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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 382997" data-attributes="member: 8">The Shakespeare Code is, well, precisely what it sounds like.The literary jokes are coming thick and fast as soon as the Tardis arrives on the scene. I was wishing very hard that they wouldn&#039;t do &quot;to be or not to be&quot; but alas, the temptation was too strong.The plot is simple and yet almost funny in its convolution i.e. the specifics of the building and the speech of the code that unlocks the galactic door of the witches&#039; prison.One thing that puzzles me about these kind of &quot;destroy all!&quot; villains - in this case a world of Blood And Bones - is that there doesn&#039;t seem to be a lot of profit.I mean, once you&#039;ve destroyed everything good and beautiful, what&#039;s left to do? Become King of Nothingness?The episode looks great and I usually enjoy cauldron-gazing witches, and I probably would have appreciated the story more if I had known beforehand that a big part of it is based on a holy grail of English literature.It is Doctor Who so it makes sense that &quot;the power of the word&quot; is used in a different way, but I feel that a story with two icons of this calibre deserved to be more wholesome (though it must be said that Shakespeare himself hinted at a threesome).I thoroughly enjoyed the third episode &quot;Gridlock&quot;. It&#039;s all very mysterious and the idea that all these characters have been on the road for years or even decades is simply mind-blowing.When Martha suggests that the Doctor is &quot;not alone&quot; (as the dying Face of Boe informed him) because of her&nbsp; companionship, he flat out denies it. Not that he could have confirmed it without turning the scene into a big schmaltz-fest but that doesn&#039;t change the fact that - in this moment - the new Who Girl is being stripped of all her dignity.It actually made me gasp a little.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 382997, member: 8"] The Shakespeare Code is, well, precisely what it sounds like. The literary jokes are coming thick and fast as soon as the Tardis arrives on the scene. I was wishing very hard that they wouldn't do "to be or not to be" but alas, the temptation was too strong. The plot is simple and yet almost funny in its convolution i.e. the specifics of the building and the speech of the code that unlocks the galactic door of the witches' prison. One thing that puzzles me about these kind of "destroy all!" villains - in this case a world of Blood And Bones - is that there doesn't seem to be a lot of profit. I mean, once you've destroyed everything good and beautiful, what's left to do? Become King of Nothingness? The episode looks great and I usually enjoy cauldron-gazing witches, and I probably would have appreciated the story more if I had known beforehand that a big part of it is based on a holy grail of English literature. It is Doctor Who so it makes sense that "the power of the word" is used in a different way, but I feel that a story with[I] two [/I] icons of this calibre deserved to be more wholesome (though it must be said that Shakespeare himself hinted at a threesome). I thoroughly enjoyed the third episode "Gridlock". It's all very mysterious and the idea that all these characters have been on the road for years or even decades is simply mind-blowing. When Martha suggests that the Doctor is "not alone" (as the dying Face of Boe informed him) because of [I]her [/I]companionship, he flat out denies it. Not that he could have confirmed it without turning the scene into a big schmaltz-fest but that doesn't change the fact that - in this moment - the new Who Girl is being stripped of all her dignity. It actually made me gasp a little. [/QUOTE]

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