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649On Sunday, November 15, 2015 at 8:47:32 AM UTC-8, Pudentame wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Nov 2015 12:43:00 +0000, Bill Jillians
> <
willaim.j...@btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> >In message <
darbeg...@mid.individual.net>, Mike M
> ><
mi...@xenocyte.com> writes
> >>On 15/11/2015 07:02, Bill Jillians wrote:
> >>> In message <RKN1y.178527$L65.1...@fx47.am4>, Stephen Wilson
> >>> <
stephen.wils...@ntlworld.com> writes
> >>>> So 16 years after the Blair Witch Project, Doctor Who tries doing a
> >>>> story in
> >>>> the same style. Perhaps it can be done effectively. But not this time.
> >>>>
> >>>> I don't know about "sleep no more", but I started drifting off within
> >>>> about
> >>>> 10 minutes. Maybe there's a story lurking in there somewhere, then again,
> >>>> maybe not.
> >>>>
> >>>> I think most of the cast were sleepwalking through the entire episode,
> >>>> and
> >>>> the Doctor and Clara were pretty superfluous. The only character of
> >>>> note was
> >>>> Rassmussen but even he was rather lacklustre.
> >>>>
> >>>> OK, so there were no moon sized eggs in this one, or sentient forests,
> >>>> but
> >>>> (if you haven't guessed) this one left me distinctly underwhelmed.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Good .... I hope you don't mind if I refer to your review in my review.
> >>> I haven't actually seen this yet.
> >>>
> >>
> >>I watched it but, like Stephen, found it difficult to concentrate. I'll
> >>have to watch it again before being able to write a commentary.
> >>
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> >Well I've seen it now. Never seen an episode on which the Doctor was a
> >patsy and evil prevailed. It was a horror story with an interesting
> >ending for this show. Seem to remember they might have stolen the
> >ending from a recentish Hollywood gore fest.
> >
> >I enjoyed it partly because it left more questions unanswered than it
> >addressed.
> What about final episode of Patrick Troughton's first serial - The
> Power of the Daleks, where at the end as the TARDIS is dematerializing
> the supposedly dead Dalek's eye-stalk lights up?
>
> Hell, any episode featuring the Daleks ... they always lose, but they
> always come back.
Victory of the Daleks: An entire Dalek ship escpes from the Doctor.