Seriously, is it wrong for me to fervently wish the kids had been killed by Cybermen? At least the girl. If not for them, this would have been my fav episode of this series. Warwick Davis was awesome. However, I don’t buy that Clara asked about being the impossible girl and then never brings it up again.
I am seriously dreading the next episode. River Song. AGAIN? I swear that if Clara turns out to be connected to River Song in any way, shape, or form, I will gladly pay someone to smack Moffat’s smarmy face silly. That story line is played out. But apparently, he can’t let his pet creation rest in peace. On the plus side, we get to see The Great Intelligence again.
As for the first question and the Doctor’s name, I thought that whole plot line was ridiculous from the start. I hope it won’t be a disappointment, but as you may have noticed, I’ve little to no faith in Moffat to deliver.
Yeah, the kids were horrible. And the whole episode was filled with things that would have been interesting if properly developed. Instead it felt cluttered, disjointed and pointless. Bleh.
This was the worst Doctor Who episode of the half-season, and that’s saying something. I blame the direction, the editing, the severe truncation of the script for time. It was all over the place with no sense of place, no sense of pacing, no satisfying explanation of anything or anyone. A complete disastrous mess.
I honestly have no interest in who Clara is, or what the Doctor’s name is, or any of the big mysteries Moffat has set up this time around.
I actually quite enjoyed it. A bit silly. The kids were barely there but enough to identify this as one more for the kids than the Dads shall we say; the fun was Mr. Clever, and the Punishment platoon.
It made Clara do something for a damn change. She took charge and had agency and did a jolly good job of it.
It legitimately creeped me out and made me nervous.
I thought it hit the right high notes, but I did want to throw the daughter out an airlock. Any airlock. Unless I missed something, the kids had no point.
And I concur: if Clara is somehow related to River (which seems inevitable at this point), I am never going to stop rolling my eyes. I realize I’m supposed to like her. I should like her: she has all the qualities of a character I should like. And yet I don’t.
I don’t think Clara has anything to do with River. I think…
…she’s a trap set by the Great Intelligence. He created the perfect companion, based on the design of the original Clara from the Snowmen episode, who appears throughout time for the Doctor to eventually discover and bring on his adventures, where she’ll eventually lead him to his doom. Or so the Intelligence hopes.
why she’s such a perfect, perfect, PERFECT companion. I mean really. Too perfect to be human. Rose could be stupid and whiny, Martha actually fell for him and couldn’t separate that from everything else, and Donna shouted at the world till she got her way. Amy couldn’t handle feelings very well and could be quite selfish and unpleasant, Jack gives the Doctor a headache, and Rory really isn’t in to that whole time and space travel thing as much as everyone else.
Clara, meanwhile, has not one human flaw. She does wander off, but come on: the Doctor likes that. She obeys him almost unquestioningly, and she rarely calls him on his BS. She flirts with him but doesn’t follow through or expect him to. Sweet, bright, clever, efficient, effective, perfect.
I think she is the young girl (CAL) from the library.
She looks similar.
The doctor met river song in the library.
Riversong said the doctor’s name in the library.
Clara is similar to the name CAL
They both exist across different time periods
Clara and CAL have both created their own reality.
It was an interesting twist that Porridge turned out to be the Emperor, but like some of you guys, I really didn’t care for the children, and I sort of figured Neil Gaiman could do a hell of a lot better than this, especially after The Doctor’s Wife, which was bloody excellent.
I liked this episode, although I hated the children (the girl, at least. The boy wasn’t bad). I’ve grown to really like Clara as a companion. I do wish they explained why she’s such a good commander, but I liked that side of her.
Matt Smith made an excellent baddie, much better at being Mr Clever than playing the Doctor. The girl’s phone is infected with cybermites, and on its way to Earth, right?
I loved Porridge being the Emperor. I’d have married him. But I didn’t quite buy the “running off to hang out with normal people” speech when only one person seemed to know he was on the amusement park planet.
But I didn’t quite buy the “running off to hang out with normal people” speech when only one person seemed to know he was on the amusement park planet.