Today is a very important day in Doctor Who fandom (not that
you need reminding of course). 10 years ago today the show that seemed dead and
buried returned. I remember going to my friend’s house somewhat nervous about
what I was about to see. Little did anyone know that the show would go on the
journey that it has done since then. I would watch Rose today to celebrate but
I must stay strict and watch it in the correct order.
The episode doesn’t start in a particularly good way as it
takes several minutes to get going. It seems slightly odd that in the
penultimate episode of the story that things are moving a bit more quickly. The
thing that does seem to happen early on in the episode is that the clowns seem
to be more in the story than before. There is something quite good about these
clowns and something that does back up the theory that clowns are creepy.
The writing hasn’t been particularly strong because there wasn’t
anything that really stood out in terms of dialogue. The leading stars don’t really
do anything that has been on the same level as has been seen during this
season.
For the first time all of the supporting performances were
quite good. Mags is starting to change into a werewolf. It hasn’t really been
suggested up until this episode that she may be a werewolf. It’s alluded to at
the beginning of the episode but doesn’t really get addressed until the very
end of the episode where it forms part of the cliffhanger. The cliffhanger is
rather good and it’s the strongest one so far. There are some good scenes
between Ace and Bellboy which suggests that a romance could have possible. I
have underrated Christopher Guard’s performance as Bellboy because he really
showed me in this episode how good he is. The performance from Chris Jury as
Deadbeat was another good one because there is something slightly unnerving. The
Captain continues being totally unlikeable by letting the geek to go and
perform before him. At least the geek go to explain how he came to be there.
When he enters the ring to do his performance he walks in with a cocky
attitude. I really couldn’t wait for him to be wiped out by the family. The
family spend a long time sitting bored as no one is put in front of them. The
three people that play the mother, father and the child are quite chilling and
I think that they would have been quite an effective villain. Ian Reddington
continues to impress so I won’t say much more cause I have spent two episodes
praising him.
Things are building up nicely. I don’t know exactly what to
but I think that the story is starting to get going. I still think that this is
one of the stories that should have been put in the three episode slot because
there isn’t enough to fil four episodes. There was a lot of not very much
happening. It took a long time for the episode to get going and took even
longer for someone to appear in the ring.
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