Loved it. The No-Things trying to mimic people but getting the arms wrong seemed like the creepy monster version of “AI” trained on manmade images or texts, yet don’t have a clue about the real world.
Someone elsewhere pointed out that the aliens were going to become a horse person to enter the universe, like a trojan horse. Also that’s why every button was big and round on the ship, it was made for hooves!
But anyway… Wilf!
I’m glad everyone else enjoyed this one. My wife included but it just didn’t hit for me. It never felt to me like The Doctor or Donna actually got it right but that the Nothings just got it wrong. I didn’t feel like they did anything really. And if they weren’t there the ship would have exploded and there would have been no issue to begin with. And the Doctor grabbing the wrong Donna at the end really felt wrong to me. I dunno. Felt like an okay episode but I wanted more from a special that brought back The Doctor Donna.
Holy shit this was the best doctor who episode in YEARS. I got tingles as as soon as they realized they were on the edge of the universe.
How about the fact that this whole episode was just our two leads. They both really showed their acting chops.
What was a really good peice of narrative for our Doctor was the fact that his fast and clever brain was a detriment to stopping our monsters of that week.
Just superb writing and acting through and through.
Decent enough ep. The tone seemed a bit muddled, as they seemed to be going for a spooky vibe while simultaneously keeping the “lighthearted” mood they were pushing last episode too. Kind of threw me off. I liked the baddies, though, and I appreciate a story where the sonic or TARDIS can’t be used to just magic out a solution (except for the TARDIS Ex Machina at the end, I suppose). Also was very happy to see Wilfred! I was entirely unaware they had gotten scenes with him before he passed and was just expecting references. Overall I enjoyed it and am looking forward to next week!
*One little minor technical nitpick - if there’s literally nothing outside the ship, and the captain wasn’t wearing a helmet, how did they decompose?
Some anaerobic gut bacteria that happens to be able to survive vacuum? It was an alien…
Maybe. Just seems strange!
Probably would be seemed stranger to most people if they weren’t decomposed - they’d assume she wasn’t really dead. Best to supercede scientific accuracy for the sake of clarity.
Appreciation for the new disaster bisexual doctor.
