(14-09-2014 14:20 )circles_o_o_o Wrote: [ -> ]The old favourite nightmare of the monster under the bed, but a middle aged man just walks into a children's home in the middle of the night and into a little boy's bedroom without anyone kicking up a fuss. That's like the imaginary versus the real-world horrors, and I wonder if there was any deliberate thought behind that.
May be it was saying, may be just may be not all middle aged men are perverts and some just want to help.
Not to mention a fit bird comes into your bedroom and asks you to lie under the bed with her !!!
That's the "dream" you have when you wake up in a sticky patch .
(14-09-2014 20:55 )Regenerated Wrote: [ -> ]Encouraged a bit more now that I've seen Listen. Over the years I've found that the scarier (and therefore, more exciting episodes) are the kind where you see limited screen time of the Doctor himself. Instead he shows up in small segments and delivers some chilling messages or confronts an equally chilling entity, like in 'Blink'.
I thought this episode had those elements - a good old fashioned Doctor Who ghost story, the kind I'd been missing from Matt Smith's tenure - most of those seemed to be him blundering about waving the sonic screwdriver with some ridiculous, pathetic thing revealed to be the enemy that we're supposed to feel sorry for.
I think they'll be plenty of kids having sleepless nights after Listen. It was a bit overly fragmented aswell and the end of the universe segment at the end was a bit confusing, but the elements of the ghosts in the children's home was a very exciting theme. There's room for encouragement now then - so I can look forward to next week's 'Time Heist'. I hope the scary element continues - if it's there, then I find you enjoy Who more. After all, that's where the phrase hiding behind the sofa came from. 
The end of the universe, a place that the Doctor usually prevents the TARDIS from ever visiting, and Paradise where the 'ghosts' of his Victims/those who sacrifice themselves for the Doctor are found. To me this feels like the way the series is heading. Sometimes there is the obvious hint, sometimes barely a mention. The way they cut off the Doctor saying what he saw 'out there' was a nice touch which leaves an open thread.
I also hope that they do take the eventual running theme along the darker path, therefore have more of the scarier episodes and themes. I'm not sure if next weeks episode will be presented as ghostly or scary, it is a bank heist afterall, but the series does have the potential to be darker, overall.
Radio Times (that titan of sci-fi journalism
) is pretty lukewarm in its preview of Time Heist :
(which is probably a concern given that these days they only give it to the same die-hard reviewer that I assume is a fan who's gonna watch it anyway no matter what ?)
The killer line in the review is...
"...long before they breach the vault it's clear someone's forgotten the combination for what produces solid-gold Doctor Who"
Ouch !
Radio Times = not far wrong
Bit too obvious. Who the Architect is. The injections. The Big Bad for the episode. Great acting though from Peter Capaldi he really came across as dark and not caring about humanity at times. Keeley Hawes did look hot.
Doctor Who: designed by committee.
It lacks direction and vision, so far. It's been largely throw-away viewing. Peter Capaldi is good, but I don't know how long people will watch if the show doesn't have a clear identity.
I suppose I've kind of enjoyed the series, so far, if we discount the Robin Hood episode. The Doctor is still a good character. But really the show should be the best thing on free-to-air TV, it should make you look forward to the next instalment with excitement and it should capture the imagination, but it really hasn't done that.