episode without a problem. Mind you, extending it to two made it feel Old School - that's always the reason for chase scenes in floors.
As I had speculated last week, the Doctor, not the Fisher King, was the one in the suspended animation capsule, and the ghostly Doctor a projection by the living one, though it being nothing more than a holographic projection felt a bit of a let down until I considered that the Clara hologramm last week had set it up, fair and square.
The fake Russian village in Scotland made me immediately think "nuclear test site" and wonder when the bomb would go off, but that's me having been an impressionable teenager in the 80s with the very real fear of the bomb.
Clara getting asked whether life with the Doctor made her more callous with other people's lives and she said it taught her to do what needed to be done picked up a theme from last season again. It's noticable she did wonder last season, but this season not anymore, which in turn mirrors the Doctor not asking the "am I a good man?" question anymore, since last season's finale with Missy let him arrive at a self definition which was neither good or bad but "an idiot with a box", telling stories and trying to help.
He tells a story here at the start and ending, too, which basically sums up the two parters central McGuffin, and I suspect was Toby Whithouse's pitch to Stephen Moffat. And apparantly the season opener wasn't a fluke - Capaldi can really play guitar! Anyway, it's a cool scene, but I maintain my position: the story around it could have been told in a single episode.
RIP UNIT Specialist O'Donnell. Kass and Lunn getting together at the end was nice but I suspect was mainly there because the ghosts of the team outnumbered the living by then, and it was supposed to the the silver lining. Anyway, I was glad these two characters made it out alive. And I hope this wasn't the last time we've seen a deaf person on DW. In fact, here's my new speculation: maybe the two parter was a two parter because it was a sneaky introduction of something or someone, be it character or concept? (I hope the concept wasn't the surrender planet.)
In conclusion: bring on the Vikings next week!
Which was entertaining in itself, but once it was over, I thought that Toby Whithouse could have put all of this in a single episode without a problem. Mind you, extending it to two made it feel Old School - that's always the reason for chase scenes in floors.
As I had speculated last week, the Doctor, not the Fisher King, was the one in the suspended animation capsule, and the ghostly Doctor a projection by the living one, though it being nothing more than a holographic projection felt a bit of a let down until I considered that the Clara hologramm last week had set it up, fair and square.
The fake Russian village in Scotland made me immediately think "nuclear test site" and wonder when the bomb would go off, but that's me having been an impressionable teenager in the 80s with the very real fear of the bomb.
Clara getting asked whether life with the Doctor made her more callous with other people's lives and she said it taught her to do what needed to be done picked up a theme from last season again. It's noticable she did wonder last season, but this season not anymore, which in turn mirrors the Doctor not asking the "am I a good man?" question anymore, since last season's finale with Missy let him arrive at a self definition which was neither good or bad but "an idiot with a box", telling stories and trying to help.
He tells a story here at the start and ending, too, which basically sums up the two parters central McGuffin, and I suspect was Toby Whithouse's pitch to Stephen Moffat. And apparantly the season opener wasn't a fluke - Capaldi can really play guitar! Anyway, it's a cool scene, but I maintain my position: the story around it could have been told in a single episode.
RIP UNIT Specialist O'Donnell. Kass and Lunn getting together at the end was nice but I suspect was mainly there because the ghosts of the team outnumbered the living by then, and it was supposed to the the silver lining. Anyway, I was glad these two characters made it out alive. And I hope this wasn't the last time we've seen a deaf person on DW. In fact, here's my new speculation: maybe the two parter was a two parter because it was a sneaky introduction of something or someone, be it character or concept? (I hope the concept wasn't the surrender planet.)
In conclusion: bring on the Vikings next week!