With a show like Doctor Who you never really know what kind of show that your going to get from episode to episode. As one episode might be fairly scary episode and the next episode might be one that's more comedic and lighter in tone with the episode that i'm going to be reviewing for you all today being a really creepy episode of the show and so then join me as I review the episode that sees a truly iconic actress join the show with the episode in question being called simply just "The Crimson Horror" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is when bodies start turning in Victorian Yorkshire Madame Vastra , Jenny Flint and Drax along with The Doctor and Clara set out to stop this evil scheme once and for all. Now then interms 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 was in all honesty not that bad as it was a really unique plot but at the same time it's also not that very good either with it being the type of plot that you'd expect from the show at this point in time only it does nothing new or interesting and as a result of that is the fact that this plot just feels like that's going through the motions and while yes this episodes plot can be really good in parts with it having some really good ideas but the plot also doesn't really flesh out those ideas to the point where they feel like there really good ideas and as a result of that is the fact that the ideas that this episodes plot does try to introduce only feel good on paper and that's really it with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging 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 Catrin Stewart as Jenny Flint. Also starring in this episode is Neve McIntosh as Madame Vastra , Dan Starkey as Strax , Rachael Stirling as Ada , Eve De Leon Allen as Angie , Kassius Carey Johnson as Artie , Brendan Patricks as Edmund & Mr Thursday , Graham Turner as Amos , Scott Stevenson as The Dipped Man , Olivia Vinall as Effie , Michelle Tate as Abigail , Jack Oliver Hudson as Thomas Thomas and Dame Diana Rigg as Mrs Gillyflower.
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. This is something that not really all that new for this show as pretty much all of this shows episodes from this time period pretty much all have some really good acting in them with the same thing also being true for this episode as well with the true standout performers in this episode being both Matt Smith and Dame Diana Rigg both of whom just give phenomenal performances in this episode and it's there acting in this episode that really does make the episode really worth watching as that's just how good there acting in this episode really is with the acting that's in this episode really being helped by the fact that the script for this episode is just so good that all this episodes cast have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance really will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.
Doing the CGI for this episode is the legends and the really 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 not that bad with this episode having very shockingly minimal about of CGI with there only really being one big CGI effect in the whole episode and that's the reveal of the rocket ship that Mrs Gillyflower plans on using to spread her poison and kill everyone with that rocket ship looking really good given the fact that Doctor Who is produced on a very small budget and yet this episodes CGI still looks ten times better then the CGI that's in multi-million dollar movies that came out last year and while yes this episodes could have been better in some places given the fact that this show is produced on a really small budget it's remarkable that the effects that are in this episode turned out as good as they did as on paper this episode effects really shouldn't have looked all that good and yet we somehow managed to get some really good effects in this episode.
This episode does gave some surprisingly effective scares for a kids TV show with the fact that The Doctor is pretty much close to his death bed when he first appears in the episode. Which is just such a creepy idea even the location of Victorian Yorkshire looking really creepy and adding a somewhat Gothic atmosphere to the episode something that is added with the characters of Jenny , Drax and Madame Vastra all three of whom really do get a chance to shine in this episode and all three of them combined really do add to the overall dark tone in this episode the only real issue with the episodes scares is the fact that alot of the scares that are in this episode are just a bunch of jump scares which is fine for one two scares but when that's the overall majority of this episodes scares then it really does show that the makers of this episode aren't really willing t do all that much creepy and scary with them instead just relying on the atmosphere and jump scares and that's really it and while the atmosphere does indeed work and while some of the jump scares are indeed really creepy you do need a majority of different scares in this episode in order to make this episodes scares as effective as they really could have been and yet by the very fact that the makers of this episode chose not to do that it really does limit the amount of actual good scares that are to be found in this very episode.
In what was a really shocking move this episode really doesn't feature The Doctor all that much with him not even appearing until at the very least the fifteen minuet mark. With him not appearing in the episode not really effecting the episodes quality as the episode is just so good in it's own right that you almost forget that he's not even appeared in the episode yet with Jenny , Drax and Madame Vastra being the episodes main characters which does make sense as this episode was meant to basically be a backdoor pilot for a spin off show featuring those characters and as a result of that is the fact that not having The Doctor appear for a good chunk of the episodes running time as that does allow those character to really shine in there own right and it is something that really does make you wonder what a show featuring those characters would have looked like and given just how popular that those characters really were back when this episode was first airing it also makes you wonder why they didn't get there own show as the three of them really could have lead there show and yet even with The Doctor not appearing for a small chunk of this episodes running time it also makes you wonder where he is and when he will show up in the episode as well.
This episodes villain Mrs Gillyflower really isn't all that strong of a villain as she doesn't really get alot of screen time in this episode. Yet what little screen time that she does get she makes the best used of it by showing just how evil that she could be with it even being revealed that she basically abused her won daughter and made her go blind all of the sake of some question to find out at what dosage does the human body start to resist against her own poison and while she does have a clear end goal in mind the fact that the she doesn't have alot of screen time really does harm her as a villain as it means that she really get alot of time to show us the audience just how good and how interesting of a villain that she really could have been and yet when she does act creepy she does come across as being a really creepy villain and one that had all the potential to be one of the greatest Doctor Who human villains out there and yet because of the fact that she doesn't get alot of screen time it also means that she can't become as fully developed as a character which in turn would make her not only a really interesting character but it would also go a really long way into making her a really creepy villain as well both of which are things that really would have helped her character in the long run.
Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly forty four minuets and thirty nine seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstanderd running time for this show to have and to this episodes credit it really does make the most of that running time by spending the time to give us some somewhat good characters and to really shows us why Jenny , Drax and Madame Vastra really do deserve there own show and while yes the episode really does have enough there interms of plot to really cover that large amount of running time the episode also really didn't need to be as along as it was as alot of the episodes running time is spent with either filler scenes that add nothing to the plot of pointless comedic scenes which create tonal whiplash with the episodes more serious and creepy tone and yet if those scenes where removed from the episode then nothing that's actually important to the plot of the episode would need to be removed as all your removing is the pointless scenes that nobody would miss in the first place with the time that's then freed up could then be used to give the episodes cast some actual character development and make them feel like fully three dimensional characters but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us n 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 really being alot better then what it really had any right to be as it really does show us that even a character like Jenny a character that we really haven't seen in a fight before now really can not only hold her own in a fight but can also get the best of several men all trying to fight her at the exact same time which yes might come across as being a bit campy but it's also something that really does work in the context of the episode with the best action in the whole episode being the episodes action packed third act which is just so exciting to see from it's start all the way to it's finish with even the more really lighter moment with Drax near the end oddly working really in it's favor as it's something that that character would do which really does show that the makers of this show really can make a really good action sequence when they really want to that is in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this episode was alot better then it what it really had any right to be as on paper this episode shouldn't have been that good and yet for one reason or another this episode turns out to be a really fun episode that is also a very criminally underrated episode in the shows history 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 really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 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 used in this very review from Wikipedia , the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with alot of them being better quality then what'd think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.
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