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Doctor Who: Mummy on the Orient Express (2014)
At Last!!
This might come as a bit of a surprise considering some of my previous reviews but I really enjoyed this episode. Maybe it was because I was sort of expecting a disaster (come on: orient express in space with mummies?) but I found it pretty good, even up there with some of the great stories.
I am not going to give any plot point away, you will just have to watch it yourself, however I can say it was nice to see the Doctor back being the Doctor for once, OK a dark edgy Doctor which I think is great. Even the little Clara twist at the end I liked (may regret it later) but for now my faith in the series has been restored.
Oh and why 9 and not 10? well some of the CGI of the train was a little suspect, but then slightly suspect CGI is to now as wobbly sets was to the 70s something we whiny about now but will probably look back with fondness in time to come.
Doctor Who: Kill the Moon (2014)
Has she finally gone?
First of the score 6 out of 10 because the first half of this episode was good and in some places genuinely scary and the Doctor was actually allowed to be the Doctor for once rather than a side show to the main story line. However, as is the pattern for this modern Dr Who this careful build up is thrown away in another display of indulgent feminist claptrap.
The current set of writers seem to be very unhappy wring Scifi and seem to aspire to be lead writers for Eastenders or Casualty where they can indulge their own Utopian fantasies of strong woman and the men are rather not needed and can go overboard with a sea of emotions and feelings. You will notice in this story all the men were weak and pathetic and got eaten before we even learnt their names, whilst all the women did that heroic thing of running down corridors whilst the background did fancy explosions. Also got they got back stories so we would feel for them whilst they made their angst decisions.
Anyway I am getting sidetracked slightly and if I carry on people will thing I am completely anti women, I am not, I like women, I like them to have good roles in film and TV . Science fiction in particular is a good opportunity for gender and race to note matter and people are just that people. Good SciFi involves you in the story so much you do not care who plays what part. Unfortunately this is not good SciFi and thus the irritating Oswald thing keeps getting in the way. hence the title of this Ill informed rant .. has she finally gone? I flipping hope so, then no more soup story and get back to the SciFi, But i fear she will be back, the Doctor will humbly say sorry and that he is lonely and .. no sorry can not even bare to think of it.
I am really getting side tracked today, so back to this episode, in summary good scary start back to the Doctor who of old, rubbish rushed ending and many many errors and unanswered questions such as 'How do you recreate a new moon out of nothing in less than a minute?'
Doctor Who: The Caretaker (2014)
The Ozwald saga
Well the ongoing story of Clara Oswald saviour of the universe and all round wonder woman continues. In this episode she tries to have a date with on/off/on boyfriend Mr Pink but keeps getting momentarily interrupted by a cyberman/dalek/spider cross machine. When I say momentary blink and you will miss it, never has a promising monster been so wantonly frittered away just so we can get back to the soup opera love life of Miss Clara flipping Oswald. Also the title Doctor (WHO?) is well deserved here as his part was so irrelevant to the plot you wonder why the writers bothered making a part for him.
If I wanted to watch Eastenders I would watch Eastenders however I do not like that type of show I like to settle down and watch a nice romp through time and space which is not what I am getting recently.
Of course I could be (and normally am) hopelessly wrong about all this and this long winded soup story could be building up to some heart retching finale, we are obviously building up to some kind of story arc finale .. just hope it involves the Doctor in some menial way.
Doctor Who: Listen (2014)
The Clara Oswald show
Giving this 5 out of 10 as the first half of the episode showed a lot of promise with a nicely dark build up. Also loving the new doctor, unpredictable and slightly edgy again with some dark undertones Peter Capaldi has the making to be one of thee best doctors ever.
That is all the good stuff, now for my little rant .. I am beginning to think the doctor has been relegated to being a bit part in his own show. The producers are so determined to make the companion (don't get me wrong Jenna is great) a strong character that they are forgetting the doctor is supposed to be the main element here. In the last few episodes he might as well not bothered getting out of bed for all the actual plot he played out. The shows canon is being rewritten such that Clara is the one that does all the work, thinks of most of the solutions and gets most of the best lines. If she could actually fly the Tardis they can get rid of the doctor altogether and we end up with another spin off - the Clara Oswald show.
Finally, (and this is a spoiler)
The doctor afraid of the dark??? What the flipping flip is that all about?