Today is quite a special day because it was announced that
Big Finish are doing more stories using characters from the new series. The
Judoon, the Weeping Angels and River Song are going to be used.
I haven’t mentioned it for a while but I have been watching
these episode on Netflix and I have noticed that especially in the previous two
episodes there was a little addition before the titles played and it is Amy
talking about her story with the Doctor and then the titles play. I’ve checked
the DVD just in case it was my poor memory but it’s not on there. Anyway to
todays episode and its not one of my favourites. I think that the swing from
seriousness of the previous two episodes to the light hearted tone of this
episode was too great. The story sees the Doctor, Amy and Rory arrive on a ship
where the crew are being terrorised by a siren-like creature. To be honest that’s
the most that I am prepared to write about the story because to be honest I
just haven’t got the enthusiasm to write much about it.
So I am going to write about the performances. The performances
from Smith, Gillan and Darvill are all quite good but I thought that Darvill
suffered because he was the one the got the black spot and that was about as
exciting as his day got. Smith seems to be having fun playing pirates and
Gillan is also having fun following him. Hugh Bonneville plays Henry Avery and
is perhaps the biggest name in the episode as he has been in stuff like Downton
Abbey, Twenty Twelve and W1A. He is a good on screen presence and brings a nice
vibe to the story but to be honest even Hugh Bonneville cant rescue this story.
Lily Cole is a name that got a lot of attention because she’s a model and
apparently that’s a big reason for casting her. Her character is one that
starts off as a baddie but is soon revealed to be a nurse helping everyone who
is ill on the ship and she makes them better.
I wasn’t a fan of the episode in 2011 and four years later I
still haven’t been won over by it. With everything going on it was a shame that
I didn’t take much more from it. It’s definelty the weakest story of the Matt
Smith era with The Beast Below slightly better but only because the novelty of
the new team of Matt Smith and Karen Gillan. Here there isn’t anything that I
can take from it. Thankfully when the episode ended and I saw the NEXT TIME
trailer it reminded me that one of my favourite Matt Smith stories coming up
next.
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