![]() ![]() But what’s the betting the crowing over a “gay agenda” will start again? Smith and Corden’s double act allowed for some great comedic wordplay over their true relationship. I have said it before and shall again: I have always hated K-9 with a loathing far beyond rational. ![]() “Robot dog – not as much fun as I remember.” Me neither, Doctor. More recently of course, they were mentioned in The Almost People. On the subject of those blue envelopes, should we not have had another encounter with Canton Everett Delaware III by now?Ĭybermats previously appeared in Tomb of the Cybermen (1967), The Wheel in Space (1968) and Revenge of the Cybermen (1975). Did anybody else notice him borrow Sophie’s blue envelopes? So of course he thinks Stetsons are cool. The Doctor’s buddy Craig gives him the Stetson we saw in episode one. Can it actually be really straightforward? That it’s the adult River who kills The Doctor, and then gets sent straight to Stormage? No way. That continuity rush of an ending broke new boundaries of ridiculous camp, and jarred with the rest of the show. Whichever way, Moffat has an awful lot to satisfactorily tie up in just 45 minutes next week. Is it too corny to suggest that this question may just be: “Doctor who?” “Silence will fall when the question is asked.” The question is the oldest question of all, hidden in plain sight. Although if you were setting an episode in a department store, would the Autons not be the obvious choice of monster? Mysteries and questions Meanwhile Roberts, a writer steeped in Who history, understands that the show works by placing the horrific within the everyday. Having said all that about the Cybermen, the scene of Craig’s conversion was frightful in the other sense. How long has it been since he saw them? Have 200 years passed since the events of The God Complex? Or just 100? (A nod to the commenter to this blog who suggested that The Doctor spent 100 years looking for Melody?) Or, as I suggested last week, was he simply lying about his age? Fear factor ![]() Because you wouldn’t go there simply for a shopping trip would you? Amy has found work as a billboard model for Petrichor perfume – in a lovely nod to The Doctor’s Wife. It’s what the universe does for … fun.”Ī fun, fleeting and contractually necessary appearance from the Ponds, who are apparently also now living in Colcester. Their masters would be well advised to man up, with no apologies for the pun whatsoever. The gnashy-teeth Cybermats come off far deadlier. Neither did they have much of a strategy. These are supposed to be the second most deadly beings in the universe, and here they are, hiding out in a spaceship, or under a department store, snatching people one at a time and bested by the software bug of ‘human emotion’ that they could surely have ironed out by now. Once again, New Who has emasculated the Cybermen almost completely. Knowing digs to the budget aside, there’s no getting away from the giant silver humanoid in the room. The Doctor suggests to the Cybermen that six is not much of an invasion force. This can’t be a coincidence, since there’s another parent-child relationship out there in dire need of some resolution… “If they’ve got the teleport and they’re that evil then why haven’t they invaded yet?” And now here’s Craig, blowing the Cybermen up with love. There was Alex saving the day by accepting his alien son George. There was Ganger Jimmy accepting his own humanity by being a proper Dad. There was the pirate Captain Avery mending his ways. If this series does have an overarching theme then it’s parental love, or parental acceptance. Once again, Corden is immensely (unusually?) likeable as Craig, and his and Smith’s Laurel and Hardy act (as someone mentioned last week) is turning into a fun annual tradition. You can understand his decision after all that outrageous business with the Pond genealogy, he chooses to spend his final night in the universe revisiting the last real normality he knew. On another it’s a portentous blub-fest as The Doctor shows the best of himself on his march towards the grave. On one level it’s a gentle sequel to last year’s surprise hit The Lodger. And I’m not a Timelord.īut that’s what makes Gareth Roberts’ Closing Time something of a curiosity we’ve never had a standalone episode 12 before. What do you do when you when you know your day is coming? I definitely wouldn’t go and visit James Corden in Colchester, but then I’ve never been in that situation. “You destroyed them because of the deeply ingrained hereditary human trait to protect one’s own genes which in turn triggered a … yeah, you blew them up with love.” ![]()
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