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Wednesday 11 January 2023

Doctor Who: Journey To The Centre Of The TARDIS Review

 


There are two characters that have been in Doctor Who since the very beginning one of them is of course The Doctor. However it's the other character that is the focus of this review since the TARDIS really hasn't had alot of episodes dedicated to it which is a shame because this is The Doctors one and only constant companion and his home and so then join me as I review the episode that promised to show us a deeper look at the TARDIS with the episode in question being called simply just "Journey To The Centre Of The TARDIS" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when the Tardis is mistaken as scrap The Doctor has to find Clara before hos ship explodes/ Now then in terms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode as in all honesty rather fun with this episodes plot being really enjoyable for the most part and really entertaining as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Starring in this episode is Matt Smith as The Doctor , Jenna-Louise Coleman as Clara Oswald and Hustle star Ashley Walters as Gregor Van Baalen. Also starring in this episode is Mark Oliver as Bram Van Baalen , Jahvel Hall as Tricky Van Baalen , Sarah Louise Madison as A Time Zombie , Ruari Mears as A Time Zombie and regular Doctor Who creature and monster legend actor Paul Kasey as A Time Zombie.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. Since all of this episodes cast members turn in some really good performances which given that one of them is now on House Of The Dragon that really is kind of given.



Doing the CGI for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at The Mill and Real SFX. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good with this episodes CGI being alot better then the GI that we got in many other TV shows from around the same time period.


Show runner and producer Steven Moffat has gone on record as saying that he gave this episode it's concept because of the fact that he was haunted by The Invasion Of Time which has the exact same concept as this episode. However both this episode and The Invasion Of Time have the exact same problem in that the corridors in the TARDIS interior look exactly the same and as such it's hard to tell where one character is when compared to each other and that makes it hard to tell if we should be scared for a character or not since for all we could know they might very well be just around the corner from each other.

Not really helping this episode is the fact that apart from The Doctor and Clara the rest of this episodes cast of characters just aren't that interesting. Since none of them have any interesting plot lines or arcs in this episode and none of them have a personality and as such they just come of as being very note characters and that just makes them a bunch of side characters that aren't that fun to watch and that we as the audience don't really care about because of the fact that we're not really given a reason to care about this episodes side characters.


What I really did love about this episode is the fact that both The Doctor and Clara snap at each other him for failing to figure her out ad her because he's scaring her. This was done beautifully since it was something that was needed at this point in Series 7 since the whole back half of series 7 has been trying to work out why Clara is the impossible girl and yet The Doctor can never figure out why that's the case since she acts and looks human and so when they do blow up at each other in this episode it really does make perfect sense from a character arc point of view as well.

Now then I cannot for the absolutely life of me remember whatever this episodes running time even was but I do know that this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of roughly forty five minuets. Which is really a plus for this episode this episode really doesn't have alot there interms of either plot or story and as such this episode really doesn't need that long of a running time and with this episodes running time it means that every single scene now has to be advancing the plot of the episode and as such we get some really do get some good pacing in this episode.


So now then since there was alot of action in this episode that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With this episodes action being genuinely quite exciting which is helped by the fat that we've very rarely seen an action scene set within the TARDIS and that makes the action feel all the more exciting and different in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.  


Overall this episodes complete and total cop out of an ending aside this was a really good episode and i'm surprised that more Doctor Who fans don't talk about this episode all that much since seeing more of TARDIS will always be a very good thing in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Wikipedia , the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the wonderful Google Images since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on Google Images are all fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly freaking high in definition.