Rassilon
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Post by Rassilon on Nov 14, 2015 20:04:50 GMT
What did you think?
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 14, 2015 21:18:21 GMT
Decidedly meh. Mediocre plot, unengaging characters, little suspense and a final twist that was really obvious.
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Post by skudge001 on Nov 15, 2015 4:01:23 GMT
Entertaining, unreliable narrator, and much as I like the Doctor and Clara it is nice to see them get in over their heads and have to back out. Sometimes running away is the best option, and it is certainly better than some sort of half baked contrived solutions we get sometimes. Given the unreliable narrator, showing the heroes running off is consistent with the narrator's point of view.
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Post by ninjaconor on Nov 15, 2015 11:07:14 GMT
Good direction and some scary moments but the actual plot was mind bogglingly stupid. After this and Robot of Sherwood I'm actually wondering if Mark Gatis sustained some sort if head injury ir something. Worst episode this season.
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Post by Stormcrow on Nov 15, 2015 12:14:58 GMT
I couldn't get over how completely preposterous this one was. Not as silly as "Forest of the Night" or "Kill the Moon," though.
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Post by bjmorga on Nov 15, 2015 21:52:35 GMT
I voted "good" for this episode. That vote might be a bit charitable. This episode was the first real clunker of the season for me. It was entertaining, but the ending was flubbed. I'm a huge fan of leaving a little ambiguity in there, but this exceeding my acceptable quotient of such things.
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Post by misterharry on Nov 16, 2015 11:23:22 GMT
An odd one. It's good to see that Doctor Who can still try something different after 52 years, in this case an entire episode based around the found footage genre. I just can't decide whether or not it worked. At the time of viewing, I enjoyed it. But after some reflection it felt a little frustrating, particularly the ending - will this be followed up in a future story? Maybe it'll improve on repeat viewings, but I suspect this will remain a story that divides opinion.
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Post by ninjaconor on Nov 16, 2015 17:15:29 GMT
I don't even see how the story made sense within its own logic. When people sleep gunk builds up on their eyes, so wouldn't eliminating sleep prevent it from building up rather than accelerate it? And how would it grow to the size where it completely consumes someone without them thinking "Hey! That crusty thing on my eye is getting a bit big. Might want to clean that off."
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Post by Stormcrow on Nov 16, 2015 20:13:47 GMT
And where does the mass of the dust come from?
Machine eliminates sleep and has monstrous side-effects, I can get behind that. Machine turns eye mucous into man-sized monsters who, for some reason, want to destroy us all—huh? And all the babble about humans being greedy because of trying to eliminate sleep was very strange condescension indeed.
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Post by ninjaconor on Nov 16, 2015 23:22:50 GMT
And all the babble about humans being greedy because of trying to eliminate sleep was very strange condescension indeed. Mark Gatiss just really fuckin' loves his Sunday lie-in and for some reason feels threatened that society might try to take it away from him
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DEN
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Post by DEN on Nov 20, 2015 20:50:35 GMT
I'm very conflicted here.
I'm with the people who don't 'get' the monsters.
I thought the hacking of peoples sight was kinda neat.
But that ending... The only conclusion is that sleep monsters wipe out humanity in the 38th century. Which I'm pretty sure goes against cannon.
Did I miss something?
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Post by da professor on Nov 21, 2015 9:12:16 GMT
I'm very conflicted here. I'm with the people who don't 'get' the monsters. I thought the hacking of peoples sight was kinda neat. But that ending... The only conclusion is that sleep monsters wipe out humanity in the 38th century. Which I'm pretty sure goes against cannon. Did I miss something? It only works if others receive the signal. I'm pretty sure the Doctor or someone else would block it before it got to that stage.
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Post by Eryx on Dec 21, 2015 10:12:17 GMT
Not a fan of the found footage genre but this wasn't a bad story. I just didn't like the ending. Running away is fine but they didn't stop the monsters and that is what the Doctor does.
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