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Dr Who: Closing Time
Oh dear.
The worst episode of the series so far, I think - Slacker Dad plus some sniggering humour, ancient cliches, so much massive coincidence they felt the need to apologise for it in the script itself, and possibly one of the lamest ways to defeat a monster (and most ineffectual uses of a monster) ever. This felt like a filler episode rushed together at the last minute on a minimal budget -- with all of time a space to choose from, do we really need yet another present-day London-set Earth-bound episode, let alone one as lame as this? The worst of Spielberg meets the worst of Russell T Grant, without the virtues of either.
And were we supposed to remember who 'Craig' actually was? I'm assuming he was some character who turned up for an hour in some episode six months ago, or possibly last year... but frankly I'm not sufficiently interested in him to go and do the research. If this makes me Not a True Fan so be it.
(I did like the idea of the Doctor being able 'to speak Baby' in addition to all the other languages at his command -- but I've a feeling even that is wheeling out something that's been already done earlier.)
I think this episode actually had negative enjoyment value: it detracted from the rest of the series simply by existing :-(
And I didn't think much of the sudden cliffhanger switch either, harking back to a previous overwrought and unsatisfactory plotline ("A Good Man Goes to War")
The worst episode of the series so far, I think - Slacker Dad plus some sniggering humour, ancient cliches, so much massive coincidence they felt the need to apologise for it in the script itself, and possibly one of the lamest ways to defeat a monster (and most ineffectual uses of a monster) ever. This felt like a filler episode rushed together at the last minute on a minimal budget -- with all of time a space to choose from, do we really need yet another present-day London-set Earth-bound episode, let alone one as lame as this? The worst of Spielberg meets the worst of Russell T Grant, without the virtues of either.
And were we supposed to remember who 'Craig' actually was? I'm assuming he was some character who turned up for an hour in some episode six months ago, or possibly last year... but frankly I'm not sufficiently interested in him to go and do the research. If this makes me Not a True Fan so be it.
(I did like the idea of the Doctor being able 'to speak Baby' in addition to all the other languages at his command -- but I've a feeling even that is wheeling out something that's been already done earlier.)
I think this episode actually had negative enjoyment value: it detracted from the rest of the series simply by existing :-(
And I didn't think much of the sudden cliffhanger switch either, harking back to a previous overwrought and unsatisfactory plotline ("A Good Man Goes to War")
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"I speak Baby" was done before, more briefly, in "A Good Man Goes to War", when he met baby Melody.
On the whole, I agree it wasn't a terribly good episode, though I think for me it managed to have enough fun bits (mostly involving the Doctor interacting with small children) to avoid being negatively enjoyable.