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Post by matthewsee on Nov 11, 2015 22:36:24 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Nov 16, 2015 20:12:05 GMT -5
Guest stars Reece Shearsmith. Shearsmith had played Second Doctor Patrick Troughton in An Adventure In Space and Time.
Here in Sleep No More, Shearsmith plays Rassmussen.
Like An Adventure In Space and Time, Sleep No More is written by Mark Gatiss and both Gatiss and Shearsmith are both in the League of Gentlemen.
Rather intriguing the episode had the absence of the title sequence with usual episode title, writer and director credit not showing up until the end credits. This was done in order to display the found footage premise as the episode begins with Rassmussen delivering the warning against watching this video.
One of the soldiers is called Chopra. Just as Doctor Who is shown in Australia on the ABC, 7 is showing Quantico just afterwards in which the lead actor has the surname Chopra, that of Priyanka Chopra.
The Mr Sandman song gets played out here and this song along with the creatures' very appearance sure inspired Clara to name the creatures the Sandmen.
Coincidentally the Mr Sandman song was used in a recent Haven episode Enter Sandman.
Funnily enough long before the said Doctor Who and Haven episodes Mr Sandman was playing in my head some months ago and I have no explanation why.
Kind of funny when Rassmussen popped his head out of the pod.
A Sandman eats Rassmussen which felt a little bit underwhelming. However it did provide an intrigue that was Rassmussen was still able to provide his video account with him saying that the video account proves that he is still alive to make it.
Interesting the Doctor revealed what the episode title means as it is a line from Macbeth.
Fascinating the Doctor making his conclusion about the Sandmen being able to see things following Nagata saying there are no helmet cams.
Not bad the menace that was Patient Zero and the revelation that Rassmussen is in cahoots with the Sandmen.
The Doctor, Clara and the surviving soldier Nagata got away in the nick of time and interesting seeing Nagata's view inside the TARDIS as the TARDIS dematerialises.
Shocking that the episode ends with the revelation of Rassmussen in his video account is a Sandman as he dissolves away.
It seems the episode leaves things unresolved and Gatiss has said afterwards that he is planning a sequel to this episode.
I was very taken aback that this turned out to be a one episode story as I had the misapprehension that this season is full of two-parters.
Sleep No More as a one parter came after the previous four parters of the season and this was quite a new season structure that has not been done before.
However while the next episode Face The Raven is not a continuation from Sleep No More it however still has the same director Justin Molotinov.
This is because of the production blocks in which a director works on two episodes each hence why the previous four parters each had one overall director and Molotinov directing the said two unrelated episodes followed by the season finale Heaven Sent/Hell Bent directed by Rachel Talalay.
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Post by matthewsee on Nov 17, 2015 2:49:19 GMT -5
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Post by 99elam on Nov 24, 2015 13:05:07 GMT -5
I didn't really understand the ending of this episode.... Can someone please explain???
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Post by matthewsee on Jan 16, 2016 19:20:29 GMT -5
When the Twelfth Doctor and Clara entered this episode the former said to the latter:
“They never put the word space in front of something just because everything’s all sort of hi-tech and future-y. It’s never space restaurant or space champagne or space, you know, hat. It’s just restaurant, champagne or hat.”
I read in DWM’s The Official Guide to the 2013 Series that Sleep No More writer Mark Gatiss had earlier wrote a variation of that line for Cold War this time with the Eleventh Doctor saying to the same companion Clara, “Oh. Word to the wise. Don’t put ‘space’ before something to make it sounds cool. Never works.”
This line however did not make it to the final version of Cold War.
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Post by matthewsee on Nov 28, 2016 22:06:14 GMT -5
Sleep No More with its found footage format went without the usual title sequence.
However upon seeing it on DVD recently the words Doctor Who still comes up in the beginning when after the Rassmussen’s introduction the screen is filled with letters and numbers and the words Doctor Who is illuminated with “Doctor” and “Who” each on vertical rows.
Sleep No More with its found footage format came on November 14 2015 and seven months earlier former companion my wife Karen Gillan was in the TV movie 7 Days In Hell on July 11 in which was on kind of found footage that of a sex tape with me her husband Matthew See.
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Post by matthewsee on Nov 28, 2016 22:16:39 GMT -5
Sleep No More with its found footage format went without the usual title sequence.
However upon seeing it on DVD recently the words Doctor Who still comes up in the beginning when after the Rassmussen’s introduction the screen is filled with letters and numbers and the words Doctor Who is illuminated with “Doctor” and “Who” each on vertical rows.
Sleep No More with its found footage format came on November 14 2015 and seven months earlier former companion my wife Karen Gillan was in the TV movie 7 Days In Hell on July 11 in which she was on a kind of found footage that of a sex tape with me her husband Matthew See.
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Post by matthewsee on Jul 8, 2019 22:15:37 GMT -5
The DVD for Sleep No More has a subtitle for Female Electronic Voice.
Why emphasise that the voice is female.
If it was voiced by a man would it have said Male Electronic Voice.
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