Sorry to the fans and to everyone who thinks this was Doctor Who at it's best. It wasn't. It was the worst, for me, as one who learned to love this show with the Matt Smith era.Of course I know that every person does expect his/her own things from this show. I expect to be thrilled, to be excited, to be amused, to be intelligently entertained etcetera etcetera. None of this happened, but why ?
Well, In the beginning, it went all fairly good. Besides, on a date, have you ever experienced, or even heard of two persons who both are destroying their date so perfectly, and are supposed to have a common future (as lovers) ? OK, it's a story, so it was at least a bit funny. But not much, because they fell into aggressive behavior against each other, which would lead to a lot of unedifying quarrel if they would come together as a couple after all (against all odds) in the show's future.
Next, The Doctor is suspecting something evil (or at least, scary) behind every person, a living nightmare that follows us when we are alone, or when we are children... Good ! Creepy ! What do we do to find out where the enemy hides ? - Right, traveling into Clara's past.
Because she is distracted during the process, they do not meet Clara herself as a child, but her date, her teacher colleague Mr. Pink, in his childhood. And from this point on, the story, the actors, the dialogs and every struggle to make a good episode, all are utterly wasted.
Something is on the boy's bed, something scary. It's erecting...standing up... and I had to laugh so much, because it looks like a big big erection, a gigantic morning wood, despite it happens in the evening. That took most of the atmosphere for me at this moment, but it is followed by an all painful ...nothing. Nothing at all but empty sentences, like "fear is a superpower" and so on.
Was this an episode for children ? - Maybe it's a try to help them, but children do not fear the dark, that is from an other time (I for myself do fear it, but none of my children, for example, they do fear getting up early in the morning). And the Doctor, being very old, he feared the dark as a child, too. He was full of fears. And he suppressed or forgot his fears, until now. So, grown ups are full of fears, too. Yes.
But instead of perpetuating this idea, instead of giving it a substance, a Lovecrovtian "something is luring behind that edge", or whatever makes a Dr. Who episode exciting, the writers refused to do anything about, but led us to nothing, in a complete non-exciting way.
I was very rarely ever bored with Doctor Who, except for the stale Dalek theme. This episode bored me nearly to death. Sorry.
Well, In the beginning, it went all fairly good. Besides, on a date, have you ever experienced, or even heard of two persons who both are destroying their date so perfectly, and are supposed to have a common future (as lovers) ? OK, it's a story, so it was at least a bit funny. But not much, because they fell into aggressive behavior against each other, which would lead to a lot of unedifying quarrel if they would come together as a couple after all (against all odds) in the show's future.
Next, The Doctor is suspecting something evil (or at least, scary) behind every person, a living nightmare that follows us when we are alone, or when we are children... Good ! Creepy ! What do we do to find out where the enemy hides ? - Right, traveling into Clara's past.
Because she is distracted during the process, they do not meet Clara herself as a child, but her date, her teacher colleague Mr. Pink, in his childhood. And from this point on, the story, the actors, the dialogs and every struggle to make a good episode, all are utterly wasted.
Something is on the boy's bed, something scary. It's erecting...standing up... and I had to laugh so much, because it looks like a big big erection, a gigantic morning wood, despite it happens in the evening. That took most of the atmosphere for me at this moment, but it is followed by an all painful ...nothing. Nothing at all but empty sentences, like "fear is a superpower" and so on.
Was this an episode for children ? - Maybe it's a try to help them, but children do not fear the dark, that is from an other time (I for myself do fear it, but none of my children, for example, they do fear getting up early in the morning). And the Doctor, being very old, he feared the dark as a child, too. He was full of fears. And he suppressed or forgot his fears, until now. So, grown ups are full of fears, too. Yes.
But instead of perpetuating this idea, instead of giving it a substance, a Lovecrovtian "something is luring behind that edge", or whatever makes a Dr. Who episode exciting, the writers refused to do anything about, but led us to nothing, in a complete non-exciting way.
I was very rarely ever bored with Doctor Who, except for the stale Dalek theme. This episode bored me nearly to death. Sorry.