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WATCH ALONG | DOCTOR WHO | 7x8 | The Rings of Akhaten (Patreon)

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2023-03-24 14:02:53
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2023-09
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Comments

MattyIce777

A consistent theme of Clara in these first 2 episodes is that she is excellent with children. She's a governess in Bells of Saint John, and I love her interactions with Merry. And even Victorian Clara was beloved by the family she was governess for. She has an ability to inspire kids, a quality she shares with The Doctor.

Steven Cooper

This episode has its problems, with subpar direction and a script that is structurally a bit of a mess. Everything is very slow-paced, and the critical moment when Merry's song is disrupted is badly mishandled, totally failing to explain whether it happened by accident (due to her making a mistake), or whether the sleeping god somehow caused it (as the Doctor later guesses). At the start, the story bumbles around aimlessly for almost ten minutes before the plot actually gets going. All the stuff with the vampire creature threatening to escape its cage becomes redundant when it turns out to just be an "alarm clock" for the real sleeping god. The first part of the climax falls flat when the creature manages to absorb the Doctor's memories with no apparent effect on him. And the way the ending is in such a hurry to forget about Akhaten and get back to Earth (without so much as a brief goodbye scene) is irritating. But it has such an unusual lyrical feel (it's not so much an adventure as a fable about the importance of memories and stories) that it's still very much worth watching. The profusion of different creature designs is eye-catching (even if they end up being nothing more than background local color). Jenna Coleman continues to shine as Clara, the young actor playing Merry is really good, and Matt's performance during the big speech (coupled with one of Murray Gold's best pieces of music ever composed for the show) is a wonderful moment.