Last Night's episode of Doctor Who 'Dark Water' was certainly a one to watch. I thoroughly enjoyed it, It wasn't anything gob smackingly amazing, but it was a really good episode none the less. Obviously through the series we have had many little snippits of the whole nethersphere storyline, building upto the finalie. Now that we actually are there now, we finally get to understand what that storyline is all about.
Before I begin this review, this review is going to be filled with spoilers, so if you haven't seen the episode and you don't want it to be spoilt, you best stop reading.
Okay, you've scrolled down now so you obviously want to know what happens. But don't say I didn't warn you.
The story starts off with Danny on the phone to Clara, Clara wants to tell Danny something but before she can Danny obviously walks out into on coming traffic and gets hit by a car and dies. It seems pretty stupid of Danny not to look where he was going before he crossed the road. But what can I say, the character is a moron. So Danny dies Clara is depressed by this, because she's grown to love Danny by this point and they have a relationship between them that Moffat has created to make the audience emotionally engage with their realtionship.
Clara tries to persuade The Doctor to change time to save Danny's life, but The Doctor has other ideas to save Danny, Meanwhile Danny is in the Nethersphere. He meets a guy called Seb (Played By Chris Addison) Danny is obvlious to his surroundings. However it is Seb's job to refresh his memory which he does. I liked all the scenes with Seb and Danny, I thought that those scenes showed Danny's character in a new light and made me as a viewer see him in a different perspective. Chris Addison as Seb was brilliant, really well cast.
As an episode I didn't think it was that bad. Very steady going, very atmospheric and the suspense was turned up to 11. Danny Pink is a moron, obviously. Clara is deluded for loving a moron. The Doctor is horrified, and the identity of Missy is revealed.
There were some other idiotic moments, like the kissing greeting scene which was incredibly forced, and the annoying, typical-Moffat witty personas of Missy. However, the plot was interesting if slow in places, the idea was great, pertically the stuff with the Dark Water. I thought that was a clever idea, and I thought the explination to it was clever.
The Identity of Missy is finally revealed. About the whole 'Missy' thing. Missy is The Master. I personally don't mind it so much. I actually give a tip of the cap to Steven Moffat on that one. I didn't see it coming and it's a nice twist, because we genuinely do NOT know how this is going to play out next week and of course it's the big finale. Though I do find it difficult to contemplate just how Missy could be The Master. Not in the context of The Master changing sex, but because Missy was like a hologram thingy. So how could she be The Master?
The Cybermen were hardly in it at all, but again I'm sure they'll be heavily included in next weeks finale.
Everything just resolves back to this big question mark on the end, and that's the power of the cliffhanger, so it's annoying how Steven Moffat can demonstrate the value of having cliffhangers and then the series just does not use them.
Also there's the thing with Danny, will he press the 'Delete' button on the Ipad or will he not? That's a question worth answering. Personally I think he won't because he knows he loves Clara and it will be his love for Clara that will keep him going. I hope.
I'm just overly happy with the way it went, set the boundaries up for next week very well. I would like to award 'Dark Water' a good 3/5. (Good but needed some finer polishing done to it.)
Everything just resolves back to this big question mark on the end, and that's the power of the cliffhanger, so it's annoying how Steven Moffat can demonstrate the value of having cliffhangers and then the series just does not use them.
Also there's the thing with Danny, will he press the 'Delete' button on the Ipad or will he not? That's a question worth answering. Personally I think he won't because he knows he loves Clara and it will be his love for Clara that will keep him going. I hope.
I'm just overly happy with the way it went, set the boundaries up for next week very well. I would like to award 'Dark Water' a good 3/5. (Good but needed some finer polishing done to it.)
