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The Bells of Saint John
Overall, this episode was good. It's Moffat, so it's bound to be soaring above all the filler episodes to come in between this one and the last episode to be shown in May. The episode was submerged in lots of "magical hacking" handwaving that nobody without mad skillz can argue with, and there were inconsistencies, but the awesome dialogue is back, and that makes up for most of it.
Here's a list of griefs:
Yes, "you don't know where you are" - Jesus Christ!
Why the alien symbols? These guys weren't aliens at all. Why not just have a connection called simply "Internet"?
Why do they operate in this manner at all? The theme of hacking aside, they send out these "Spoonheads" to people who connect to Wifi on their computer, because their the internet connection of their computers act as a sort of relay, but here's a thought: Why not simply install a direct transmitter into these Spoonheads, or at least a Wifi connection, and then just go pick off anybody living alone?
Operating Twitter is portrayed as something that only leet internet users know of. That's like an advanced science, and a sign of a computer genius.
The scene where The Doctor rides out of the Tardis on a motorcycle, the doors close behind them from shot to shot. They don't even look back at the doors. They just leave the doors to the Tardis wide open in front of a crowd, and don't look back. That's just asking for somebody to sneak inside!
We are meant to believe that Doctor Who can remotely program a robot that he just encountered, to ride an anti-grav motorcycle up a skyscraper, and then have a natural conversation with the leader.
The biggest grief I have, is that the Spoonheads are really, really slow, and don't affect The Doctor one bit. Every scene with a Spoonhead, involved their targets staring mesmerized and frozen, as the Spoonheads slowly, slowly turn to face them, even in the case of Miss Kislet, who is very familiar with what they do. Unless we're talking about an indirect aim, like a wifi signal bouncing off walls, I could circle one of these things for hours.
There was a big emo-fuck when Miss Kislet was revealed to only have been a child at her abduction and conversion, having been a slave her whole natural life-span. That's pretty inhuman.
The Doctor naturally wants Clara to come with him, but I don't think it's because she's a thrilling character. It's because he knows that if she doesn't get to see the stars, she is going to end up on the Alaska, to be turned into a Dalek. She's going to end up on the Alaska anyway, or else she won't be there to save The Doctor, but at least there's a way to compensate for that fate, by having her die after having completed her life's dream. He might very well be doing this to mourn her death.
Overall, this episode was good. It's Moffat, so it's bound to be soaring above all the filler episodes to come in between this one and the last episode to be shown in May. The episode was submerged in lots of "magical hacking" handwaving that nobody without mad skillz can argue with, and there were inconsistencies, but the awesome dialogue is back, and that makes up for most of it.
Here's a list of griefs:
Yes, "you don't know where you are" - Jesus Christ!
Why the alien symbols? These guys weren't aliens at all. Why not just have a connection called simply "Internet"?
Why do they operate in this manner at all? The theme of hacking aside, they send out these "Spoonheads" to people who connect to Wifi on their computer, because their the internet connection of their computers act as a sort of relay, but here's a thought: Why not simply install a direct transmitter into these Spoonheads, or at least a Wifi connection, and then just go pick off anybody living alone?
Operating Twitter is portrayed as something that only leet internet users know of. That's like an advanced science, and a sign of a computer genius.
The scene where The Doctor rides out of the Tardis on a motorcycle, the doors close behind them from shot to shot. They don't even look back at the doors. They just leave the doors to the Tardis wide open in front of a crowd, and don't look back. That's just asking for somebody to sneak inside!
We are meant to believe that Doctor Who can remotely program a robot that he just encountered, to ride an anti-grav motorcycle up a skyscraper, and then have a natural conversation with the leader.
The biggest grief I have, is that the Spoonheads are really, really slow, and don't affect The Doctor one bit. Every scene with a Spoonhead, involved their targets staring mesmerized and frozen, as the Spoonheads slowly, slowly turn to face them, even in the case of Miss Kislet, who is very familiar with what they do. Unless we're talking about an indirect aim, like a wifi signal bouncing off walls, I could circle one of these things for hours.
There was a big emo-fuck when Miss Kislet was revealed to only have been a child at her abduction and conversion, having been a slave her whole natural life-span. That's pretty inhuman.
The Doctor naturally wants Clara to come with him, but I don't think it's because she's a thrilling character. It's because he knows that if she doesn't get to see the stars, she is going to end up on the Alaska, to be turned into a Dalek. She's going to end up on the Alaska anyway, or else she won't be there to save The Doctor, but at least there's a way to compensate for that fate, by having her die after having completed her life's dream. He might very well be doing this to mourn her death.
