Warning: Full spoilers below.
After the heavy events of the past four episodes -- Season 8’s finale featuring Cybermen and the return of the Master/Mistress and Season 9’s opener with the Daleks and the return of Davros -- “Under the Lake” feels like a bit of a throttle down for Doctor Who with its fairly ordinary tale of just plain old, oh, you know… ghosts!
It’s also, with its cliffhanger, indicative of how most of Season 9 is going to go. Judging by the episode descriptions released by the BBC, it seems that almost this entire run will be made up of two-part episodes. And there’s nothing like a creepy cliffhanger to evoke that old Doctor Who magic. But more on that in a second.
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After the heavy events of the past four episodes -- Season 8’s finale featuring Cybermen and the return of the Master/Mistress and Season 9’s opener with the Daleks and the return of Davros -- “Under the Lake” feels like a bit of a throttle down for Doctor Who with its fairly ordinary tale of just plain old, oh, you know… ghosts!
It’s also, with its cliffhanger, indicative of how most of Season 9 is going to go. Judging by the episode descriptions released by the BBC, it seems that almost this entire run will be made up of two-part episodes. And there’s nothing like a creepy cliffhanger to evoke that old Doctor Who magic. But more on that in a second.
Continue reading…
Continue reading...