New Who Review for Before the Flood
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puppetmakerUsual rules apply to future episodes and the like. Spoilers for this episode and all previous episodes are under the cut.
Since Caroline had been out of town for “Under the Lake” and we were at NYCC when “Before the Flood” aired so I saw both episodes back to back and they work very well as a piece but were also fascinating individually.
This was fun from opening monologue to closing sentence. There isn’t any cheating here between the time zones and the actions of the characters.
Good character development through out. I felt sorry for each person meeting their fate as I had some idea who each one was.
I am glad that we met one of the ghosts before he was a ghost. Some great dialogue for him.
There isn’t much more I can say without spoiling something for someone.
The use of the Fisher King was a good one. The reasoning of the alien, who looked pretty scary, was solid for the most part. It was just not counting on the Doctor being motivated.
And there is the paradox on how the Doctor motivates himself which might come back to haunt him.
Is it me or is the Doctor insisting a little too hard that he can’t change the time streams and then deciding that the situation warrants his meddling?
I really enjoyed the Tivolian Prentis as the undertaker. The dialogue was played in such a happy fashion. Paul Kaye did an excellent job with a rather strange character.
They did use everything that we were told in the first episode to inform how things go in this episode.
And I loved the “who created Beethovan’s 5th” aka the bootstrap paradox. But I have a feeling that it sets up something later in the series considering the discussion that Clara and the Doctor have about time and time streams along with Davros’ conversation with the Doctor on why he is still running.
I am a little upset that I didn’t think about the hologram for the ghost and the Doctor putting himself in status and taking the long way around.
We are left a lot to think about in the end.
And the add of the guitar to the opening theme kicked some serious butt.
I am grateful for a solid episode of Doctor Who.
Since Caroline had been out of town for “Under the Lake” and we were at NYCC when “Before the Flood” aired so I saw both episodes back to back and they work very well as a piece but were also fascinating individually.
This was fun from opening monologue to closing sentence. There isn’t any cheating here between the time zones and the actions of the characters.
Good character development through out. I felt sorry for each person meeting their fate as I had some idea who each one was.
I am glad that we met one of the ghosts before he was a ghost. Some great dialogue for him.
There isn’t much more I can say without spoiling something for someone.
The use of the Fisher King was a good one. The reasoning of the alien, who looked pretty scary, was solid for the most part. It was just not counting on the Doctor being motivated.
And there is the paradox on how the Doctor motivates himself which might come back to haunt him.
Is it me or is the Doctor insisting a little too hard that he can’t change the time streams and then deciding that the situation warrants his meddling?
I really enjoyed the Tivolian Prentis as the undertaker. The dialogue was played in such a happy fashion. Paul Kaye did an excellent job with a rather strange character.
They did use everything that we were told in the first episode to inform how things go in this episode.
And I loved the “who created Beethovan’s 5th” aka the bootstrap paradox. But I have a feeling that it sets up something later in the series considering the discussion that Clara and the Doctor have about time and time streams along with Davros’ conversation with the Doctor on why he is still running.
I am a little upset that I didn’t think about the hologram for the ghost and the Doctor putting himself in status and taking the long way around.
We are left a lot to think about in the end.
And the add of the guitar to the opening theme kicked some serious butt.
I am grateful for a solid episode of Doctor Who.
