Parallax wrote:On another topic: What did the Doctor call the Metabelis III crystal? A subset of the Eye of Harmony?
I've checked on tardis data core, according to that, yes.
The Romulan Republic wrote:But the TARDIS has moved on its own hasn't it? Maybe it helps to have a pilot, but I don't think its essential.
I think she needs someone to deal with crises. Depending on how much she knows about the future, she may know the universe will end if the Doctor doesn't save it. And she can't save it herself because her ability to interact with other things is limited. So she needs a Time Lord to deal with that crap.
Also, the Doctor can repair her when she breaks.
When did she fly herself? If she didn't need clara for whatever reason, why did it ask her to come onboard? Why not just fly off? Either she needs someone to give her orders to do anything or clara's bells of st john computer-brain must have helped somehow.
Parallax wrote:On another topic: What did the Doctor call the Metabelis III crystal? A subset of the Eye of Harmony?
I've checked on tardis data core, according to that, yes.
They were two seperate things. The part of the Eye of Harmony was the light blue eye shaped thing mounted on the pole, while the Blue Crystal was mounted in the head harness to help her focus her psychic powers
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I actually don't know what to give this episode. If the monster had been left as simply a monster, this would probably be a 4, if not a 5. However, the forced romance thing at the end really irked me, since it was so rushed, and just left me with a blah feeling about the episode. It really should have been 5ish to 7ish minutes longer, with some more set-up throughout it for the love thing.
That love thing kind of felt lke an afterthought to me. I thought the episode had finished before that, the final bit was just an amusing extra in my mind.
Looking forward to the episode where Clara meets herself. Pretty sure the projection was a hint of things to come.
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I will listen to Ivanova.
I will not ignore Ivanova's recommendations. Ivanova is God.
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i really liked it. Some scary bits, some awesome vista bits (we're all ghosts to you!) and a nice twist.
Yes the twist was rushed, but what else did they have to say? It just flipped the entire episode upside down, making you rethink everything that had happened. Great stuff.
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4 - Good episode that had an interesting premise but some of the fore-shadowing execution ruined it
The Clara / TARDIS element is getting a bit tedious with the obvious attempts to build suspense and this episode pretty much shit over itself to get to the resolve because they spent way too much time with the Clara mystery subplot.
Parallax wrote:On another topic: What did the Doctor call the Metabelis III crystal? A subset of the Eye of Harmony?
I've checked on tardis data core, according to that, yes.
The Romulan Republic wrote:But the TARDIS has moved on its own hasn't it? Maybe it helps to have a pilot, but I don't think its essential.
I think she needs someone to deal with crises. Depending on how much she knows about the future, she may know the universe will end if the Doctor doesn't save it. And she can't save it herself because her ability to interact with other things is limited. So she needs a Time Lord to deal with that crap.
Also, the Doctor can repair her when she breaks.
When did she fly herself? If she didn't need clara for whatever reason, why did it ask her to come onboard? Why not just fly off? Either she needs someone to give her orders to do anything or clara's bells of st john computer-brain must have helped somehow.
Wasn't their an episode in season six when she left on her own?
But Doctor Who doesn't really have continuity so who knows.
Surlethe wrote:There were serious pacing issues in the last ten minutes.
Agree, the first half was well written and directed; the 70s ambience was nicely done. The second half was ok in principle but somewhat clumsy in execution. Frankly I'd have prefered more characterisation/background on time travelling pioneer woman (or even the monster) vs the Doctor being stranded and TARDIS getting involved.
