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Lois Cameron explains why this series is much more than your average cosy period drama.
The last episode of this series sees Sherlock and Moriarty attempt to solve the final problem with devastating consequences.
With major cast changes afoot, Jacob Martin ponders whether Being Human can live up to its own scarily high standard.
“I’m the Doctor; I’m worse than everybody’s aunt!”
In which the Doctor, the TARDIS and the daleks get a trendy new makeover, yet Gok Wan is nowhere to be seen…
Even if we had wanted to dwell on Tennant’s departure, Moffat wasn’t having any of it. As the TARDIS hurtled out of the sky with Matt Smith clinging on for dear life, the whole show felt like it had regenerated; the Doctor may have been shaky on his feet at the beginning, but Smith wasn’t, oozing eccentric charm with not a pair of red Converse in sight (…still had that silly quiffy hair going on though).
With ‘The Eleventh Hour,’ Moffat demonstrated how to establish a childhood friendship between two characters - the Doctor and Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) - in the space of a mere fifty minutes. He also demonstrated how to drop a kissogram into a kid’s programme, delighting parents all over the country, I’m sure. The pacing of this story was spot-on, allowing the audience enough time to become familiar with several brand new characters and still providing enough danger and suspense with the elusive Prisoner Zero. If only the Doctor had whacked a bit of Polyfilla on that crack in Amy’s wall, it would have saved a lot of future problems…
Amy’s very first adventure in the TARDIS in ‘The Beast Below,’ was equally strong, even if I did suppress some cringing at the gun-toting, pseudo-cockney “I’m the bladdy queen, mayte!” Liz Ten of 29th Century Britain. This story revolved around the torture of the last Star Whale, and the British public’s democratic decision to ignore such torture – cynical, no? Patriotism prevailed more in ‘Victory of the Daleks,’ which, much like fish fingers and custard, contained two independently successful ingredients (World War Two and Daleks) that maybe shouldn’t have been combined. The story on the whole was good, but the rebooted variety pack of multicoloured daleks divided opinion. I think it makes the daleks more intimidating: not only will they exterminate me, but they’ll clash with my outfit, too?! Oh, the horror!
In another attempt to resurrect baddies, ‘The Time of Angels’/’Flesh and Stone’ brought back the Weeping Angels (now with added danger when viewed on a television screen!), but they were never going to be as terrifying as in ‘Blink.’ Nevertheless, it was thrill to see the return of River Song (Alex Kingston) still being as annoyingly secretive as ever, and there were some nail-biting moments when Amy navigated her way, blind, through a horde of Angels.
Toby Whithouse was definitely in his element when writing ‘The Vampires of Venice’ what with being the man responsible for ‘Being Human.’ Sadly, there was no deviation from the ‘Vampires Are Sexy’ rule of television, but ‘Vampires Are Bitey Sluggy Alien Things’ was close enough. This was Rory’s (Arthur Darvill) first adventure and didn’t he do well to come out of it alive? This didn’t last, as the next episode proved…
‘Amy’s Choice,’ is my current favourite of the series. It’s not just the army of alien OAPs that makes this story unique, but Simon Nye writes in many twists and turns that keep you guessing until the last second. Who is the Dream Lord (played by Toby Jones)? Which world is reality? Oooh, will Amy choose the Doctor over her fiancé (even when said fiancé disintegrates into a pile of sand)? Everything’s okay in the end, of course, but if you thought this episode was soppy, you haven’t seen the rest of the series…
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