And here we have it. There are some great lines, but the big reveal... is something many people saw coming. Oh, in fact, I'm just thinking about the last bits of the episode and getting so depressed by how prosaic it all is...
I'll admit I didn't see Danny dying, but I should have expected it. And then of course the Doctor and Clara would go after him (with some nice moments from the Doctor), although... why then hasn't the Doctor gone after many other people who have died? Adric, nope, he's dead, but the boyfriend of a companion, he's in there! (And fortunate that Danny was one of the ones uploaded and not like many of the other dead peoples.) I was getting a Of the City of the Saved vibe, but that's ridiculous... this is clearly far more plausible. (Was Doctor Chang uploaded or just annihilated? Seems a waste if just vapourised. Then again, after saying she would wait for him to say something nice, he then says something nice, so not exactly worth saving.)
I had forgotten the Cybermen was in this, so it wasn't until the Doctors got in the lift and the doors closed that I clicked on them being Cyberman eyeholes. But was it just me, or do we still not know what the three W words are? And just the hell would the Master/Mistress care about the Cybermen? He's worked with the Daleks before, but surely he considers the Cybermen beneath him? (Certainly didn't care about them in The Five Doctors.) This story sounds more like "let's bring back the Master... and pair in the Cybermen!" rather than have any particular plot reason, but then again that is very Steven Moffat.
And let's talk about the big reveal of the Mistress.. which many people predicted. It's like Moffat picked all the most boring reveals, perhaps to be different? Which didn't work. And the Mistress doesn't care about Clara much, so what's with all that? Next episode has a lot to pay off.
Next time: I didn't see the trailer, but the set up is amazingly Army of Ghosts, so something akin to Doomsday?
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Monday, 3 November 2014
DW 8.11
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So Cybermen are all about replacing inferior body parts, and what's the biggest body replacement surgery we do with current tech? Bones. So why the eff are they keeping the skeletons? Surely they have better material that can be used to support their exochassis.
And injuries, did they heal the bones before putting them into Cybermen, does no one ever converted by the Cyberman ever have any broken bones? Danny would have for sure.
And the Master? Back again? Please can we have someone else.
And why was everyone else this series looking for the place where the dead reside? Why did they give a damn?
One of the stupidest points of Rise of the Cyberman/Age of Steel was that people were being upgraded... but all that ends up being used is their brains, everything else is replaced! What's the point in all that?
But if they bring someone else back, then they'll have to explain who that person was, and we can't have people not knowing who characters are...
I was going
"Rani? Is it The Rani? That would be a cool twist."
But nope, it's stupid old already dead several times over The Master.
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So question, how was The Master able to interact with all those people who were dead in previous episodes? Is there a way for people to temporarily upload themselves to the data sphere?
When she said "One left behind" I was thinking "Susan? No wait, there was kissing." then Romana...
All better than my original thought back in Deep Breath of Iris.
I'm sure Steven will explain everything as he always does...
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