Welcome back Doctor Who fans yes it is that glorious time of the week once again and it's time for my review of series 10 episode 2 get ready because it's time to smile.
Now then what is the plot of this weeks episode i hear you ask in my TARDIS well basically The Doctor and Bill have to at first try and defeat the characters from The Emoji Movie and then they have to help them. Yeah i couldn't help but make a reference to The Emoji Movie i'm sorry but in the episodes fairness it does a good job of telling this story by throwing in alot of twists and turns which i really liked i won't spoil the biggest twist of the episode since that also forms a bit of problem for me personally.
Of course we have our three main leads Peter , Pearl and Matt but guest starring in this episode we have Kiran L. Dadlani , Mina Anwar , Kaizer Akhtar and Royale Family star Ralf Little. Actually out of all the actors who are in this episode it's Matt who gets the shortest amount of screen time he just appears in the pre-credits scene and that's it but in that one scene he does get a good joke so that was nice Pearl also did a great job this week but like i said last week i won't fully comment on her character until either next week or episode 4 Peter for me was the true standout out of the main trio and that's to be expected since he is the most experienced out of the three. For me it was Ralf who did the best job out of the guest stars he was warm when needed and scary when needed but sadly like Matt he doesn't get alot of screen time.
The "monsters" if you can call them that looked pretty good i liked how they could only speak Emoji which i thought was a nice bit of possible commentary on today's culture they also had a bit of a creepy look to them there's something just creepy about a robot that's nearly always smiling and i liked that they did do that.
For me the issues that i had with the episode apart from that kinda twist was the fact that for alot of time Peter and Pearl didn't have that extra person they could bounce of they have great chemistry but i think that for now at least they work better as a threesome rather then a twosome but who knows as the series goes on that could change. Another issue i had was that The Doctor for me came of as a bit of a d**k in he was always waiting for Bill to work out the answer to something that he had worked out long ago and it just made him look arrogant.
In terms of action there really wasn't any big set pieces which i thought was a nice refreshing change of pace the only true set piece we get is near the end of the episode which for me makes the most sense since this episode mainly focused on the story rather then the action but when you get to big set piece ready yourself that's all i'll really say on that.
Now the music in this episode was better then last weeks but tho i couldn't really hear that much of it due to all the sound effects being so loud which is a shame because the bits i could hear i really liked so if i were on the editing team for Doctor Who i would turn down the sound effects and turn up the music.
Overall i would say that while this episode does improve on some of the issues i had with last weeks episode it still has it's own problems and this isn't by far the worst in Doctor Who history it's not the best either so for me this episode is a 7 out of 10