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In what sense? I feel like its a setup for the Solitrack to become a recurring thing...like Tzim-Sha. I think we can now expect frog symbols to be scattered about in upcoming episodes. (Let's also not forget flesh-eating moths are now a thing.)Yeah, it's a really good kind of bonkers, but the ending is... iffy
In what sense? I feel like its a setup for the Solitrack to become a recurring thing...like Tzim-Sha. I think we can now expect frog symbols to be scattered about in upcoming episodes. (Let's also not forget flesh-eating moths are now a thing.)
I always took it that this Doctor never belittled anyone for making terrible mistakes, even grevious ones, and that the good Doc always tried to see the better side of everyone and get them to turn around. Yes, the father was terrible, but the point was to make them to realize that mistake and actually become a father again. The problem was he could never get past greiving, despite the big red flag being that his wife couldn't come with him through the mirror. Graham's character was used as an analogue to his dillema and both of them accepting their loved ones as gone is what gets them to move on. Also I don't think he was abandoning his kid permanently, just that he was living two lives and regularly crossed the mirror.the father found an alternate dimension with his dead wife in, so he abandoned his blind daughter completely and made up a monster to stop the aforementioned blind daughter from looking for him. Upon forcing the father to return to his daughter, the Doctor is all "lolz isn't this great" and not "you're possibly the worst parent ever". The girl lost her mother, and rather than console her and y'know, be a father, he decided to sod off to another dimension and terrify her and at no point does anyone in the episode perceive this as a problem. Yet again a Twelfth Doctor episode doesn't think through the moral dimension of the story it's trying to tell. Davies or Moffatt certainly would have noticed. It's a general lack of interest in the human element of the story. Hadoukening Universe frog was cool though.
Sleep No More - Okay, another creepy one, with some Aliens influence and a found footage conceit - but then at the last minute takes a swerve into being The Ring. Which is all well and good but it *ended* on that swerve and I thought it was going to be a two-parter but then it wasn't. Is it ever revisited or is 38th-century humanity still facing doom from Sandman infection? (I suppose we could assume the Doctor finished figuring it out a few minutes after the ep ended and turned the Tardis around...)
Face The Raven - Speaking of cliffhangers, I'd wrongly assumed based on looking at writers/directors on wikipedia that all this season's episodes were in pairs, but no, it turns out the ending is basically a three-parter. This left so much dangling that I guess I'll hold off commenting 'til I can watch the next two. Though I will say the (currently apparent) death felt awfully arbitrary. That death curse / quantum being thing sure has a lot of poorly-explained rules it follows, and it was never quite clear how the swap that led to the bad end was really supposed to help anything either.
I see. Is Clara/Jena Coleman in Capaldi's era?Rusty is the Dalek the Doctor and Clara climb around inside of in Into the Dalek.
I see. Is Clara/Jena Coleman in Capaldi's era?
You're really too hard on Chibnall. No wonder we keep revisiting themes about parental issues...Goddamn it Chibnall. You had one job.
1) Impersonating a Nazi soldier was definitely a low even for his standards. I think after the Doc messed with his perception filter, they most likely thought he was an impersonater rather than the outright traitor (i.e. took the form of their own intelligence officer), and put him on an encampment and somehow survived the ordeal. Besides, Moffat gets away with making the 13th Doctor actually like his The Curse of Fatal Death scenario, so Chibnall is just running with his idea...Hey. I'm glad you like them! People don't have to like the same things I do.
For the sake of why I don't:
1) Leaving the Master to the Nazis with a "hey look, brown dude" is a bit... real? It's one thing when it's Daleks, but when it's the first Asian Master and he immediately gets pointed at the Nazi death apparatus? Then it does effectively The Curse Of Fatal Death with him?
2) He's no Missy, is he? I mean, it's fine to not be Missy, but he has none of the threat that she had. He's not as magnetic, his character seems to just be "meh, evil"
3) It made very little sense. The Kasaavin are making us into meat thumb drives! But why? People die and the data is then lost! What is this data that's so important to have such a ridiculous storage method? And what does Barton get from any of this? Also, as per usual, he gets no comeuppance. Again.
4) Mind wipes! Mind wipes everywhere! For no real reason, either.
5) "Good luck" to Noor Inayat Khan seems a horrible way to say leave her as in a year's time she'll be dead in Dachau. Slight pause and "Goodbye" seems better if you're just leaving her to it.
5) After all of the effort to bring Gallifrey back it gets destroyed off screen??? Never mind, I'm sure it will all be worth it...