Doctor Who: Hide

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That was actually geniunely freaky with the ghost and the flickering lights and the camera jumping around like crazy and the VERY BRIEF SHOTS of the monster and THE MONSTER WASN’T MOVING RIGHT WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT THING IT WOULDN’T HAVE LOOKED OUT OF PLACE IN SUPERNATURAL IN FACT I THOUGHT I SAW IT IN SUPERNATURAL WHAT THE HECK

Anyway yes. Clara got a lovely little what I’m starting to call ‘the The End Of The World moment’ where the companion suddenly realises how small she is compared to time and space and history, and it was done really well, v. good acting. Plus herfromouttaCallTheMidwife/Emma’s description of Clara as ‘more scared than she’s letting on’ seems to be utterly accurate, I really hope we get an episode of her going back to Earth and seeing her family soon, seeing just how much she’s changed.

Two lovers stuck in opposite dimensions…REMIND YOU OF ANYTHING? I bet it reminded the Doctor. Also I bet that if they hadn’t offically announced Rose was coming back for the anniversary, we’d all be expecting it anyway by now.

I was absolutely shipping Hila and Emma for the five seconds before they turned out to be related.

Doctor Who: Cold War

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Dang! I was really disappointed by how underwhelming I found that. It felt like a load of other episodes cobbled together: a bit of Victory of the Daleks, a bit of Smith and Jones, maybe a bit of Midnight too…

Which is a shame because all the ingredients were there, they just didn’t deliver. Like the Ice Warrior chap was really quite cool (AHAHAHAHAHA) and the CGI on him was pretty good, but then he just…nothing really happens with him? Did the Doctor even bring him to account for killing half the submarine, I don’t think he did. AND! While seeing the Doctor willing to destroy himself, Clara and all the people on the submarine was an interesting and sense-making way to go, is it just me or* did the camera not even cut to Clara during that conversation? Because a look of ‘oh god I’m going to die here and this bloke who’s become my best friend is perfectly willing to sacrifice me for the greater good and AHHHHHH’ would have been good…

Um, what else? Clara was awesome as usual. Professor Mcsomebody was interesting, the rest were sort of forgettable. Maybe this is reaching a little (probably a lot) but I find it interesting that the missiles only slid back into place when Clara started singing ‘hungry like the wolf…’ (You’ve gathered why that’s significant, yeah?).

Wait, was there a reason they couldn’t just return Icewarriorman to his regular time, before he got frozen? Just have him stick around til the TARDIS came back…?

(*Is it just me, because just because I don’t remember it doesn’t mean it actually wasn’t there, it might have been.)