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Post by matthewsee on May 9, 2013 19:30:57 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on May 10, 2013 18:40:07 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on May 12, 2013 18:40:37 GMT -5
Penultimate episode of season 37.
Written by Neil Gaiman.
Guest stars Jason Watkins, Warwick Davis and Tamzin Outhwaite.
Neil Gaiman writes for the Cybermen for this episode. Not only that but he gets to write in the kids that Clara looks after as she succumbed to their blackmail at the end of the previous episode The Crimson Horror. Whether it is a good thing or not this seems to be their own only TARDIS adventure.
Gaiman also brings back the Cyber Planner having previously appeared before, albeit in a different manner, in the Patrick Troughton stories The Wheel In Space & The Invasion.
Other familiar elements to come back in this episode includes seeing once again the images of all the past Doctors.
Despite it being written by Neil Gaiman and the aforementioned guest stars, I felt really disappointed by how this episode was presented including the Captain played by Tamzin Outhwaite who not only got killed but how easily her character got disposed of.
There are couple of things I did enjoy about the episode that of seeing plentiful of Cybermen more than I have ever seen before all in one shot and a Cyberman turning his head around.
In hindsight I probably shouldn’t feel surprise on Porridge turning out to be the Emperor of his people.
Despite its writer I do not know how this episode went so wrong in my eyes as I could not find myself liking it.
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Post by matthewsee on May 12, 2013 20:23:44 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Aug 28, 2016 21:54:14 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Aug 29, 2016 3:47:27 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Aug 29, 2016 16:33:37 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Aug 29, 2016 18:26:55 GMT -5
Before Missy was played by Michelle Gomez, Nightmare In Silver featured another Missy played by Zahra Ahmadi.
Since Nightmare In Silver is a Clara episode and it would later revealed that the lady in the shop who gave Clara, the Doctor's number as shown in The Bells of Saint John to be Missy/the Master it must have been quite a coincidence for Nightmare In Silver writer Neil Gaiman to come up with his own Missy as I am sure that Steven Moffat at this time had already come up with the name Missy for the Master's female incarnation but did not tell anyone including Gaiman prior to the Michelle Gomez Missy's first appearance in Deep Breath.
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Post by matthewsee on Apr 3, 2018 20:36:19 GMT -5
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