Welcome back Doctor Who fans boy oh boy what an episode episode 2 i'm going to full on warn you right now there will be spoilers in this review hence why it's in the name of the review there won't be spoilers in every review but anyone who's seen this episode will know that there's a few things in this episode which we have to talk about so here is my review of episode 2 of series 11 The Ghost Monument.
The plot of the episode is The Doctor and friends find themselves stranded on another planet and they have to try and find there way of it. That is honestly the best summery I could come up with and I think for a Doctor Who plot it really does work and there is a few callbacks to last weeks episode which I really enjoyed there's really nothing wrong with the episode at least plot wise.
Of course starring in the episode are Jodie Whittaker , Bradley Walsh , Tosin Cole and Mandip Gill and since we are only a few episodes in i'm not going to comment on there performances just yet but I will say that out of those four the performances were pretty spot on.
Joining them for this episode was Susan Lynch as Angstrom , Shaun Dooley as Epzo and Art Malik as Ilin and I have to say that for a while I thought that Shaun was the same guy who played Roses dad in the first few series of the reboot sadly he is not but that would have been awesome and it's with these guest actors that I personally felt that the acting was a little bit lacking they weren't bad at all but they could have been better.
There you go you have been warned because for the next few paragraphs there will be spoilers but tho don't worry because this spoiler doesn't spoil the main plot of the episode but i'm in two minds about the new opening title sequence on the one hand it does look really beautiful but on the other hand it just doesn't scream Doctor Who to me if anything it screams something like Game Of Thrones and if I wanted to see something like that I would watch an episode of Game Of Thrones but I will admit that i liked the new theme it has kind of an 80's Doctor Who style to it.
Now this is something that I was hoping they would do just because I couldn't work out how they would do a full series of Doctor Who without it but they do bring the TARDIS back and it's really relevant to the plot since it's the titular Ghost Monument which I thought was a really clever way of bringing it back to the show and as you can no doubt tell by the picture above we get a new redesign and like the opening credits i'm in two minds about it because it does look really great and it looks like it could suit this doctor but it doesn't look alien to me.
Now if you didn't want anything spoiled then welcome back because from here on out it's going to be spoiler free or as spoiler free as I can make it and I have to say that whoever made the call to film in South Africa then I hope that person got a raise because the country looks really stunning heck it looks so stunning that for a while I thought they went and filmed it in Spain everything about the South African landscape to me perfectly suits an alien planet.
Overall this was a solid episode with one or two issues but it's not a perfect episode by any stretch of the imagination so it gets an 8 out of 10 from me.