By Steven Moffat
“I am The Doctor. I’m
coming to find you and I’ll never ever stop.”
After last
week’s emotion story Face the Raven we are given a story that is absolutely
different and something we haven’t seen in Doctor Who for sometime a
companionless story. Well this story could be called Doctor Who meets
Groundhogs Day because that’s how it felt towards the end when it became
repetitive and dragged out a bit too long watching him punch the diamond wall
over and over again. The normal 45
minutes would have sufficed and some of the Groundhog Day sequences could have
been cut down a bit. That’s my opinion
and it seems I’m in the minority here as lots of fans thought it was
great. But I did get what they were doing
and what tale they were referencing if you Google How Long is Eternity? you’ll have the source for why The Doctor
was punching the diamond and why it took
2 million years which was pretty clever in a way but I still thought that it
was way too reminiscent of Groundhog Day instead of a fable but the fable is
where it comes from.
Now on
first watching I did not enjoy Heaven Sent as much as everyone else going crazy
about it on social media did. But
watching it again knowing what is going on and what will happen I did enjoy it
a bit more. But I still had problems
with it. Now when the castle resets
every time The Doctor dies and pulls the reset button to send him back to the
beginning with a new version of him from the teleporter everything is supposed
to reset. Then why is there a new set of
clothes for him then to change into when he is all wet from jumping into the
water? How come the diamond wall isn’t
reset also? You would think it would not
be a cave every time he goes to it if the castle resets every time The Doctor
resets it. Another thing is The Doctor
now a copy of him since he uses the transporter to bring another copy of
himself and if so when he gets to Gallifrey at the end does it set him back to
who he really is? Lots of stuff that
Moffat generally ignores when he writes a story and doesn’t care about minor
details like that and that gets frustrating sometimes when you watch his
episodes it could have been easily explained with a passing comment.
By reading
the first two paragraphs you would think that I totally hated Heaven Sent. That’s not true at all. I did enjoy it for the most part and really
liked what they did and tried to accomplish.
This story sort of reminded me of the Matrix scenes from The Deadly
Assassin when The Doctor was in that strange world going up against Goth and
trying to find out what The Master was up to.
I did enjoy watching Peter Capaldi’s Doctor racing around this castle
afraid for his life. I really enjoyed
the mystery surrounding everything and the clues that he left for himself just
added to the whole mystery of the story in general as you wanted to know what
was inside room twelve and what bird means.
Stuff like that I really enjoy and I really get into the story that
way.
Peter
Capaldi was really great in this story and his performance in Heaven Sent is
the best performance any actor playing The Doctor has ever done. It was amazing how he went from scared to
serious in a blink of an eye and every time he confronted the ghost or hybrid
just made you shiver with awe especially when he confessed about the
hybrid. That was just classic and really
well done and he is indeed the best actor to play The Doctor. Plus how strange was it seeing The Doctor
really scared. We are not accustomed to
seeing this part of him but you got a sense that he was really scared and it
came across the screen that way which just gives more indication on the
performance of Peter Capaldi.
I also
enjoyed him talking to Clara in his mind.
Here we get to see how The Doctor thinks and how he figures out how to
get out of a situation. This was pretty
good and added another dimension of the story as he needed someone to explain
something to and if talking to a Clara in his mind helps the audience know what
is going on which I am fine with that as it was done well and really added
something to the overall story.
I really
loved the cliffhanger. When The Doctor
gets out of the castle world or simply the confession dial, which we now know
what was on the one Missy had, and seeing him on Gallifrey was awesome. That was a nice cliffhanger and now he has
indirectly found Gallifrey and what will happen next is anyones guess but it
will have us talking all week about it.
I just loved it when you had the really mad Doctor tell the Gallifrayan
kid that I’m back and will be coming to kick the Time Lords butts. That was really awesome and just had to have
you cheering for The Doctor. Heaven
Sent is the middle part of the three part Series 9 finale and so far the story
is pretty good than most finales’ and let’s hope Hell Bent keeps the story
interesting and good. For the most part
I did enjoy Heaven Sent but just had a lot of problems with some of the
paradoxes that were not explained and the length of it.
Grade C +
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