12/23/2023 0 Comments Doctor who sleep no more reviewIn other words it's been done to death and for the show to steal this concept seems to be clutching at gimmicks. The problem with that is if you've one of these type of stories you have literally seen them all and we've been getting literally tons of these stories in cinema since the turn of the Century. The downside is that the production team try and go one further and present it in a lost footage format. It's sheer sci-fi B movie stuff but one that I and I imagine others can't get enough off. Here he comes up with the monsters creeping about dark corridors stalking humans plot. Gatiss is a very divisive writer but he probably writes at his best when he knows the little ones love to be terrified. Will NuWho be remembered in the way the classic show was with monsters coming out the sea, the one with the Mummies or the one with the man turning in to a murderous plant ? It'll be interesting to see how long Sleep No More will be remembered for That's not to say the episode is flawless. ![]() With Moffat we get something different which often feels like a parody of the show. When it returned ten years ago under the auspices of RTD we had DOCTOR WHO meets soap opera. By the mid Tom Baker era this type of story had faded and the show was never the same. How do you bring something new to the table ? In the case of DOCTOR WHO is there any need to radically change things ? For me the show that I grew up with was more often than not horror-lite with scary moments and scary monsters. I give plaudits for the brilliant ending 7/10 They could have easily been in Timeflight! I enjoyed it a fair bit, even though it left me a little confused. Issue for me was the monsters themselves I didn't love them, I wasn't sold on the the theory of them nor the execution. I loved the concept of sleep being abandoned in the future for corporate reasons, that was brilliantly imaginative. Some excellent elements to it for sure, it very much kept you on the edge of your seat, I applaud them for that. Did I notice no opening credits? Kept waiting for them, maybe it was to do with the running time, or to add to the whole found footage angle. His performance felt more like it belonged Inside no 9. Reece Shearsmith showed when he starred in the Widower last year that he's actually a really talented and capable actor, they didn't really make the best use of his talents I didn't think. The pace of the episode never let up for a single moment. ![]() ![]() There was lots of atmosphere it was well done. The beginning felt like a hybrid of Blair Witch and Event Horizon, I liked it a lot, the crew going into the unknown, the threat of shadowy monsters. A desperate battle for survival begins as the Doctor discovers what the creatures are and their purpose. Out of a pod comes Rassmussen, creator and man behind Morpheus. In that room are Morpheus pods, large caskets designed to induce all necessary sleep in just 5 minutes. ![]() Out of nowhere they're set upon by an unknown being, Deep Ando gets split from the other group who retreat into a locked room. The Doctor and Clara walk into a team of four armed investigators, Nagata, Chopra, Deep Ando and 474, sent in to discover what had happened. 38th Century and the Doctor and Clara land on a space station, which up until 24 hours ago had been fully manned, but now appears abandoned.
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