Some quick jotted down thoughts about the new DW ep
[And spoilers, of course]
It wasn't bad or awful, JLC as Clara really is a treat and fun to watch. Only as a character for Clara, she seems likable but she didn't really feel like she had much an active role in the plot, or rather just one of the least active roles ever for a companion intro since the reboot? Like, she seems pleasant and fun but she didn't become super special or smart till she got her brain uploaded and became super smart and even then, got sucked back to the sidelines for the rest of the episode. As a pilot for trying to introduce a companion to the narrative, it didn't really feel like it did it's job at all- I liked bits of Clara (ie her desire to travel, etc) and it was entertaining at parts but it didn't mesh up with other bits (seriously, a completely computer illiterate uni graduate?) so mixed feelings.
- How does a 23 year old student who's graduated from uni not know a thing about wifi? Or rather, why is she computer illiterate?
- Oh and that whole scene with the monk and evil spirit=woman good nothing's changed Moffat
- Why do I have a feeling the shop girl is going to be River or an older!Clara in disguise? Why do I sense a time loop?
- JLC is fun to watch on screen, though
- I really don't like how Clara only got to be a contributing member to the plot once she had people scramble around with her brain and how even then she only got to locate them and then get sucked back into a screen and before the mind upload, she wasn't depicted at all being useful
- This was starting to remind me of The Eleventh Hour in how it was set up, except Clara turned into Damsel in Distress. Oh wait, that kind of happened to Amy too.
- Hacking the guy to raise his obedience as opposed to his conscience didn't really sit well with me. Oh wait it's not like Eleven turned humanity into unknowing genocidal murderers
- Eleven saying that being stuck in a data cloud without a body to go back to is hell when oh wait isn't that what happened to River with Ten basically sticking her into a computer mainframe? Guess good thing that Ten was there other than Eleven, River
- UNIT is back woooo
- Interesting setup with the plot; I feel like the Great Intelligence is coming back for the series villain?
It wasn't bad or awful, JLC as Clara really is a treat and fun to watch. Only as a character for Clara, she seems likable but she didn't really feel like she had much an active role in the plot, or rather just one of the least active roles ever for a companion intro since the reboot? Like, she seems pleasant and fun but she didn't become super special or smart till she got her brain uploaded and became super smart and even then, got sucked back to the sidelines for the rest of the episode. As a pilot for trying to introduce a companion to the narrative, it didn't really feel like it did it's job at all- I liked bits of Clara (ie her desire to travel, etc) and it was entertaining at parts but it didn't mesh up with other bits (seriously, a completely computer illiterate uni graduate?) so mixed feelings.