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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 394837" data-attributes="member: 8">I have yet to discover her, she might be a person from the (my) future, like River Song.Every time I read her name it immediately conjures up the image of Scarlett Johansson, I don&#039;t know if there is a connection or not.Could there be something more&nbsp;&nbsp; important than Pam Ewing&#039;s or Richard Channing&#039;s motives for doing what they did and didn&#039;t?That&#039;s why I&#039;m always very wary of behind-the-scenes featurettes about films. And while I usually forget all about that when I watch the film again, it&#039;s just much easier when you don&#039;t have to forget it at all.Meanwhile, I&#039;ve arrived at episode 10, just the beginning of it, and the nickname &quot;local knowledge&quot; was funny enough to look it up. I couldn&#039;t find anything except for what I expected it to be but somehow that makes the Doctor&#039;s nickname for Rigsey even more...I don&#039;t know. Something.The second story of this series is also a double episode but personally I don&#039;t think it was worth it.It&#039;s OK but nothing special, it all looks like stuff that had been scrapped from previous scripts, however, I had not expected the story to end with an explanation so incomprehensible that it ruined all the fun it did have to offer retrospectively.Everything would have been fine if he hadn&#039;t said anything about the ghost which was a hologram ghost because blablabla.Then we get the Vikings episode which apparently was a great opportunity to show that the Doctor can translate baby language. Please, no, never again.As with the battle against the Fisher King, the Doctor gives a song and dance about the danger of the ripple effects and the disastrous waves BUT he&#039;s going to fight the future anyway because it&#039;s important! The Twelfth Doctor has mellowed significantly in his second series, but this kind of melodramatic bombast doesn&#039;t suit him at all.I felt myself slightly defeated but continued watching, a very wise decision because the Zygons story proved to be a cracker. I kinda wish it had been three episodes.The cinematography, the repulsive creatures, the continuation from the previous Zygon story, the two boxes with nothing special in it (but no-one can remember that), Clara&#039;s bizarre world inside the Zygon pod - it&#039;s all fantastic.Excitingly, it&#039;s followed by another gem of an episode, SLEEP NO MORE.Who needs aliens when people themselves continue to come up with the most bizarre and creepy inventions.[ATTACH=full]52372[/ATTACH]Even something as simle as a telephone, to communicate directly with another person who&#039;s not in the same room, still bewilders me.The sandmen story is straightforward and (almost) self-explanatory, but it&#039;s filmed in such way that it still looks very twisted. The final diary scene is properly horrifc and for a moment I feared that Doctor Who was doing an unexpected 3D stunt and have the hand &quot;reach out&quot; through my computer screen. Great stuff.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 394837, member: 8"] I have yet to discover her, she might be a person from the (my) future, like River Song. Every time I read her name it immediately conjures up the image of Scarlett Johansson, I don't know if there is a connection or not. Could there be something [I]more[/I] important than Pam Ewing's or Richard Channing's motives for doing what they did and didn't? That's why I'm always very wary of behind-the-scenes featurettes about films. And while I usually forget all about that when I watch the film again, it's just much easier when you don't have to forget it at all. Meanwhile, I've arrived at episode 10, just the beginning of it, and the nickname "local knowledge" was funny enough to look it up. I couldn't find anything except for what I expected it to be but somehow that makes the Doctor's nickname for Rigsey even more...I don't know. Something. The second story of this series is also a double episode but personally I don't think it was worth it. It's OK but nothing special, it all looks like stuff that had been scrapped from previous scripts, however, I had not expected the story to end with an explanation so incomprehensible that it ruined all the fun it did have to offer retrospectively. Everything would have been fine if he hadn't said anything about the ghost which was a hologram ghost because blablabla. Then we get the Vikings episode which apparently was a great opportunity to show that the Doctor can translate baby language. Please, no, never again. As with the battle against the Fisher King, the Doctor gives a song and dance about the danger of the ripple effects and the disastrous waves [I]BUT he's going to fight the future anyway because it's important![/I] The Twelfth Doctor has mellowed significantly in his second series, but this kind of melodramatic bombast doesn't suit him at all. I felt myself slightly defeated but continued watching, a very wise decision because the Zygons story proved to be a cracker. I kinda wish it had been three episodes. The cinematography, the repulsive creatures, the continuation from the previous Zygon story, the two boxes with nothing special in it (but no-one can remember that), Clara's bizarre world inside the Zygon pod - it's all fantastic. Excitingly, it's followed by another gem of an episode, SLEEP NO MORE. Who needs aliens when people themselves continue to come up with the most bizarre and creepy inventions. [ATTACH type="full"]52372[/ATTACH] Even something as simle as a telephone, to communicate directly with another person who's not in the same room, still bewilders me. The sandmen story is straightforward and (almost) self-explanatory, but it's filmed in such way that it still looks very twisted. The final diary scene is properly horrifc and for a moment I feared that Doctor Who was doing an unexpected 3D stunt and have the hand "reach out" through my computer screen. Great stuff. [/QUOTE]

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