Before we get to the review I have a little update. Seeing as every Doctor Who episode this season is a two parter, i will now only be reviewing the show once every 2 weeks, mostly because it's quite difficult to review half of a story, so there's that. Now to the actual episode, which continues on from last week, underwater base attacked by ghosts, The Doctor goes back in time to find out what happened, leaving Clara behind only to see he will soon turn into a ghost. So this episode sees The Doctor try to find out why he's going to die and prevent it all from happening while Clara...just kinda survives.
Actually let's start with the most irritating thing about this episode, Clara fucking sucks. I was never a big fan of Clara but i felt that she had gotten a lot better with Peter Capaldi, last week she confused me because everything she did and was said about her seemed to just contradict everything, this week she's just fucking whiny and rude. Now finding out The Doctor is dead is understandable for her to feel panicked and even take risks and her aggression out on other people, but some things she does are just awful. "You can die, just not with me! Do it with the next one!"...Really Clara? Fucking really!? I know she probably doesn't mean it but jesus christ, you're saying that you're fine with The Doctor dying just as long as you're not the one who has to deal with it? After you've had your fun with him and moved on and he's got another floozy following him he can die as much as he wants...i thought he was your best friend, bitch.
Then we move onto The Fisher King, the big villain of this episode...the design was really cool...that's the only good thing I have to say about him. Well okay i'm exaggerating there, his introduction scene was filmed brilliantly and he has a menacing voice but god his plan makes no sense. He's there to send of a signal to his people so they will come an enslave Earth (Never seen that one before!) except I have a few questions about this plan. Why did he need to fake his death? Why were the ghosts the best way to send the signal? Why didn't he bring an army with him when he first showed up? How does the writing on the wall work? Why did it take 100-ish years for your plan to work? Seriously, this plan is more convoluted than the plot to The Matrix Trilogy.
Also the biggest plothole of the episode being The Doctor's ghost and how he inspired himself by already seeing the plan, think Johnny B Goode from Back to the Future. They explain this away with the Bootstrap Paradox, a time travel goes back in time, creates something he loves and ends up being the one who created it, so the question is, if he created it, how did he come up with the idea? Clever paradox, not so clever plot device, it's the writer equivalent of just shrugging your shoulders. Also just a small problem, the deaf woman needing to go all Daredevil to find out there's someone behind her...here's another idea: TURN THE FUCK AROUND!
So I've been complaining a lot, is there anything I liked? Yes. Peter Capaldi gave one of his best performances in this episode, the fear in his eyes when he thinks he's already dead, the desperation in his voice to try and alter history, the way he delivers exposition about the bootstrap paradox and then shreds on the guitar. Can we make it a rule that The 12th Doctor always has to rock out on the guitar at some point? It makes him so much more badass.
Overall I have more problems with this episode than i do good things to say, no massive problems that made me hate the show or the episode, but the plot is convoluted, the villain is nicely presented but has a bad idea behind him and it just kind of feels lazy. But Capaldi was awesome in it. 6/10.
-Danny
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