It was okay…I think they could have cut out the children completely and it would have been even better. Just have the story about the Doctor and Clara trying to find a missing student who may have some connection to the forest – short and sweet. I thought the child actors did rather well for what was given to them, but their presence (specifically the sitcomesque banter scenes) bogged down the story too much. I was also uninterested in the final scene. It felt rushed, similar to the ending of Robot of Sherwood. I hate to sound nitpicky, too, but the CGI took me out of it a bit. You can get away with bad CGI if you have the monsters partially hidden, or if it serves a specific purpose (making the Boneless in Flatline look odd and not quite there), but here I feel I was expected to ‘ooh’ and ‘ahh’ at the wolves and tiger, which I did not do in the slightest. On the positive side, the set up was good and I was legitimately interested in the mystery surrounding the little girl. I just felt it could have been so much more.
