I dont just drink Guinness – I have more taste then that – honest
Hello.
I’m not here any more.
Well no. Thats a lie. I am here… just not here on this site… I’ve come to the conclusion that I’ve got a tendency to post any old rubbish these days, so this site it now known as The Blog o’ Beer Archive – and as I’m sure you can guess, I’m not posting anything new on this site.
If you want new stuff… and I hope you. Please come and say hello over at Beer : Stuff : Nonsense
There’s a hotel. Each room inside it, has someones biggest fear. There’s a room for everyone.
One thing that “Steven Moffat Doctor Who” seems to do well is to stay away from big crazy storylines, but focus instead on the smaller scary ideas. And here’s one of them. After all, we have a monster that takes your worst fear, and then feeds on your faith that would normally carry you through.
We don’t get to see what’s in the Doctors room, but it’s possible that whatever he saw, helped to drive him to taking his companions back to earth. I have to admit, I didn’t see this emotional ending coming. I want to say they’ll be back in the season finale… They must be? Right?
So. What would be in your room?
Well.
I’m not sure what to say.
It wasn’t exactly good was it?
What did we get?
Quarter of an hour into it, we get the best Captain Jack moment. The conversation between Danes and was the sort of nice moment we needed more weeks ago.
Well. The CIA, were almost useful. They almost go all CTU on us. They are almost fantastic. They then get blown up. Dear Russell T Davies, by blowing up Q you killed one of your more interesting characters.
Whilst we’re at it. Esther was possibly the most developed character. She was interesting. She also got dead. Seriously… You then made Rex immortal!!! Why??!?
Thinking about it. How is he immortal? Please don’t say it has something to do with Jacks blood?
On the subject of the closing scenes at the funeral, why I’m surprised at the lack of emotion? Watching it again tonight, I was reminded of the funeral scene at the end of a classic Doctor Who… Even that was more emotional then this “epic ending”.
Look… It’s been nice. Maybe some Torchwood is better then no Torchwood… But I’m going to go and watch The Children of Earth now…
Well here something special.
Last week we had the creepy but fairly standard fair of Night Terrors. This week we get something… A little different.
It starts of with a standard idea; an alien planet, with an alien virus. Both ideas in this case, twisted. A virus that would only kill the Doctor – giving us what could well be this years equalivant of a Doctor lite episode? With the action concentrating on Amy Pond – but with Rory being given some of the best scenes.
The alien planet with the dual time streams, is the driving force of the episode supplying the emotional force behind the plot. The second time stream giving us two Amy Ponds, giving us an older jaded hurt Amy, and giving Arther Divil possibly his best scene in Doctor Who:
“I do not want to travel with you”
Some emotional chats later… We have the two Amy’s together with Rory racing back to the Tardis. A scene giving us some heart stopping moments with young Amy collapsing, and Rorys choice…
“You’re turning me into you”
A simple and possibly cheaper episode, giving us a reminder of how dark and manipulative the Doctor is, and Rorys anger with him…
So. Do you like fizzy beers?
Do you like a sharp fruity aftertaste?
Do you like really surgery tasting beers?
Then get here quick! Because we’re about to wash this stuff done the sink….
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Might even wake up to watch the rugby after getting this…
“2 months later…”
Well that sucks… It sounds like it went mad between this and the last episode. May have been interesting to watch…
The thing is. It’s two months later. Things have changed, and it feels like a different story, set in the same universe. Rex and Q are in charge of the CIA, Jack and Esther are hiding, and Gwen’s stealing drugs.
Then scary child killer turns up, and offers information… Question. Why did it take so long to get here?
Sadly it feels like we missed an story or two. Or at least a conversation or two, it just felt like I missed something every know and then.
Let’s talk it up for a moment. The scenes in the small Welsh kitchen while questioning Danes, it almost felt like Torchwood.
In fact. While I’m at it. Why did we spend so long in America?
Because this was better. It felt like there was a plot… That there was a story which was going somewhere. And it ends next week…
Should we take bets on who dies next week?
“Please save me from the monsters”
Creepy. Moody. And a little bit creepy again.
And alot of creepy investigation… stuff…
Shame it kinda took a while to get to the good stuff. Alot seemed to happen in the last 10 / 15 ish minutes. Gentle pacing problems maybe?
Mark Gatiss is very good at writing very much standard Doctor Who stories, and this is one of them. Theres not much plot, really. Its not well explained, but it was good creepy fun. But I can imagine 8 year old Doctor Who fans, and their struggling Dads loving it.
“Tick Tock
Goes the Clock
Even for the Doctor”
Well… Torchwood…
Do we keep watching because it can’t get any worse?
Well we get to see the guy from last week as an old man… But it seems that he’s not to blame… This is episode 8 for crying out loud! Get on with it!!
Talking about getting on with it, it seems that even Gwen was struggling to comprehend why last weeks episode existed.
We get some explanation… But its sooo dull!!! For some reason, even the non-CIA attack bored me.
Rubbish. Dull.
Then we get Q. Actually an interesting character! He actually seems to almost command the respect of the other characters! On the subject of the other characters – they’re likeable!!! Where have they been hidden? Shame we’ve not had a decent chance to get to know these new characters? A bit more time would have made the reveal of a mole a bit more interesting.
We also get some decent tech! Well a brief view of Jacks wrist strap in action anyway…
On the subject of Jack. He chose to keep secrets, have a sulk, and seem to spend a proportion of the episode being fairly useless. I can’t help but feel that Q (at least based on this episode), filled the position of lead character at points better then Jack.
So what do we get? An interesting character. A bored Jack, and Gwen being chucked back to Wales – mostly because Jack didn’t say anything.
I suppose we’re getting to the good stuff… Maybe.. Just such a shame Jack is being rubbish…
2 more episodes left… Will Rex settle on a personalty? Will we find out why Gwens family were kidnapped? Will Gwen stay in one country? Will Jack be useful?
Will the story get good?