The Crimson Horror: it's official, Matt Smith is made of rubber. Too short to give the large cast anything more than a few big moments each, but lovely Victorian horrorscience with only a few minor quibbles about the script-editing, and
OMG TEGAN REFERENCE!!!<3333 I may have giggled nearly all the way through this with the usual caveat. And Clara is definitely the boss. XDDD
Nightmare in Silver: very nice
Cybermen episode for a
Cybermen episode not called "____ of the
Cybermen". And
kid companions is something I've been waiting for since the 90s. And the mindscape thing was neat too and and AND WARWICK DAVIS. CAN HE BE A RECURRING CHARACTER PLZ. All in all, more satisfied with these two episodes than I had been with the ones before them.
[edit] Someone analyzed the
chess game!
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