Outside of everything, who can you really trust?
Spoilers read your thoughts in this Doctor Who review…
Honestly, Im still not sure what all the fuss was about.
Theneedfor secrecy, I mean.
Get out of here,The Day of the Doctor!Fie on your lack of CGI Eccleston!
This is clearly set aboard the Memory-TARDIS!
That… was not a thing that happened tonight.
Perhaps Scott Handcock (welcome!)
Lets rewind a bit.
The TARDIS is gone, perhaps removed by the reactivation of its Hostile Activation Displacement System.
What isDen of Geekwithout itsDoctor Whoreview?)
Whenever the voice speaks, the physical layout of the ship shifts.
Panels turn, lights flicker, and its all a bitEvent Horizon.
Not a starship, though, for theres an astonishing lack of stars…
The tone of this episode, if were replaying the Tennant/Tate hits, is Midnight.
Its the unknowable, inscrutable aliens who function on blue-and-orange morality, and just like Midnight, theyre copycats.
But by the third-such encounter the conceit is starting to wear thin.
Giant tangled messes of Doctor/Donna parts with inflated features and Brobdingnagian grasping hands dont help.
Midnight might have been right never to show us the monsters.
Just for a moment, that feels like a sickening possibility.
At least he didnt lick her.
The TARDIS makes it back to Earth where surprise AND delight!
There are some janky VFX (stillDoctor Who, then) contrasting some glorious set design.
Murray Golds score is stellar as always.
But its understandable in hindsight!
Viewed through the lens of a 60th Anniversary Special treated with over-the-top secrecy, this doesnt quite work.
Next week:Neil Patrick Harrisplays The Master of the Land of Fiction.
(Look, Ive not heard Toymaker spoken on screen yet.
