New Who Review for Under the Lake
Oct. 5th, 2015 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
puppetmakerAgain no spoilers for future episodes. But you’re allowed to speculate what is going to happen.
I enjoyed this one. I enjoy a good mystery and a good ghost story and this was both.
I like that the deaf character was played very well by Sophie Leigh Stone who is deaf and she was not a damsel in distress but a leader trying to do the best for her people.
None of the women were damsels in distress but some of the men were which was a nice flip.
I almost didn’t write this since the second half is going to reflect back on the set up in this episode but I thought it would be interesting to see what I would say without seeing the ending of the episode.
Show of hands, who else loved the social cue card? The speculation about the Aberdeen is that it is for Sarah Jane Smith as an apology or apologizing to someone from Glasgow for assume they were from anywhere but Glasgow.
I liked that this was a thinking episode and a bit of a bottle episode. Trapped underwater with ghosts is a good scenario for the Doctor to work through. This is one that you could drop any Doctor in and get about the same result.
And kudos to the team at Doctor Who for letting the deaf woman to be the leader of the group and no one even questions it at all. It just is. That she is deaf just is. And they used lip reading correctly as it how it really works. Having the translator seemed a bit much but I am willing to suspend my disbelief on that one.
So we have ghosts and a ticking clock and a time machine.
He took apart the radio to make a clockwork squirrel? At least he had a reason.
I am grateful for good episodes of Dr. Who that leave me wanting to see the next one.
I enjoyed this one. I enjoy a good mystery and a good ghost story and this was both.
I like that the deaf character was played very well by Sophie Leigh Stone who is deaf and she was not a damsel in distress but a leader trying to do the best for her people.
None of the women were damsels in distress but some of the men were which was a nice flip.
I almost didn’t write this since the second half is going to reflect back on the set up in this episode but I thought it would be interesting to see what I would say without seeing the ending of the episode.
Show of hands, who else loved the social cue card? The speculation about the Aberdeen is that it is for Sarah Jane Smith as an apology or apologizing to someone from Glasgow for assume they were from anywhere but Glasgow.
I liked that this was a thinking episode and a bit of a bottle episode. Trapped underwater with ghosts is a good scenario for the Doctor to work through. This is one that you could drop any Doctor in and get about the same result.
And kudos to the team at Doctor Who for letting the deaf woman to be the leader of the group and no one even questions it at all. It just is. That she is deaf just is. And they used lip reading correctly as it how it really works. Having the translator seemed a bit much but I am willing to suspend my disbelief on that one.
So we have ghosts and a ticking clock and a time machine.
He took apart the radio to make a clockwork squirrel? At least he had a reason.
I am grateful for good episodes of Dr. Who that leave me wanting to see the next one.
