April 30, 20178 yr The Unquiet Dead was a great episode! It's definitely one that I think was better with repeat views. As Iz says, it laid down the foundations for Torchwood as well. All very cleverly planned out.
April 30, 20178 yr Author http://i.imgur.com/sNlToSX.jpg 70 Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS Series 7, Episode 10 Doctor: Eleventh Companion: Clara Oswald This episode saw the TARDIS captured by a salvage ship, after he took off the ship's defences to teach Clara how to fly it. As they're captured, Clara notices a small egg-shaped device roll across the floor. She picks it up and it burns her hand. After they crash, Clara is lost within the TARDIS and the Doctor begins a rescue mission with the three brothers on the salvage ship, one of whom is an android. One of the brothers, Gregor, tries to steal a valuable part of the TARDIS, which sees them trapped in a loop of corridors as the TARDIS protects herself. Clara meanwhile is persued by a deformed looking creature. She believes she ends up in the console room, but in actual fact it's a mind trick from the TARDIS. The Doctor manages to save her from the console room echo, but there is a leakage of time due to the theft incident and they need to reach the Eye of Harmony in order to repair it. Tricky is revealed to not be an android after all, and that it was just a trick played by Gregor and Bram. They are chased by creatures on their way to the Eye of Harmony, and trapped by them. Gregor identifies one as Clara, and the Doctor reveals they are themselves from the future, trying to stop that future from happening. Both remaining brothers transform into a conjoined creature, while the Doctor and Clara face what looks like an uncrossable chasm, when in actual fact it's a safety measure, and when they jump, they reach the engine room. Clara looks at her burnt hand to see a message - "big friendly button". They go back to the point of the disaster to activate the egg-shaped device, or the magnetic beacon, and the Doctor travels through a time rift to give it to his earlier self to prevent the events from ever happening. This is one episode where the "wibbly wobbly timey wimey" thing actually works pretty well I think. It took a couple of watches for me to totally understand what was going on, but the monster action was good and the interaction between the brothers was solid, even if I didn't find most of them all that likeable on their own. It was great to see more of the TARDIS than just the console room too. My one issue is that ultimately, the entire thing is prevented by the press of a button, which is never the strongest conclusion but nevertheless, a good solid episode among a very hit and miss series 7B.
April 30, 20178 yr The Beast Below was a good episode, like the fact that the whale was doing it voluntarily. Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS was nice enough, I don't like the fact that none of the three remember it :( but at least they didn't really die.
April 30, 20178 yr Author http://pusatfilm.club/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/rzyWVBDPRDYREQddDeIPUoVYfqE.jpg 69 The Caretaker Series 8, Episode 6 Doctor: Twelfth Companion: Clara Oswald Also starring: Danny Pink The Caretaker sees the Doctor joining the staff at Clara's school, as, well, the caretaker. He tells Clara that he's seeing to some business but isn't very specific, but after some snooping, Clara finds out that he's trying to deal with a deadly killing machine called the Skovox Blitzer by luring it to the school, before someone else sees it, attacks it and it kills the entire planet. The Doctor later meets Danny, and incorrectly assumes he's a PE teacher as opposed to a maths teacher, although he believes Clara's love interest is another teacher, who bears a striking resemblance to his previous self. Danny, working late, interrupts the Doctor's plan to capture the Skovox Blitzer, and almost gets himself, Clara and the Doctor killed. Clara then has to explain everything to Danny (although at first she tries to lie), and also to the Doctor that it's Danny who she's seeing. The Doctor plans something else for the next night, after parents' evening, although the Skovox Blitzer materialises too early. Clara distracts it and leads it to the Doctor, who gets it to self destruct by accident, leaving Danny to help get it to power down. This is another Moffat era episode where the alien plot feels very much shoehorned in, but that's my only real criticism of this one. The character moments are strong and it's interesting to see how Clara deals with Danny finding out about the Doctor and the life she leads. The Skovox Blitzer is totally naff really though, one of the greatest killing machines of the galaxy? :') Generally though, for what feels a lot like a filler episode, it's very enjoyable.
May 1, 20178 yr Journey... was a great idea but a bit poorly delivered. The Caretaker needed more to it, the threat was just laughable and the episode's purpose was obviously to get Danny to know about the Doctor. As I said though, I really hated the Danny storyline so the episode is just a misfire for me. I really hated the fact the Doctor kept calling him PE, it was SO forced.
May 1, 20178 yr Author Thanks for the comments guys :D it's unlikely I'll find a moment to post more results today so we'll resume tomorrow!
May 2, 20178 yr Author http://i.imgur.com/dQZ3nDD.png 68 The Idiot’s Lantern Series 2, Episode 7 Doctor: Tenth Companion: Rose Tyler The Doctor and Rose land by accident in London 1963, and notice that unusually, most houses seem to have TV antennas, which is unusual for this time. They speak to Mr Magpie who's selling the TVs, and he explains that it's for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. They witness someone being escorted away with a towel over their head, and the Doctor and Rose follow on a moped, but fail to catch up with the vehicle. They speak to the Connolly family - father Eddie, mother Rita and son Tommy. Eddie is quickly revealed to be the "man about the house", shouting Rita or Tommy down if they speak out of turn, but the Doctor and Rose put him in his place. They are introduced to Grandma Connolly who is locked upstairs, with her entire face missing. She is then captured and the Doctor follows them again, while Rose investigates Magpie Electricals again. Rose encounters the Wire, an alien living in an electrical form to escape persecution. It feeds off people's minds, and gains energy so it can regain a physical form, and takes the form of a presenter on the TV screen. Rose's face is consumed, while the Doctor meets with the police. After the Doctor sees Rose's face missing, he angrily confronts Magpie, who leaves him, Detective Inspector Bishop and Tommy at the hands of the Wire, although it only consumes Bishop's face. The Wire transfers itself to a portable device, and Magpie takes it to the Alexandra Palace transmitter, where it will feed off the minds of every person watching the coronation. The Doctor follows them up, capturing the Wire on a Betamax tape and restoring the faces of everyone taken. Rita kicks Eddie out of the house after finding out he reported her mother to the police. This was one of the earliest Who episodes I saw, and I remember being pretty gripped by it at the time. With further rewatches, it hasn't held up quite so well, and feels like a filler episode between the Cyberman and Ood two-parters, but nevertheless I enjoyed the Wire as a villain. Tommy was an excellent supporting character, and I've appreciated the undertones of Eddie's potential domestic abuse more with rewatches as I've grown up, especially as the "I am talking" lines could easily have been played for comedy.
May 2, 20178 yr I love the whole look of that episode, particularly with Rose & the Doctor riding the motorcycle! A fact I later found out is that all the shots are filmed at an angle!
May 2, 20178 yr Author http://images.amcnetworks.com/bbcamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/doctorwho_s06_e01_01-640x360.jpg 67 The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon Series 6, Episodes 1 and 2 Doctor: Eleventh Companion: Amy Pond, Rory Williams, River Song Now for the first two-parter to drop out! The first story of series 6 saw the Doctor sending letters in TARDIS blue envelopes to Amy, Rory and River to meet at Lake Silencio in Utah. The Doctor meets them there, and they enjoy a picnic, before a man appears in the distance and an astronaut comes out of the water. The Doctor walks over to it, and it kills him permanently. The man in the distance is revealed to be Canton Everett Delaware III. He received the fourth envelope, with Amy and Rory getting the second and River the third. He assists them in burning the Doctor's body. They head to a diner, speculating over who received the first envelope, before meeting the Doctor - an earlier version of himself, who has no idea what the others have just seen. Together they head to Washington in 1969, meeting an earlier version of Canton alongside President Nixon, who are both dealing with a series of phone calls from a scared girl. Together they work to locate the girl, while Amy meets a Silent in the toilets, forgetting her encounter as soon as she looked away although she took a photo of it to remember. The Doctor tracks down the location of the girl and he heads there in the TARDIS with River, Amy, Rory and Canton. Rory and River find a TARDIS console room similar to the one we saw in The Lodger, while Amy confesses to the Doctor that she is pregnant. The astronaut appears and Amy shoots it, too soon to realise that the little girl is inside the astronaut costume. Day of the Moon jumps ahead three months, with Amy, Rory and River all being tracked down by Canton and captured alongside the Doctor. In fact, he was helping to reunite them, and together they realise that there are Silents all over the world. The Doctor plants a nanorecorder in everyone's hand, so they can record what they see so they don't forget, and he instructs them to mark on their hands every time they see a Silent. The Doctor alters a command module of the Apollo 11 spacecraft while Amy and Canton visit a nearby orphanage, to find where the girl was taken from. Amy sees a photograph of her and a baby in one of the rooms, and Amy is abducted by the girl and the Silence. River analyses the now-empty spacesuit and deduces that the girl must have incredible strength to have forced her way out of it. Canton speaks to a Silent he shot and captured, recording it saying "[...] you should kill us all on sight". The Doctor uses Amy's nanorecorder to track her down, and they find her in the Silents' TARDIS console. He plays Canton's recording during the moon landing, and the human race turn on the Silence. They save Amy and head for the TARDIS, and the final shot of the episode is the little girl beginning to regenerate. I really quite enjoy part 1 of this episode, it's a little confusing in places but I think it set up a great story with some great characters like Canton. The Silence make for great villains, an excellent concept from Moffat, and they're possibly the closest we've had to an iconic new villain during Moffat's tenure? Sadly, episode 2 ruined it for me, dragging its placing in this reveal down significantly. Instead of answering questions from episode 1, it opted to ask more questions and leave a lot of the audience wondering what on earth was going on. There was a lot happening across both episodes and none of the answers we did get actually felt very well explained, to me at least.
May 2, 20178 yr I loved that episode! Great two-parter, especially with drawing lines every time they see a Silence.
May 2, 20178 yr I actually thought the second part was a lot stronger than the first but I guess it does depend on your view of the whole of Series 6's theme which I actually enjoyed! The visuals for the whole story were amazing! Not only filming in the US but the contstruction of the Oval Office as well as the old children's home. The latter really was the most creepy and spooky the series has seen, matched with the Silence it really was quite a scary episode overall (scary in going out at 7pm on primetime British TV terms of course :P). The Silence are brilliant inventions and it is kind of a shame they were so integral to the overarching plot in that we'll probs never see them again. Also, starting with the death of the Doctor is quite a bold move. I just wish I hadn't heard about it beforehand!
May 2, 20178 yr I'm glad the Silence won't be back (on earth anyway) so as not to overuse the. Like the Ood, they are better as one-offs, just like the Star Wars monks they had.
May 2, 20178 yr The Idiot's Lantern is good but I don't think it has held up well like others have. I agree actually about that two parter episode one was very good and the Silence is near enough Moffat's best creation from his era however the second ep wasn't as good. Felt more complicated
May 3, 20178 yr Author http://images.amcnetworks.com/bbcamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/underthelake-640x360.jpg 66 Under the Lake / Before the Flood Series 9, Episodes 3 and 4 Doctor: Twelfth Companion: Clara Oswald The Doctor and Clara arrive on an underwater base in 2119, where a team of people are being haunted by two ghosts, one of whom was killed just days before the TARDIS arrived. They find the team hiding in the base's Faraday cage, which the ghosts cannot enter. The base switches from night mode to day mode, and the ghosts disappear. The Doctor is intrigued by the ghosts, and plans to capture them in the Faraday cage. When they get trapped, acting commander Cass is able to lip-read what they are mouthing - "the dark, the sword, the forsaken, the temple". The Doctor says these are galactic co-ordinates to somewhere on Earth, and the more ghosts there are, the stronger this signal will become. Furthermore, only those who looked at the glyphs (in what looked like part of an alien ship that is located in the base) can be harmed by the ghosts. The Doctor, Clara and the others head for the TARDIS to investigate, but the ghosts override the system and flood a section of the base, trapping Clara, Cass and Lunn. The Doctor heads off with O'Donnell and Bennett, and the others witness another ghost outside the base, in the water - the Doctor. The events continue in part 2. The Doctor arrives in 1980, before the flood occurred, and meets with the original ghost before his death, a Tivoli known as Prentis, next to the ship that is located on board the underwater base in 2119 - revealed to be a hearse, carrying the dead Fisher King. The writing had not been carved into the wall at this point. Clara sees that the Doctor's ghost is uttering a list of their names, in the order that they will die. The Doctor discovers that the Fisher King isn't actually dead, and it kills Prentis, before carving the writing on the wall. After O'Donnell is killed, the Doctor tries to head back to the future, but the TARDIS won't allow it and instead jumps back half an hour, so he and Bennett have to observe earlier events. In the future, O'Donnell's ghost steals Clara's phone so she can't communicate with the Doctor, but as Lunn hasn't seen the writing, he can't be harmed by the ghosts and goes to retrieve it, getting captured himself. Clara and Cass go out in search of him. The Doctor meets the Fisher King, who says the ghosts are calling to his people, so they can attack Earth. He tricks the Fisher King and captures it, but his own whereabouts is unknown as Bennett is taken back to the future in the TARDIS by the emergency protocols. The Doctor arrives in the future via a stasis chamber they brought on board, and the ghosts become trapped in the Faraday cage again. The Doctor's own ghost was revealed to be nothing more than a projection via the sonic sunglasses from inside the stasis chamber. Unfortunately this is another story where the second half totally ruins the excellent first half. The Fisher King is a total non-threat in the end and the excitement levels just don't hold up, plus it all gets a bit confusing, hence why my summary there is probably the longest one I've written so far, so much important information to cover! :lol: Nevertheless, I quite enjoyed the inclusion of the bootstrap paradox. I really do enjoy the first half anyway, I love how the plot builds up and the ghosts make for really interesting villains, plus it has one of the strongest supporting casts in Moffat's era so far. The little touches like the Doctor's cards so he's polite in difficult situations are great too.
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