Doctor Who: The Well Review

Doctor Who right now is in limbo as it hasn't been cancelled at all but there's also no new episodes being made and it doesn't look like they'll be new episodes for a few more years at the very least. That doesn't mean that we still can't talk about episodes that are now apart of what is now officially the last era of New Doctor Who and that's exactly what is going to be happening as the episode that i'm going to be talking to you all about today was one of the few good episodes from this season and so then join me as I review the episode that is a sequel to to the episode Midnight with the episode in question being called simply just "The Well" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is whilst trying to get Belinda back home The Doctor and Belinda find themselves on a ship where the crew have a mission to find out what happening on a mining colony on a planet that The Doctor has visited once before. 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 really good. With the episodes plot being a far cry away from the types of plot that were getting in not only this season but also in the previous season as well where the episodes did tend to be a little bit preachy in it's messages whereas here in this episode the plot was just allowed to be this really creepy plot. This is something that does work for the episode as Doctor Who has always done really creepy plots or plots that are meant to be scary and they nearly always worked and it's the same thing here as thee plot of the episode does work as it's just this one group of characters alone not only with a total stranger but also with a beast that only the stranger Aliss can see with this being something that does make the episodes plot be all the more thrilling and while the episode does focus alot on it's plot it doesn't do it enough to the point where you do buy into the plot a the episode does advance the series long plot which weas somethin that it really didn't need to do as focusing on the episodes main plot is where the episode shines bright with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Ncuti Gatwa as The Doctor , Varada Sethu as Belinda Chandra and Annabel Brook as Hanno Yeft. Also starring in this episode is Luke Rhodri as Callo Rence , Bethany Antonia as Mo Gilliben , Gaz Choudhry as Kai Sabba , Christopher Chung as Cassio Palin-Paleen , Caoilfhionn Dunne as Shaya Costallion , Gary Pillai as Albie Bethick , Rose Ayling-Ellis as Aliss Fenly , Frankie Lipman as Sal Van Hyten , Paul Kasey as It Has No Name , Jermaine Dominique as Ulric Dazen , Anita Dobson as Mrs Flood and Amy Tyger as Val Vivo.

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. The fact that we have good acting in this episode isn't really all that surprising as even tho alot of the season does have some pretty badly written stories in it nearly all of them have some really good acting in it with this episode of course being of no exception to this rule as all of the episodes actors do feel right at home in this episode with them all tuning in some really good performances that granted won't be winning them any awards but will still get them noticed for how good the performances are in the episode. With the episodes best actor by a long country mile being Rose Ayling-Ellis as Aliss Fenly as she is just so good in thus episode not just because of the fact that she is a deaf actor and therefor she can use that and draw upon it for inspiration but also because of the fact that she is just a good actor in her own right with her acting circles around not only Ncuti Gatwa but also the rest of the episodes actors with her getting more of the episodes more dramatic moments which is something that really does pull of with ease with bringing a certain vulnerability to her character that really does shine through in her performance. With the acting that's n this very episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so good that all this episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance 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 Freefolk and the legends and the greats that are currently over at 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. The episodes CGI was to be frank alot more better then what it really had any right to be as while the episodes doesn't create a fully CGI version of the episodes monster it does mainly use CGI to either film something that they couldn't do in real life such as showing The Doctor and Belinda falling to the planet from space from a example or by extending things in the episodes sets both or good ways to use CGI as there only using it to do something that they couldn't do in real life with the episode actually using alot more practical effects then they do CGI effects with even the creature being done for real when they really didn't need to as they very easily could have had the creature be a CGI effect and it still would have worked by the fact that they did it for real and that alot of the stunts in the episodes was done for well does say that the makers of this episode really do know how and when to use CGI as there not just using it because they have the budget to do so which is something that they very easily could have done as they would have had that big Disney money to play with but they don't and heck alot of you might not realise this but a small portion of the room that Belinda and Aliss stay in whilst it's was mostly done for real had some CGI done to it and yet you don't notice it because of the the fact that it blends in with the live action footage so well. 

Just to be frank out all of the new characters that this new era of Doctor Who gave us Aliss Fenly has to be one of the best characters. As this character is smart and sassy and isn't afraid to stand up for herself and fight for what she knows is right even when alot of the episodes other characters are telling her she's wrong these are things that are the hall marks of not only a good Doctor Who companion but just a good character in general with the fact that the character is also death being secondary to everything else about her as this is a character that has a life outside of that part of her with her doing anything that she could do just to see her daughter again as that's who she is as a character and the fact that Russel and Sharma Angel-Walfall who are the co-writers of this episode wrote her to be more like a real person and less like a character that's there to hit home whatever message they want does show you that Russell T. Davies could still write good new characters when he really wanted to. Heck it's not wonder that the Doctor Who fanbase welcomed Aliss with welcome arms when this episode first came out as she is just such a fun character and it would be interesting to see where any future Doctor Who writers took her character as there are so many ways that you can go with her character both re and post this episode and all of it would work and yet for odd reason the BBC seem to shoving Jo Martin down our throats when she's not that interesting as a character and yet Aliss is more interesting with there being more stories that you could tell with her character and heck even seeing what she got up to after this episode all of the trauma that she would have to deal with due to the events of this episode would be alot of fun and seeing the attack on the base again is something that would be interesting to see even tho we know how it all ends.

As was mentioned at the very start of this review this episode is actually a sequel episode to the episode Midnight. With the makers of this cleverly not announcing that it was going to be a sequel episode rather they let us all find out at the exact same time and that was a genius move as now it means that us the audience can go back and rewatch the episode looking for any clues as to what the big reveal is and yeah there are some major clues to be found once you know that twist reveal and yet they don't take anything from the big reveal or make it more obvious rather they do serve as a fun little thing for us to pick up on on repeat viewings and that is something that a good reveal like this one should do and while they are other better reveals in Doctor Who this surely has to be up there as one of the best plot reveals in the shows history due to the fact that no one saw it coming. With the only thing that lets this reveal down being the fact that it's not something that is brought up or even hinted it at prior to the reveal with making it look like that the reveal was thought up at the last second as while it does have a part in the episodes plot with it being something that inspires The Doctor to find a way to stop the villain of the episode prior to this reveal there is no sense with The Doctor getting a feeling that he's been here before as while he was only on what is basically a train in Midnight he was still on the planet and therefor would have been able to work out that that the planet he is on is the same one that The 10th Doctor went to back in series 4 of the show, whilst this doesn't harm the episode in any major way it does make the big reveal feel more like an after thought when t should have been something that the makers of this episode were building towards. 

The villain of this episode is called either Midnight Entity or It Has No Name as the creature as the second name would suggest has no name. Heck across both this episode and Midnight we only get to see it in it's true for for a handful of seconds in this episode and even then it's mostly covered in darkness this again is such a good idea as it does mean that us the audience have to use our imagination as to what the creature not only looks like but how they talk and what there backstory is and that is something that is far more scarier then anything that could be created on a TV show budget as there's no limit to your imagination with the little that we do see of the creature not really giving us much to work on as the character is inly very briefly on screen for a matter of seconds. With the fact it's only killing people for fun and not to archive any goal does make it feel like that the villain is meant to be seen being more childlike as children don't do things for rhyme or reason they just do them with this creature taking that exact same approach with it only killing people when they step behind it with this being something that does make it more creepy as a villain and while it would have been nice if we did get to see what the villain looks like alot more this is something that would ultimately harm the villain as not knowing what it looks like actually makes it all the more scarier as now it could look like anything and it would work however it would it have been nice if we did get to see the creature in action alot more as this is something that would have made it alot more of a threat to the characters prior to the big reveal nearer the end of the episode rather then only having the character be this major threat to the characters near the episodes end as by that point in time it is far to little to late to make the character be all that threatening.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly forty eight minuets and four seconds. This is pretty much the bogstanderd running tm for this era of Doctor Who and to be fair the episode does need that amount of running time in order to tell it's plot in a way that does do justice to it as the episode does have to build up tension to make that big reveal work and and t make the monster be all the more threatening in the first place with this being something what would have been impossible for the episode to to do if it had a more shorter running time as it would mean that something would have to get from the episode it self with the episode having more then enough there interms of plot to really cover that amount of running time. However tho this episode still doesn't use its running time all that wisely as the episode really doesn't take the time to fully develop its plot with the episode giving a good portion of its running time into furthering the seasons plot which would have been find if this was say the fourth episode of the season but its not it's the third episode and therefor the main focus of the episode still should have been on the episodes main plot and it making sure that the plot was well developed with the makers of this episode caring more about making us scare of the episodes villain then they were in giving us plot development. The same thing is also true for the episode characters as while it could be argued that both The Doctor and Belinda don't really need any character development as there the main characters but we know so little about what it is that makes Belinda tick in the first place that she does come of as being a surrogate character for audience rather then a character in her own right and the rest of the episodes get nothing interms of character development with the makers of this episode putting more thought and effort into giving us another clothes changing scene then they did in giving us character development but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action show that really does mean 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 film was in all honesty really good. With there not really being much in the way of action in this episode as the episode is more of a horror focused episode with there being of a focus on horror , tension and suspense but then the episode does have an action scene no matter how quick it ends up being it is something that does still end up working due to the fact that the makers of this episode did put some amount of care into making sure that we cared for some of these characters. With the best action scene in the whole episode being when Shaya Costallion works out the best way for them to get rid of the creature is for the person who is being haunted to by to kill themselves with her pulling out her gun and using it on Belinda who is being haunted by the ghost shooting her thus getting the creature to attach itself to her and when she does she just runs back to the well having flashbacks of her own childhood and then jumping into the well killing herself and seemingly the creature as well this was such a good action as while there are no explosions and no cool moves being done its just simple storytelling with one character showing that she's willing to do anything to do anything to save the fay and that's it with the rest of the episodes action being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this episode is a kore then worthy sequel to Midnight as it gives us all of things that we'd want to see in a Midnight whilst also giving us a likable character in Aliss and also giving us some really creepy visuals and a creepy villain all of which are things that do make this episode really good in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. ow 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 7.5 out of 10 from me.

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Doctor Who: The Five Doctors Review

Multi Doctor stories are a very rare thing as alot of the time they are saved for the big anniversary episodes of the show with there being one exception to this rule. With the shows most ambitious special at the very least when it comes to the amount of returning characters being the very episode that i'm going to be talking to you all about today and so then join me as I review the episode that really should have been called The Four Doctors with the episode in question being called simply just "The Five Doctors" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when someone starts taking all pf the previous Doctors out of there own timeline and placing them on Gallifrey it's to the Fifth Doctor to team up with his previous selfs and work out what is actually going on before its far to late. 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 really good. With this episodes plot being epic enough to justify it being the plot for a special episode of the show let alone one that celebrates twenty years of the shows history. With it being helped by the fact that this episode was written by Terrence Dicks who wrote many Doctor Who episodes in the past alot of which are very well regarded with this episode being one of them. As the plot of this episode does feel like a timeless plot as it is one that could have been made during any era of the show and it would still work and while yes there are some faults with the plot like the fact that the Fifth Doctor does get lost in the shuffle despite him being the then current Doctor but on the whole given the fact that the show was being treated that greatly by the BBC at the time no one would have expected this episodes plot to be as good as it ended being and while yes there are certain aspects of the episodes plot that could have been done better like the big reveal of who the villain actually is the plot on the whole was one that was handled really well 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 Peter Davison as The Doctor , Jon Pertwee as The Doctor and Patrick Troughton as The Doctor. Also starring in this episode is Richard Hurndall as The Doctor , Janet Fielding as Tegan Jovanka , Mark Strickson as Vislor Turlough , Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith , Carole Ann Ford as Susan Foreman , Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart , Anthony Ainley as The Master , Philip Latham as Lord President Borusa , Dinah Sheridan as Chancellor Flavia , Paul Jerricho as The Castellan , David Banks as The Cyber Leader , Mark Hardy as A Cyber Lieutenant , Richard Mathews as Rassilon , Frazer Hines as Jamie McCrimmon , Wendy Padbury as Zoe Heriot , Caroline John as Liz Shaw , Richard Franklin as Captain Mike Yates , David Savile as Colonel Crichton , John Leeson as The voice of K9 and Roy Skelton as The voice of the Dalek.

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. The fact that this episode does have some good acting in it is something that is to be expected from this show as all you have to do is look at who us starring in this episode and you know right away that your going to be getting alot of really good acting in it as alot of this episodes are some really good actors in there won right. With the best actors in this episode oddly enough not being one of the actors playing The Doctor nor is it any of the actors playing the companions rather its Anthony Ainley as The Master as while Jon Pertwee does with ease slip back into his role and Richard Hurndall does a good enough job of mimicking what William Hartnell did as the character Anthony is clearly having the time of life in this episode with him and Peter Davidson just eating up all of the scenery in all of the scenes that they are in with it being helped by the fact that Anthony does have some really good chemistry with alot of the actors in this episode with the only thing that does let his acting down being the fact that he does play the role of The Master a bit to much like a Pantomime villain when he should been playing alot more seriously as this is something that would have helped with the more urgent nature of the episodes plot but at the same time it was still fun seeing him clearly having a blast in making this episode with that kind of infectious energy being something that really does shine through in his performance in this episode. With the acting in this episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so good that all this episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance 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.

In a move that is to be expected we do get alot of returning both interms of the shows hero characters and as well as some of the shows more well known villains. With The Yeti , Cybermen and of course The Daleks all making an appearance in this episode and while none of them get alot to do in the episode it is nice to see this episode tip its hat to to the foes that helped to make the show scary for little kids and out of those three characters its oddly enough the Cybermen and not the Daleks that get the biggest role in the episode as you would expect the Daleks to get more of the limelight given the fact that they are perhaps the most well known creature in Doctor Who but they just get the one scene in the whole episode and that's that whereas the Cybermen have an entire subplot with them trying to take over Gallifrey and destroy The Doctors TARDIS. It is weird that the makers of this episode would give the Cybermen the bigger roles to play in the episode as while they are just as well known as the Daleks it is the Daleks that did help to put this show on the map and therefor it would have been understandable if the makers of this episode did give them the bigger role of the episode and heck they could have had the Daleks and Cybermen switch roles and nothing would be altered about the plot of the episode with the only thing that the episode would need to explain being how they managed to climb up the rockface to take on the robot which even then you could very easily just revert that to the Cybermen, while it was great to see alot of the more well known monsters that the show has had it would have been nice to see alot of the more goofier monsters as well just to show that even tho the show did make alot of really good scary monsters there were also a few misfires like for example The Zarbi or The Macra for example both of which are things that could have been given the fact that the episode did have a bigger budget then the usual series of the show got. 

Just to be clear this review is being based on the version that is up on BBC IPlayer with this being mentioned because of the fact that they did make a few changes to the cut that was on the original DVD version of the episode. As in the original DVD version the Time Scoop went from looking like a triangle to an upside down twister that actually moved and the image that they use to represent Tom Baker is just from a random serial with both of these things being changed to now just having the original triangle back with the difference not being that we see a picture of whom ever it has captured and the image of Tom Baker now also featuring Lalla Ward which was taken oddly enough from Shada. This is something that does make sense as Shada was a mostly unfinished serial and therefor when Tom decided not to come back they could use some of that footage to explain why he and Romana weren't in the episode but here it does feel out of place as it does remind you that you could be watching that series and while yes the makers of this episode had there hands tied and did try to do the best that they could have done in that situation which is fair enough but whoever was in charge of the effects for this episode could have done alot more better job as the the effects used in the original DVD version where alot more better with it feeling like that the makers of that DVD did go out of there way to make the effects look better and make changes that worked for the serial. However that's not the only change made as for some odd reason the only piece of William Hartnell footage at the start of the episode has gone from being black and white to having this weird orange tinge over it which just looks at of place and while it doesn't detract from the episode in the slightest it is something that does stand out and was something that the BBC really didn't need to do as they already have the source material for that scene in there archives.

For some odd reason this episode does have alot of The Doctors and there respective companions not meet up until near the end of the episode. This is something that does feel weird as the whole point of these multi doctor stories is to see the various incarnations of The Doctor interacting with each other and yet it is something that the makers of this episode do hold off on showing us and while this is something that does make sense plot wise as the episode does explain that the Fifth Doctor was unable to send out a call that would alert all of the previous incarnations of where he is and we do see all of the other versions get scooped up and placed somewhere near a friend of theirs or in the case with the Second Doctor get scooped with Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart therefor they would of course be unable to meet up with the Fifth Doctor, however if the First Doctor and Susan were able to do so just by luck then surely the rest of them should have been able to do so as well as then we could have had some banter between not only the Second and Third doctors but also the rest of them as well which is something that would have been quite fun to see yet for one reason or another the makers of this episode seemed bent on not giving us that as even when the First , Second and Third Doctors all meet up then then current Doctor gets put under a mind control with this whole episode leaving him feeling more like an afterthought when it should have been him that played a vital part in saving the day but on the flip side of that is the fact that having him be the one to get mind controlled is a great way to add tension to the episode as it does say to us the audience that if it could happen to him then it could happen to any of them and the episode doesn't really linger on it that much and even when the Fifth Doctor is away from the group he is still very much active in the main plot of the episode as he does find out who the true villain of the episode is.

Rather shockingly this episode does have a really creepy ending to it as when it is revealed that the main villain of this episode is Lord President Borusa with him getting The Doctors and there companions to play the deadly game of rassilon for him so that he can claim its prize of immortality. However Rassilon does flip this on his head as while he does make him immortal it's not in the way that he wanted as he turns him into a statue that appears on the side of Rassilons own tomb with this being something that the First Doctor had worked out and even told Rassilon that he does believe that Lord President Borusa should be made immortal as a way to defeat Borusa for good. This is something that is quite creepy as we do get to see the three faces of the other people that have tried to make this claim before now on the side of his tomb and while Doctor Who has never and will never shy away from showing us scary images it is still something that is creepy to look at as all of the faces are human with us being able to see there eyes moving with the whole thing being such a creative and creepy image, with it even being a tragic end for Borusa as did technically get his wish of wanting immortality it's just that no one will ever get to see him again and heck this is an images that does make you wonder why the makers of this episode didn't try to include more creepy visuals like this one in the show as it is something that the show is known for doing with the whole thing being more then creepy enough that it will get people diving head first behind the sofa as it were. Yet this type of scare is something that could only have worked with a master writer like Terence Dicks as with any one else it would have just fell flat on it's face but with him doing it both the scare and the mystery as whom the main villain even is work really well as he does have a clear love of all things science fiction.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty minuets and twenty three seconds. With this episode being a feature length special episode of the show and was for the longest time the only episode of this show to have that kind of running time until the 1996 Doctor Who: The Movie as while there have been other serials that have reached that running time those were exactly that serials this one is just the one episode and by god it really did need that running time as it does have so many characters to both reintroduce and introduce and still have to tell a good story and it wouldn't be able to do any of those things in a shorter running time or even if it did go back to the serial format of the show as something would eventually get lost in the shuffle with the episode having more then enough plot there to really cover that amount of running time. Yet even with this in mind the episode still doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as the episode doesn't take the time to fully develop its plot as the episode does have perhaps a bit to much to do interms of reintroduce the previous versions of The Doctor which is understandable as he is the main character of the show but then the episode does waste alot of time in also reintroducing alot of the companions as well and that's before they even get the plot of the episode properly started with it feelin like that this episode would have been alot more better of if the episode was a little bit longer as while the episode does try to add in things that are key to plot like both the Third and Fifth Doctors turning down The Masters help that idea can't be fully developed as the episode is alot more focused on showing us how each of The Doctors and most of the companions got captured in the first place. This is something that does kind of effect the episodes characters development as while alot of the episodes characters don't really need character development as alot of them either will get or already did get there development in other episodes of the show it still would have been nice to show characters like the Time Lords getting some character development or even one of the versions of The Doctor getting some character development but the episode does seem more focused on showing us The Doctor turning down The Masters help twice in a row that it does leave very little time for the characters to get any kind of character development 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 really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in his very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally tought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / resented t us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. While classic Doctor Who never really had the time or money to give us alot of really exciting like the more modern episodes of the show do we did still get some really good action and while the action in this episode is still pretty good it does oddly feel like that the makers of this episode are either being held back for whatever reason or are holding themselves back as alot of the time this episodes action just isn't as exciting as it should have been. With the best action scene in the whole episode being when Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart sneaks up on The Master who is holding the four Doctors hostage at gun point and just flat out punches him knocking him out cold and whole that might not seem like much it is something that does make The Brigadier look like a total bada*s as nine times out of ten it was always either The Doctor defeating the foe or The Doctor tricking the foe into defeating themselves it was never really The Brigadier doing it and therefor to see him be the one the knocks out The Maser does remind us that this person is an action man essentially and while it of course would have been nice to see any one of the The Doctors be the ones to knock him having it be The Brigadier is one that does oddly make alot of sense for his character with some of the episodes action being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Overall this is a really good special that did honor Doctor Who's then twenty year legacy with there technically being a Doctor from every decade at that point in time and while The Day Of The Doctor is the better made special this one does have its own charms to it that do work really well for the episode 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.

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Doctor Who: The Beast Below Review

When we think of the Matt Smith era of Doctor Who we very rarely if ever think about his debut series as while yes we will for obvious reasons think about his debut episode that's really it when it comes to this series. Well I thought that since it's been quite a long time since anything from the Matt Smith era of Doctor Who was last reviewed that i'd take a look at a forgotten episode from a largely forgotten series and so then join me as I review the episode that sees The Doctor kick Amy off of the TARDIS with the episode episode in question being called simply just "The Beast Below" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when The Doctor and Amy land on a starship that hosts the whole of the UK barring Scotland they have to work out what is actually keeping the ship afloat and why people keep on getting taken. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in al 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 OK at best. The episodes plot does feel like its trying to do a bit two much rather then just being this one thing as we have the story of Amy trying to persuade The Doctor not to investigate the ship and then we have the series long arc of these cracks appearing everywhere and we have the episodes main plot with all three of these fighting to screen time whereas if the episode just focused on its main plot and nothing else then it would have worked all the more better. As the episodes plot on its own isn't that bad of a plot but the issue is that due to it fighting for screen time with other plot heavy scenes then it is left feeling undercooked and not as good as a plot like this could have been as by all rights this episodes plot could have been one of the more better plots for this fifth series but due to the episode trying to do to much with all of those individual elements working better on there own it does leave what could have been a really good plot being a bit forgettable, when this plot should be anything but that as this is still the start of a new era for the show and therefor the makers of this show should have been trying to still try and win over new viewers with this plot 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 , Karen Gillan as Amy Pond and Sophie Okonedo as Liz 10. Also starring in this episode is Terrence Hardiman as Hawthorne , Hannah Sharp as Mandy , Alfie Field as Timmy , Christopher Good as Morgan , David Ajala as Peter , Catrin Richards as The Poem Girl , Jonathan Battersby as A Winder , Chris Porter as the voice of the Smilers and the Winders and Ian McNeice as Winston Churchill.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in al 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. Whilst it is hard to say if this episode did get any praise for its acting it is something that the episode should be praised for as alot of the episodes actors do give us some really good performances with the likes of both Matt Smith ad Karren Gillan already nailing there characters just two episodes into there runs on the show. With the best actor in this whole entire episode being Sophie Okonedo as Liz 10 as while it would have been super easy just to say that either or both Matt and Karen are the best actors in this episode they would go on to have the benefit of being on the show for a long time whereas with Sophie she does have to give us a good performance right from the word go and she does do exactly that with her being really cool and at ease in the part of a character where it would have been super easy to just play it as it's written n the page and add nothing new to it but the fact that she does take the time to make her be this cool character think James Bond with a crown and yet she still does take the time to make you feel something for her character which is something that really would have been quite hard to do. With the acting that's in this very episode not really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so bad as it gives none of this episodes absolutely anything to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does help to harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode. 

Doing the CGI for this episode is Real SFX and the legends and the greats that are currently over at The Mill. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in al 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. This episodes were of a rally high quality as the episode did gave more ambitious effects in it for the time and to be fair to the episode the episodes effects haven't aged as badly as they perhaps could have done. As there are effects in this show first series that have aged horribly despite them having the same team that worked on them with this being due to the fact that here was more technology there to create better looking effects in 2010 then there was in 2005 with then being something that dies make all of the difference as while in 2005 they did have to rely more on practical effects with them introducing more CGI elements the further the show when on here in this episode it's mostly an effects driven episode and therefor the effects did have to be really good and while there will always be a need for practical effects in Doctor Who this show has always been and will be an effects heavy show, while the effects in this episode can look a little bit dodgy at time with the CGI tentacles being a good example of this alot of more of the episodes effects do look really good which is mainly due to the fact that the episode does mainly hide there effects in darkness whereas the tentacles are in plain view and therefor we the audience can see all of there faults as they do look a little bit to fake and they do have a plastic like look to them that makes them look like a toy and not something from a TV show. 

We do get to see something that is never seen in Doctor Who in this episode and that's the fact that we get to see The Doctor kick Amy out of the TARDIS. As when he discovers that she has been trying to get him not to investigate this ship he does rightfully snap at her and he does outright say that as soon as there done here he's taking her home with this being something that is so unlike The Doctor and whilst it could very well be chalked up to the fact that she was lying to him and he doesn't care much for liars one of his first rules is is that he will lie therefor the more obvious reason for him doing this is because of the fact that he hasn't travelled with anyone since the end of the fourth series of the show and given the fact that we've seen how The Doctor acts when he's not been around another human being for a long time. It is obvious that the reason that he snapped at Amy when she herself admitted that she was having a bad day and made the wrong call was because of the fact that he hasn't travelled with anyone for some time thus now Amy has to be the responsible one of the two as The Doctor does try to find a painless way to kill of the space whale that's carrying the starship quite literally on it's back with her remembering the fact that she over heard someone say that the creature won't feed on the children. The fact that it's essentially Amy that saves the day and not The Doctor is a good idea as it not only shows the audience how capable that Amy Pond is but it also gives The Doctor a reason to not only trust her again but also welcome her back onto the TARDISA with this being something that do seem to be seeing less and less with each passing season and yet here it is something that is a kind of plot point in the episode.

To be frank here the best word that one could use to describe this episode is forgettable as that's exactly what it is due to the fact that nothing memorable in the episode happens with the only slightly memorable thing that's in the episode isn't even apart of the main episode as its the cliffhanger for the episode which even then is a tease for the next episode this is something that does do alot of harm to the episode as yes it would have been foolish to expect every single episode of this show to be memorable given the fact that they were still trying to reintroduce the show and introduce it to a new audience then there should have been some level of thought and effort put into making this episode be all the more memorable instead of just leaving it as a blank mess of an episode. Heck the episode doesn't even have any villains in the episode as both the Sliders and Winders are only acting the way that they are as they believe that if Liz 10 did hit the abdicate button that they would all die with them acting more out of self reservation rather then malice and anger and while the fact that this episode does have no villain is something that could be seen as being the point of the episode as the episode could be seen as being a pro environment episode which is something that is fair enough but given the fact the episode then doesn't make the human character the outright bad guys which they could have done if that was the case then it does make you wonder why this episode has no real villain to speak off and while not every episode of this show needs to to have an outright villain indeed it could be argued that the very first Doctor Who serial also doesn't have a villain. Here tho it is something that does do a lot of harm to the episode as it robs the episode of the chance of having quite literally anything memorable in the episode happen all for no good reason which is something that does help to make this episode be all the more forgettable.

Liz 10 as a character is one that did have all of the potential in the world to be a great reoccurring character for this era of the show. As she is cool and calm and is always willing to do what's right no matter the cost and heck one could even argue that instead of forcing River Song down our throats by having her appear at least once or more times in a series that maybe Liz 10 could have gotten some love from this episodes writer Steven Moffat as it would have been so cool seeing her and River bounce off of each other in "A Good Man Goes To War" for example and yet outside of this episode and "The Pandorica Opens" the character never appears again in Doctor Who. Which des make you wonder why they bothered o make be this cool character that you actively want to see more off as they very easily could have found ways to explain why The Doctor is bumping into her much like how they found ways to explain that exact same thing when it comes to River Song and yet for one reason or another River got all of the love which she did rightfully deserve then Liz 10 did this is despite the fact that Liz 10 had more of the potential to be this cool character as they had to make up the fact that River was basically Indiana Jones in space where as with Liz even just by going off of this episode you see all of the potential that this character had and it makes all the more upsetting that the makers of this show didn't take full advantage of that by having her appear in more episodes, however tho given the fact that she is the Queen of the starship UK it would have been hard to find believable ways to explain why her character was always having these adventures with The Doctor without The Doctor having to keep on returning to the starship UK each and every time.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly forty one minuets and twenty seven seconds. Which is the bogstandard running time for this show is moving forward and to be fair to this episode whilst it doesn't really to be that long to tell its story the episode does take the time to make the Starship UK feel like a character in its own right and it's not something that could have been and still tell a good story if the episode had a shorter running time and if the episode was longer then it would have felt like that the episode was stretching an admittedly thin premise even thinner with the episode n the whole having just about the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first place. Yet the episode doesn't use its running time all that wisely due to the fact that the episode doesn't take the time to fully develop its plot with this being due to the fact that the episode does have alot of plot lines going on with them all fighting for screen time where as if the episode but more focus on just its running time on just its main plot and not on several of the episodes other plots as all this does is make the episodes main plot feel less developed yet if the episode did take the time to fully develop its main plot then all of the episode other plots would have been all the more better and stronger. This is something does also effect the episodes character development as none of the episodes characters barring The Doctor and Amy get any kind of character development with it being pointless for Amy and The Doctor to get there character development in this episode as they have all of the other episodes of the show to get there character development and yet here we see The Doctor learning to trust humans again and we see Amy learn that lying can get her into trouble 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 really does mean that I have to actually talk abut the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us un 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 not that bad. While the episode doesn't have that much in the way of action when it does ramp the story up and it does ramp up the excitement this is where the episode does begin to shine and while the episode doesn't have a single fight scene in it this is something that does work well for this episode as this is an episode that is more about exploring The Doctor and Amy as characters and that is somethin that doesn't demand alot of action. With the best action in the episode being when Amy and The Doctor find themselves in a creatures mouth and have to find a way out of it with The Doctor eventually getting the creature to sneeze which is a really good idea with this scene being the closest that we get to having a fully blown action scene in the episode as very thing else in the episode is more subdued with the episode relying more on scares rather then action with that action scene only working due t the fact that we get to see some of the wonderful chemistry and Matt and Karen have with each other as they both have some wonderful back and fourth with each other in that scene which us something that does make that scene be all the more exciting, heck one could argue that that action is a good way of getting the characters to try and find a creative solution to a problem that they had no idea about and to be fair to the episode that is something that des work well enough in the  characters favor with the rest of the episodes action being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Overall it is easy to see why this episode is as forgettable as it is as outside of the character of Liz 10 and all the potential that she had as a character there's nothing all that memorable about this episode and yet if there was more thought and effort put into this episode then this episode could have been a really solid episode 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 a such that really does mean that this very epsode 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 in this very review rom Amazon . Co . Uk , Tardis . Wiki 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 Tardis . Wiki 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 really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Tardis . Wiki really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan Review

Missing episodes is classic Doctor Who is a cross that any Doctor Who fan just has to deal with as alot of classic Doctor Who is still missing to this very day. However about a month ago now we got confirmation that not one but two missing episodes have been found with the BBC then promising to have them up on BBC IPlayer over the easter holidays well at 6am this morning as of the time of this writing that's exactly what they did as they added episodes one and three of this still mostly missing serial and well I thought that i'd review the episodes that we still have with us so please do bare in mind that this review is being episodes one , two , three , five and ten of this serial and not the serial as whole and so then join me as i review the serial that sees not one but technically two characters die really gruesome deaths with the episode in episode in question being called simply just "The Daleks' Master Plan" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is The Daleks are launching an all out assault on just one planet but the entire universe and it's up to The Doctor , Steven and new companion Katarina to stop them before it's far to late. 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 really good. Even tho there are still huge portions of this episodes plot still missing due to the fact that there are still a WHOPPING seven episodes still left to find you can still the potential in this episodes plot as it does have the potential to be one of the best plots in the William Hartnell era of the show due to the show that we not only get to see The Doctor being being pushed to his limits and beyond them but we also get to see just how deadly that the daleks really can be. Both of these are things that do make this episodes be all the more interesting as so often we get told that the daleks are this big universe shattering threat and yet we barely get to see them act like it especially in classic Doctor Who which fair enough could always be drawn up to budget issues but here it is something that does work as by the time the plot of the episode starts the daleks have already taken over a planet yet with The Doctor even in modern Doctor Who we never really get to see him pushed to his limits and yet here due to the events of this episode we get to see what that looks like and it is something that does make this episodes plot be all the more better because of it. Whilst it is of course still hard to fully judge this episodes plot as there still lots of episodes missing what we can gather is that this episode does have a really good plot to 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 William Hartnell as The Doctor , Peter Purves as Steven Taylor and Adrienne Hill as Katarina. Also starring in this episode is Jean Marsh as Sara Kingdom , Kevin Stoney as Mavic Chen , Nicholas Courtney as Bret Vyon , Brian Cant as Kert Gantry , Pamela Greer as Lizan , Philip Anthony as Roald , Michael Guest as The Interviewer , Peter Butterworth as The Meddling Monk , Roy Evans as Trantis , Douglas Sheldon as Kirksen , Dallas Cavell as Bors , Geoffrey Cheshire as Garge , Maurice Browning as Karlton , Roger Avon as Daxtar , James Hall as Borkar , Bill Meilen as Froyn , John Herrington as Rhynmal , Peter Hawkins as the voice of the Daleks and David Graham as the voice of the Daleks.

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. With all of this episodes actors turning in some really good performances with this being something that's not really new to this show as this show even in it's early years did have some really good acting in it something which you can tell was going to be the case by the fact that alot of this episodes actors are a bunch of really good actors in there own right as alot of them do bring something that's unique to them not only to there characters but to the episode on the whole. With the best actor in this episode being William Hartnell which yes is a bit of cliche thing to say but it is also something that's true as we get to see in this episode not only how much fun he was having playing the role of the Doctor but also how threatening and stern that he could be as in episode ten he demands that the daleks release his friends something which they have to agree with as he has the mineral that they need with that being just how good of an actor that he is as you do believe that he could take on the daleks without even breaking a sweat. With the acting that's in this very episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so good that all this episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance 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. 

Character wise all of the episodes characters of course including the shows main characters are all done really well. With them all acting how you would expect them to act in the given situation with The Doctor going from gleeful to meaning at a drop of a heart and Steven being the team regular action man bottom line is if you liked those characters in there other episodes then odds are your going to like them in this episode as the makers of this episode do take really good care in giving us heroes that we not only like but that we also want to succeed with the only character who doesn't get alot of screen time in this episode being Katarina herself which given what does happen to her in this episode is something that does make sense. However tho it's because of what happens to her that the character should have had alot more screen time given to her as she does come across as being a really fun character however given that she only appeared in the final episode of the previous adventure it would have made sense if the makers of this episode did give her more of a time to shone in this episode. With the episodes guest characters like for example both Bret and Sara being really well handled and getting alot of screen time in there own right with Bret being a military man who is very by the books and Sara is pretty much a female version of Steven only she isn't as trusting of a person then he is which is something that does make the dynamic alot of fun to watch as we get to see that he is willing to trust anyone who appears to be friendly to him with this being The Doctor rubbing of on him and yet due to the fact that Sara has never travelled with The Doctor she is more battle hardened as it does take a while for her to trust anyone and in her surviving early episode she doesn't trust The Doctor and his friends at all which is something that make her character quite interesting.

As was mentioned earlier on in this review this review is purely being based on the surviving episodes of this serial as there are still seven episodes still missing. Given that it's taken us THIRTEEN years to just get these two episodes I truly do think that the best thing for this adventure right now would be to animate the rest of the episodes and release them all together with the surviving episodes on DVD with this being something that the BBC could very easily do as they did release The Evil Of The Daleks which is seven episodes long and like this one does have missing episodes so it is something that they could do in the near future. Heck they could even then take the time to fully up on the cliffhanger from Galaxy 4 and animate Mission To The Unknown which is a prequel to this episode and have that be included as a bonus feature on the DVD along with the surviving episodes from this episode and while of course it would be preferrable to see all of the episodes returned of course it would but we do have to think realistically here as odds are those episodes are no longer with us or are damaged beyond repair therefor animating the rest of the venture would be the best way to go about getting the whole adventure not not only out on BBC IPlayer but also out to the general public to watch and enjoy as well. With this being something that we know for a fact that the BBC could do ant anytime as they have the sound recordings for all of the episodes due to the fact that they released both an audio book of the story and a Vinyl Record of the episode both of which were done using those original sound recordings with there truly being nothing to stop the BBC in releasing the rest of the story animated and given how well just releasing these two episodes have gone down that might be the wisest move that they could possibly make.

To be frank this episode was always going to be a treat as it does mean that we get to see more of the classic era of the show that might well have been lost forever due to the fact that there's all that much surviving material out there or this episode. Heck the BBC even did something that they never ever do when classic episodes of the show are returned to them as usually they'll just put out a press release and that'll be the end of it but here tho not only did they put out a press release they've also put out a few videos across all of there Doctor Who social media accounts they even just today put up a picture saying that the episodes are now up on BBC IPlayer and there even holding a special screening of both of the episodes as well. This says that even they know they this episode was something truly special as you don't do all of this for no reason you have to know that this is going to get peoples attention which in all fairness is something that they did do with these two episodes. With the fact that they even released the episodes onto Iplayer the day before the screening being something that says that they do care about the fans of this show which again begs the question of why not animate the rest of the episodes as now we have about half of the surviving episodes so it is something that it is not only something that they can do but it's also something that could do quite cheaply as well and it would give us all the chance to see the rest of this truly amazing story as while the episodes that we do have for this episode are good and they do give us alot of potential you can see the slight quality dip from say episode five to episode ten which given that this episode does have two different writers is something that des make alot of sense. 

While two of the still missing episodes of this story are really dark as they feature the on screen  deaths of both Katarina and Sara both of which appear to be shockingly gruesome with Katarina being sucked out of an air lock and Sara quite literally aging to death. We also get to see just how ruthless that the Daleks can be as we get to see them kill someone in cold blood just because they believed that he was a traitor to them all the while Mavic Chen looks away not out of disgust but out of boredom as it was something that just didn't interest him and heck we not only get to see them kill someone in the jungle in either episode 2 or 3 but we also get to his body. This is something that Doctor Who would very rarely if ever do with them only really doing it when it made things more dramatic and the villains more scary both of which is done in this episode as while we have always known just how scary that the daleks could be as we've seen them kill in cold blood before we then don't get to see that same persons body after the fact and yet this is something that they take great pride in showing us. Infact one could argue that the daleks seen in this episode are perhaps the most scariest that they've even been due to the fact that director Douglas Camfield uses shadows alot of the time to hide the things that are meant to be scary and sometimes this works like for example there is a great shot where we see a Dalek creepy out of the shadows to kill someone other times it doesn't work like for example in this same story where a monster that is meant to be scary clearly misses his target and yet the person still falls over dead and heck even before the daleks kill someone in there own base of operations they slowly circle and trap him in before instead of yelling there signature exterminate they yell execution just something like that makes them more scary.

Now then whilst I cannot for the absolutely life of me remember what this episodes grand total running time was I do that for a fact that this episode has / had an exact grand total running of roughly two hours. With there only being five surviving episodes of the show yet this is something that doesn't hinder the episode altho it is something that does make it hard to work if this is a solid running time for the episode to have as the story is meant to be twelve episodes long and even then one of them might be considered a filler episode however as it is the episode does have the right amount of plot to cover this amount of running time. Yet this is where it does become hard to judge this episodes running time as while the episode as of right now doesn't use it's running time due to the fact that it doesn't take the time to fully develop it's plot all of that plot development very well could com in the episodes that we don't have with us which is something that would be understandable due to the fact that the episode in it's current form does spend alot of time bouncing from planet to planet yet in those missing episodes we very well could get scenes that add to the plot of the episode and that make it more complex then how it appears to be in it's current form. The same thing is also true for the episodes lack of character development as while we know for for a fact that the character of Katarina will never get alot of character development due to the fact that she dies quite early on into this episode Sara for all we know could get some character development which would make her death ear the end of episode twelve all the more tragic 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 really does mean that I gave 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 not that bad. Classic Doctor Who was never and will never be known for having great action in it especially when it comes to the middle of it's stories as they do usually save the big action set action pieces for the ending of the story which is fair enough as that's where you'd want to see alot of big action set pieces take place in the first place and yet here in this episode they do have one or two very small scale type action scenes take place both near the start of the story and near the end of episode ten. With the best action scene in these episodes being where a group of daleks light what might be there metallic claws on fire through the use of a flamethrower just too try and get into The Doctors and while granted that's not an action scene compared to the other action scene in this episode which actually is an action it comes off all the more better as that second action scene just boils down to a group of men hitting the Daleks with sticks before they all get killed which just isn't fun but the first one on the other hand does go to show you just how far that they are willing to go to access the TARDIS as they are perfectly willing to burn down an entire jungle just to get what they want with that being something that does make them feel all more scary as now we know that they won't think twice about killing you if it helps them the achieve there goals with the rest of the episodes action being just as good in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall it is so great to finally have episodes one and three of this episode back where it belongs and hopefully with the amount of goodwill that the BBC are earning from the Doctor Who fanbase for well done that they've handled the release of just these two episodes it might inspire other film collectors to check there attics or garage's and see if they have any missing Doctor Who episodes as this story just from these episodes is so good that it does need to be seen by all 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 an as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly an 8 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all f 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 Amazon . Co . U , Tardis . Wiki 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 Tardis . Wiki 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 really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Tardis . Wiki really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.