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Post by matthewsee on Oct 29, 2014 1:28:50 GMT -5
Doctor Who is included in the following Original British Drama trailer narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch. A clip of the next episode Dark Water can be viewed by clicking on the play button when Doctor Who comes up in this trailer sometime after the 1.30 mark: bbc.wirewax.com/originalbritishdrama |
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Post by matthewsee on Oct 31, 2014 17:31:42 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Nov 3, 2014 2:08:07 GMT -5
Penultimate episode of season 38.
Directed by Rachel Talalay and she had previous experience directing a time travel series as she was a director on Continuum.
This episode starts off with the death of Danny, something which I did not expect to happen here.
Sheila Reid makes a brief return as Clara’s gran and that was also unexpected.
Before it was ultimately revealed to be a dreamscape, Clara demands that the Doctor go back to save Danny by a volcano. A reminder perhaps that Peter Capaldi’s first appearance in Doctor Who was in The Fires of Pompeii which of course feature a volcano in Mount Versuvius. In fact this season’s opener and Capaldi’s full official debut Deep Breath made its debut on Volcano Day August 23.
It was certainly a surprise after Clara threw all the TARDIS keys in the lava that it turned out to be a dreamscape from the use of a dream patch.
Knew immediately that the Doctor meant it literally when he told Clara that they were going to hell.
Like other people who were seen to die this season, it is Danny’s turn to be in the Nethersphere and I shared his wonder upon seeing the city of it.
Upon the Doctor and Clara finally meeting Missy, she says that her name was an acronym. Surprised to hear that even though due to the revelation at the end, the acronym was something that she made up.
Considering on who she turned out to be, I am not sure whether the greeting that Missy gave the Doctor is something I should be comfortable with.
Not bad misdirection of when Missy pretended to be a droid that the Doctor looks after her only for her to then say Doctor Chang.
Not bad revelation of what 3W stands for.
Funny that the Doctor says that the dead don’t come back just before a skeleton stood up.
The date November 23 is mentioned and that of course is the anniversary of Doctor Who as well as being Clara’s birthday.
Dr Chang gets fired literally and this was akin to Time Heist earlier in the season when the word fired was meant literally.
It took a second viewing to understand what Dark Water is and that is why it did not occur to me before this reveal that the skeletons would turn out to be Cybermen.
Missy mentioned Cybermen from Cyberspace and that is quite apt.
The Cybermen marched on the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral which was something they did before in The Invasion (1968). In fact The Invasion is an eight-part story which began airing on November 2 1968 and Dark Water aired on November 1 2014 just a day short of The Invasion’s 46th anniversary.
The cliffhanger of this episode comes the revelation everyone has been waiting for and that was Missy’s identity. When she said that Missy is short for Mistress, I hardly had time to register it before revealing that she is the Master.
This revelation was definitely well worth the wait.
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Post by matthewsee on Nov 3, 2014 18:12:51 GMT -5
Dark Water Extra: www.youtube.com/watch?v=npCpqguKQ0kOne of the TVs at my house has access to Youtube and the Dark Water Extra is the first Extra episode that I got to see on Youtube by the TV and what a thrilling experience this was. Somewhat taken aback to hear Michelle Gomez’s real voice in contrast to the one she uses as Missy. Upon finding out that Danny dies in the main episode, Samuel Anderson said that he could not believe it as he thought that no one dies in Doctor Who. Is he serious? Interesting comment from Steven Moffat that Missy makes us laugh but we are still frighten of her. Interesting look at the filming of the warzone flashback scene with Danny. Funny when Moffat says St Paul’s Cathedral was a replica filmed for the main episode only for him to say that he is kidding as it is the real thing. |
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Post by matthewsee on Nov 5, 2014 21:28:06 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Apr 13, 2017 5:17:53 GMT -5
In DWM’s The Master issue, Alistair McGown in his analysis of Dark Water/Death In Heaven made this interesting speculation on why Danny Pink died at the beginning of Dark Water:
“It’s tempting to speculate whether it was Missy driving the car that killed Danny, as he is the factor that draws the Doctor into investigating 3W.”
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Post by matthewsee on Jul 28, 2018 22:49:03 GMT -5
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