Davros was great as always but I really cant stand this female Master.
And the glasses are just dumb.
I liked the Daleks (I usually do), Davros, the explanation behind the Master's escape last season, and the exploring the Dalek armor scene.
I disliked the Dalek sewers, Davros' force field still being in the control room (?), and the Tardis re-assembling (?? I think I missed the line where he 'explained' what happened to it). So I guess in short most of the ending. Except the true ending - it was obvious that the Doctor was going to go back and save Davros from the hand grenades (sigh), but the reason why I liked.
I like the new Masters. She's a lot of fun. I wouldn't mind if she wasn't the Master, however - if she'd been a new character, like a time lord who had been driven insane by being in a stasis box too long - but I understand the desire to tie her more intimately to the Doctor so fans don't wonder why she wasn't a one and done monster of the week.
I do think that her over the top act is just that - an act that she's putting on around the Doctor.
Hand mines. If they were ever referred to as grenades I thankfully missed it. I would've begun to wonder if Skaro had ever been called Xanth.
I could like Missy if she wasn't supposed to be the Master. She's amusingly insane. Although she does come off a bit like an Evil River.
It's going to bug me if there's no meaningful reason for the burned out eye sockets.(https://images.weserv.nl/?url=livingwithanerd.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F02%2Fwhat-has-been-seen.jpg)
Hm, sounds like some of these comments are being written by grumpy Daleks or something!
I've really been enjoying this season... at least, right up to the end of the past episode when nothing much got explained and the entire mythological backstory of the Fisher King lore got ignored. But that writer's been known to turn in some flat bits, so that's our luck of the draw. Go back and look at any age of Doctor Who and you'll find there's always a dud somewhere, even season 13 and 14 had'em.
And speaking of old school Doctor Who... The monster in this two-parter should looked like one of the old, wobbly, made of bubble-wrap monsters...
Hopefully that's the end of the sonic sunglasses.
So, is it just me, or did it look like we're actually going to see the fact that Capaldi has played other characters addressed as canon?
Maybe. I tend to watch the episodes when I'm a little sleepy on Sunday mornings and sometimes have to rewind to see what I missed during a very prolonged blink.Spoiler for Hidden:
I'm hopeful for an appearance by Captain Jack or even dare I say the Face of Boe.
I was fully expecting that everyone was trapped in a networked dream state in the new Morpheus machines. The Sandmen in this plot in my head were people who had been consumed by and added to the growing intelligence in charge of the network. Ergo the failing gravity shields would have been an effort to force everyone to wake up.
Did not like this episode one bit.
I really liked it up until the last, ohhh, 3 minutes or so. However long dustman's speech was. That wasn't an ending. Sigh.
For some reason, the diner reminded me of the place where Ford and Arthur met Elvis.
Also: I simultaneously realized that I missed the previous episode and that I don't find it necessary to see it.
Also also: Hooray sonic screwdriver.
Don't look unless you have seen Hell Bent.Spoiler for Hidden:
There were obviously things I liked about it. The new sonic screwdriver, the allusion to half-human Doctor from the TV movie, the new sonic screwdriver, the HHGttG feel of the diner (which I'm sure runs on bistromathics)...
But it seemed like a wasted return to Gallifrey. And I'm not sure how I feel about immortal Clara. I liked how they handled the memory wipe reveal, though.
So I can see how someone might come away hating it.
There were obviously things I liked about it. The new sonic screwdriver, the allusion to half-human Doctor from the TV movie, the new sonic screwdriver, the HHGttG feel of the diner (which I'm sure runs on bistromathics)...
But it seemed like a wasted return to Gallifrey. And I'm not sure how I feel about immortal Clara. I liked how they handled the memory wipe reveal, though.
So I can see how someone might come away hating it.
That sisterhood of Karn actress is famous? I'm either not familiar with her work, or I just didn't recognize her. I'll have to look into that.
Clare Frances Elizabeth Higgins (born 10 November 1955) is an English actress. Her film appearances include Hellraiser (1987), Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988), Small Faces (1996) and The Golden Compass (2007).