I think this episode proved beyond doubt that JLC utterly sucks at running down corridors, which is number two on the Who companion checklist after "having tits".
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They were Star Trek corridors though.... for some reason??
There is simply no rigour applied to the plots.
So, the Doc is taking them back to before it happened and, as a result Clara will forget what she read in the "Observer Book of Time Lords"
Yet the salvage crew remember enough to learn the lesson of their trite sibling rivalry - complete with very 2Oth century photo pinned to whatever the hell century wall they were inhabiting.
It's like there's no-one on the team willing to ask the difficult questions.
As has been said, too many ideas floating around, none of them developed properly.
For my money a human who thinks he's an android is a nice twist on the usual 'human discovers he's a robot' sketch - well worth a storyline.
Instead it's chucked in with all the other ingredients into the half-baked fruit-cake that is Dr Who.
And next week we're back in Victorian England.
Obviously trying to get use out of the costumes.
Pah!
One of the rooms was a bit Harry Potter with its encyclopedia bottles. I can't really remember the other rooms they were so bland.
Decent episode, though the salvage crew were very bland and not needed (plus very poorly acted); should have kept it a two hander, plus weird monsters chasing them.
JLC is a significant improvement over the last bint in as a much as her acting range extends beyond sulking to flirting, but she is still too perky to convince in the assistants's key role of conveying a sense of fear to the audience; the assistant's other role, of giving the Doctor someone to explain the plot to, has of course become redundant.
Quote: chipolata @ April 28 2013, 11:00 AM BSTOne of the rooms was a bit Harry Potter with its encyclopedia bottles.
One could wish that the writers had read less JK Rowling and more Harlan Ellison.
I still can't get into this series. I just watched the most recent episode but don't know what happened really. Hope it improves soon.
Quote: Tursiops @ April 28 2013, 11:13 AM BSTJLC is a significant improvement over the last bint in as a much as her acting range extends beyond sulking to flirting, but she is still too perky to convince in the assistants's key role of conveying a sense of fear to the audience; the assistant's other role, of giving the Doctor someone to explain the plot to, has of course become redundant.
One could wish that the writers had read less JK Rowling and more Harlan Ellison.
You have no mouth and yet you scream?
The writers need one of these on their wall...
http://bitcast-a-sm.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/wp/wp-content/images/Time-Travel-Flow-Chart.jpg
Quote: Marc P @ April 28 2013, 10:43 AM BSTThey were Star Trek corridors though.... for some reason??
I think set designers need 'partitions' about every 10 to 12 feet, so that they can actually build it in a studio ?
Quote: billwill @ April 28 2013, 3:25 PM BSTI think set designers need 'partitions' about every 10 to 12 feet, so that they can actually build it in a studio ?
In shape Bill dear boy, angled off triangles... you are a maths man, probably know the terms triangularomboid or something.
Quote: Marc P @ April 28 2013, 6:56 PM BSTIn shape Bill dear boy, angled off triangles... you are a maths man, probably know the terms triangularomboid or something.
Yeh, yeh, but when you have to put a partition every 10 feet and you have to pretend to have side corridors and you want to hide the stage lighting, and you don't want it to look like a modern hospital, .... you end up with triangulated arches...
I think... 
Quote: Marc P @ April 28 2013, 10:44 PM BST
Denny Crane!
Many years ago, that corridor shape was suggested as being a suitable shape for doors, because human anatomy isn't rectangular, it's skinier at the head and the feet.