Just caught up with the latest episode of the sixth series of Doctor Who, The God Complex, which was almost a homage to The Shining, especially with its set design.
The story starts with the Doctor, Amy and Rory having landed the TARDIS in what appears to be a big hotel with winding corridors, not to mention endless staircases. The Doctor soon comes into contact with three humans and an alien who have been captured and lured into the hotel as well, but the hotel appears to be just a fake as the Doctor believes they are on an alient planet. To make matters worse, there is a monster lurking around which has been possessing the other occupants of the hotel and feeding of their worst fears, which they see realised in the hotel rooms. But the Doctor does his best to put his mega troubleshooting to the fore and try and get to the bottom of this nasty dilemma.
This was a fairly entertaining episode, which starts off strong with the creepy theme of the unknown monster lurking, and the images akin to The Shining with the long narrow corridors, and the peoples fears behind the doors. On the casting side David Walliams making his first appearance as the alien Gibbs (some cool facial make-up there!) who is a compulsive coward and comes from a planet which has been overthrown so many times, and he gives one of the best lines of the story "where we are from, we have a saying: resistance is exhausting!". The rest of the cast are also fine with their small roles as they are slowly taken over by the beast, which turns out to be a minotaur, that is closely related to the Nimon, from the Tom Baker story, The Horns of Nimon. This story also borrows from a few other stories also, with references from The Curse of Fenric where the Doctor makes Amy break her faith in him to ensure the minotaur doesn't take her over, as well as the Weeping Angels from the episodes "Blink", "Flesh and Blood" and "The Time of Angels".
However I wasn't overly impressed with the resolution of the story as I felt in a way the conclusion was a bit of an anti-climax. But the last scene between Amy and Rory more than made up for that, as the Doctor drops them off at their home, and not only that he gives Rory the keys to his favourite car (not sure which one!). The Doctor fears for Amy and Rory that if they continue to travel with him, he might end up getting them killed, so let's them go as he takes off in the TARDIS, once again, alone. But of course you do very much get the feeling that the Doctor hasn't seen the last of Amy and Rory (well for a start they have been confirmed to appear in series seven!) and it won't be before long they will be back in the picture.
So the next episode promises to be a good one as the Doctor revists a familiar face, Craig (played by James Corden) whom he previously lodged with in The Lodger episode. In the episode the Doctor of course encounters one of his oldest foes, the Cybermen, so it will be good to see his old enemy back in the show. Also let's not forget at the start of the sixth series we saw the Doctor 200 years into his future die at the hands of a figure in a spacesuit, and he dies before he can regenerate. So will this be the end of the Doctor??? Well most likely not, as they said in the fifth series, time can be written, even in David Tennant's swansong "The End of Time" he faced certain death, but still managed to regenerate into who we see now as the Doc. So its just another plot device to keep us guessing what will happen to the Doctor, whatever happens we haven't seen the end of the Time Lord yet.
Welly welly well, that's quite enough fer now. More Who to follow, as I was to get The Day of the Daleks DVD, don't you hate waiting on post to come???!
Anyway that's another blog entry done.....
For now....
Tarra.....
That's me now...
Seriously...
OK that's enough! :-)
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