Following on from last week where The Doctor took troublesome schoolgirl Courtney Woods on a trip in the Tardis that left her vomiting she is left depressed because he told her she wasn't special. Clara is annoyed with him and wants him to tell her she is in fact special; rather than do this he offers to make her the first woman on the Moon. They don't actually end up on the moon though; they end up on a space shuttle that is about to crash land on the Moon! Once there The Doctor notes that something is wrong; the gravity is far too high. It turns out that this is why the mission is going there; not only is the Moon heavier it is starting to come apart threatening the Earth. If that wasn't enough there are large creatures there that are clearly dangerous
and if that wasn't enough it turns out that our understanding of the nature of the Moon is wrong leaving them with a moral dilemma; a dilemma that The Doctor believes must be resolved by humanity alone, without his input.
This was an improvement over the previous instalment; it featured good scary monsters and an interesting dilemma for Clara to worry about. It also leads us to question just how long Clara and The Doctor will travel together as she is clearly unimpressed with his actions. While the story was decent it felt a bit rushed at times; as though they were trying to cram two stories into one. I couldn't really see why Clara was haranguing The Doctor for saying Courtney wasn't special does she think all of her pupils should be considered special; if so she hasn't heard the adage 'if everybody is special then nobody is' besides I thought being called 'special' was considered an insult! Overall though I thought this was an enjoyable enough episode; mostly due to the scary spider-like monsters.
This was an improvement over the previous instalment; it featured good scary monsters and an interesting dilemma for Clara to worry about. It also leads us to question just how long Clara and The Doctor will travel together as she is clearly unimpressed with his actions. While the story was decent it felt a bit rushed at times; as though they were trying to cram two stories into one. I couldn't really see why Clara was haranguing The Doctor for saying Courtney wasn't special does she think all of her pupils should be considered special; if so she hasn't heard the adage 'if everybody is special then nobody is' besides I thought being called 'special' was considered an insult! Overall though I thought this was an enjoyable enough episode; mostly due to the scary spider-like monsters.