![]() It was nice that after 52 years the show cast an openly transgender actress for a role. The Doctor: "Well, that's how they roll in the 38th century." You can never unsee it."įull names of the crew members include Jagganth Dalkl-Nagata, Haruka Deep-Ando, Osamu Alml-Chopra while 474 was revealed to be only five years old and genetically grown.Ĭlara: "Have your brought me to a restaurant?" Rassmussen (to audiences): "You must not watch this. It's metatextual but not in a good way whatsoever.įor the first time, there was no opening credit sequence and very little in the way of music. Clara might have got to name the creature and briefly get caught into one of the sleeping pods but you literally could've done this episode without her and it wouldn't have made a different (similar to Amy/Rory in Night Terrors) and the Doctor's greatest contribution this week was to point out how little the plot made sense. Also none of them survived, except Nagata but that was laid out to us earlier in the episode.Įven the Doctor and Clara weren't at their best in this one either. Chopra, pretty as he was (something the episode was pleased with commenting on) came close to showing some characterisation due to his opposition to the Morpheus Machine but the Grunt known as 474 (Bethany Black great but sadly wasted in this role), Geordie group leader Nagata and some bloke named Deep Ando were fairly underused and left little impression as a result. Points for it's audacity but it still felt a wholly unsatisfying note to end this episode.Īs for the crew - unlike Toby Whithouse's two parter earlier this series, this lot weren't as well fleshed out to be honest. The reveal at the end of Rassmussen's true plans and the ambiguity of the ending was a mixed bag for me. The Sandmen themselves looked a little reminiscent of the Time creatures from Journey To The Centre Of The TARDIS and while they exuded a certain degree of menace, we've had better monsters this series - mainly returning ones if I'm being truthful. He invented a machine that disgusted the Doctor, Clara and one member of the rescue crew, caused the Sandmen to come to life and seemed more than okay with humanity being wiped out by the creatures as well. ![]() I have to admit that while Shearsmith seemed tailor made for this role, not once in this episode was Rassmussen given a moment to really innovative as a villain though. Of course this dilemma didn't particularly bother Morpheus's inventor, Gagen Rassmussen, as played by The League Of Gentlemen actor, Reece Shearsmith. The Morpheus Machine allowed people to take a snooze of five minutes, which equated to a month's worth of sleep but the downside was that the mucus you get from sleep would result in Sandmen. I have to admit, the concept of having sleep taken away from people is a pretty nasty one and kind of perfect for this show but it's also the sort of concept that Steven Moffat himself would've went to town with while Gatiss's script struggled with it. ![]() The Doctor and Clara ended up on the Le Verrier space station, only to find that the crew were dead, a rescue mission had landed and there were a bunch of creepy-ish looking creatures that Clara decided to dub Sandmen for fairly obvious reasons. I neither love it nor hate it and technically that's how I feel about this episode, compared to some of the less favourable reactions to it online. For me, it's a genre in which I don't particularly have strong feelings for. Mark Gatiss for his efforts genuinely tried to do something out of his usual comfort zone for this show and while that alone is almost admirable, it was a venture that did not pay off.įirst of all - found footage isn't exactly a new concept and it's certainly one that can seriously divide audiences too. ![]() If there were ever an unwise set of words to end an episode of well, anything on, it would be those ones. ![]() Rassmussen (to audience): "I did tell you not to watch." ![]()
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