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Overall an okay episode.

Best quote of the season to date ” Tell me or I’ll smack you so hard you regenerate”
I actually laughed out loud. Brilliant!

The episode itself was a nice feelgood “pro -life” journey with some rather faulty pseudo science to carry it.

The kid floating… and nothing else, not even pens or headsets because “it moved”. Terrible.

The spider bacteria. Just “No”
They served no purpose other than to be confusing. They’re bacteria, so why the webs? They’re spiders, so why did disinfectant kill it instantly. They love the warmth but hate the sun, they multiply in the dark caves but spin webs on the doors and all along the walls but don’t multiply there. I could go on. Suffice to say “No”

You know that if it’s in the egg or outside it the mass is still the same right? So they go to a beach, right on the sandy shore. Where the massive tides are destroying the world and all life is threatened … and watch from the edges of the lapping waves… on the side of the planet facing the moon. Odd?

Then creature the size of the moon laid a new egg/moon. Total time to lay an egg a few thousand miles across and then vanish into the universe: less than 1 monologue.

Suspension of disbelief : ON

Still, one of the better episodes.

This would have been better with Pink along. It could have served to reinforce the relationship that supposedly exists and would have taking some of the frenzied pace out of the last episode where it all felt too rushed.
Plus the kid contributed nothing.

I just hope this is all going somewhere.

7th.

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What an absolute rubbish episode.
Third in a row.

1. Somehow magically we are expected to believe that Clara met the doctor as a child and her grabbing his foot premeditated the myth through the whole of humanity? Even though he’s not human but somehow by osmosis his fear becomes an irrational fear throughout time and space? Weak.

2. If the fear is nothing at all, what was knocking and pierced the air valve in the future and what was under the sheet? What wrote “Listen”?

3. How would the doctor (assuming it was him) know what the toy soldier was, where it originated and who to give it to through his 800+ years of travels. How does it get around the rest of the soldier set already being in the boys room and not being a million year old piece of crappy plastic?

I would have rather had the story about something other than the doctor and his ‘imagination’ and perceived fears.
It would have been nice to have an aside story where the gallifrean children take time hops into the future and scare people for fun. The hand under the bed is a rite of passage of sorts.
Or perhaps make the hand under the bed a chameleon creature.
Or more of the Silence. The hand would be remembered but the sight of them wouldn’t, thus the blanket to hide it’s appearance. A perfect hiding creature.

The whole barn thing with the ‘wants to be a time lord’ comments? Really?
If the gallifrean parents have this ‘dad touch’ he wouldn’t be out there in the first place. This is a terrible plot device – hopefully it leads somewhere.

The Last human in the universe? When the doctors already been to the end of time and met the master and the devolved men?
End of the earth – nope. He’s been there too.
The last human? Nope – she’s a skin sketch pad.
The last plot device to deliver an undecipherable message about fear not being real but then making it real – yep – nail on the head.

Here’s hoping it improves.

Seventh.

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