This is a perfectly reasonable expectation and thus something that makes a sensible objection when it doesn’t happen. And take a companion too infirm to open a Christmas cracker. Yes, let’s give our lead actress a several hour makeup job in the future. Only young hot chicks allowed.” I really wish feminist critics of Moffat’s writing would stop being so completely idiotic. As this episode wrapped on Twitter, I saw the usually intelligent Laurie Penny with an immediate reaction complaining that it was sexist that the Doctor didn’t consider taking the elderly Clara on the TARDIS, saying “Same reason he couldn’t take Old Amy.It’s a masterpiece of doing exactly what you said you were going to do and still making it surprising.
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The repeated waking out of dream states only serves to reiterate that this is the story it initially promised to be. The cold open ends with what really is the key question of the story. Notably, instead of a narrative substitution we have a sort of repeated and emphatic reiteration of the narrative.I really hope they don’t immediately lose him to better paying work.
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All three of his stories require quite a bit of setup time to explain their rules, and he makes those sequences lively while still quickly communicating everything that needs communicated. What really stands out about Wilmshurst – and it was probably most highlighted in Mummy on the Orient Express where he had a writer with a similar skill – is his ability to introduce a concept. That’s a hell of a case for director of the year there, even with Ben Wheatley’s impressive effort on the first two stories.