Bewitched, Bothered, Bewildered

Saturday saw one of the most ambitious Doctor Who episodes since the anniversary Five Doctors special all those decades ago and what a stunning episode The Stolen Earth turned out to be!

I’ll be honest, there were flaws in the episode which I will come to in the spoilery segment and yet I’m still going to do that one thing that many people hate about me…I will say that this has well and truly lodged itself into my list of favourite episodes, despite it’s flaws. I know, I’m illogical but there’s the truth.

So without further ado…
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Around seventeen years ago I remember watching a Children’s BBC show called ‘Dark Season‘ which revolved around the investigation of a young schoolgirl’s into her school’s strange benefactor. Bleached blonde and mysterious, the man who I now know is called Mr Eldritch turns up one day and begins to distribute computers to all of the pupils, apparently out of the goodness of his heart.

It was a short two series show, each series comprising only three episodes yet I still remember it quite well. It seems my subconscious does as well, as I just discovered after all these years that the show was written by Russell T. Davies and starred a very young Kate Winslet.

It really is a small world.

In the second half of Steven Moffat’s two parter we finally got a full on tour de force of the kind of psychological horror he’s famous for but which was sadly lacking in last week’s episode. I have to say this episode left me feeling disturbed in ways that his previous stories haven’t and this time I loved every minute of it.

So here we go again, spoilers beyond the cut.
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What?

What!?

What!!?

The Doctor’s favourite conclusion to each series pretty much sums up my whole reaction to tonight episode, Silence in the Library, though not in a bad way. While in total I don’t think this latest offering from the new show runner Steven Moffatt was quite as scary as “Are you my Mummy?” (or for that matter, ‘Blink‘ and ‘The Lady in the Fireplace‘) when it really got going at the end it looked like having similar promise.

So without further ado…on with the spoilers. Allons-y Alonzo!
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