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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 392040" data-attributes="member: 8">Are you still rewatching everything from the 1960s?The ninth episode called HIDE starts with a couple that investigates paranormal activity in a mansion with a dark history.Naturally, the Doctor has to stick his nose into it which means that the original set-up is going to be turned upside down. I thought the guest characters were interesting enough to make it a Doctor-lite episode, like the BLINK story.The addition of a person from the future and also an alien love story makes it look a bit crowded, but Clara makes an interesting point about all earthlings in the Doctor&#039;s travels being ghosts.It&#039;s interesting that the next episode JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE TARDIS is actually a much better Haunted House story.The Tardis is not some cuddly Pixar vehicle because when it&#039;s attacked it will stop at nothing to protect itself, and saying &quot;it&#039;s bigger on the inside&quot; is the understatement of the century.The damage caused by a salvage crew (just when the Doctor allowed Clara to experiment with the console) causes the ship to leak history which sends all characters on a psychedelic run &amp; escape mission while being attacked by future zombie versions of themselves.It reminds me of Wonka&#039;s chocolate factory which is not an evil place at all, but it can do very spooky things in order to confront children with their bad behaviour.I like the way the Doctor tricked the ruthless spacecombers into becoming his rescue team, and then there&#039;s the hilarity of the brother aptly named Tricky who had been tricked into thinking he was an android.The solution looks a bit like a half-baked running time casualty and they made it just in time before the end credits. I think the Tardis was important enough for a two-part story.[MEDIA=youtube]4RQhKQKzduA[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 392040, member: 8"] Are you still rewatching everything from the 1960s? The ninth episode called HIDE starts with a couple that investigates paranormal activity in a mansion with a dark history. Naturally, the Doctor has to stick his nose into it which means that the original set-up is going to be turned upside down. I thought the guest characters were interesting enough to make it a Doctor-lite episode, like the BLINK story. The addition of a person from the future and also an alien love story makes it look a bit crowded, but Clara makes an interesting point about all earthlings in the Doctor's travels being ghosts. It's interesting that the next episode JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE TARDIS is actually a much better Haunted House story. The Tardis is not some cuddly Pixar vehicle because when it's attacked it will stop at nothing to protect itself, and saying "it's bigger on the inside" is the understatement of the century. The damage caused by a salvage crew (just when the Doctor allowed Clara to experiment with the console) causes the ship to leak history which sends all characters on a psychedelic run & escape mission while being attacked by future zombie versions of themselves. It reminds me of Wonka's chocolate factory which is not an evil place at all, but it can do very spooky things in order to confront children with their bad behaviour. I like the way the Doctor tricked the ruthless spacecombers into becoming his rescue team, and then there's the hilarity of the brother aptly named Tricky who had been tricked into thinking he was an android. The solution looks a bit like a half-baked running time casualty and they made it just in time before the end credits. I think the Tardis was important enough for a two-part story. [MEDIA=youtube]4RQhKQKzduA[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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