November 14th, 2015
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Now that the highly anticipated Ninth episode of series 9 has been aired what did you think? Was it everything you had hoped for or not what you expected.
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Anonymous
November 15th, 2015 - 9:08amI admire the ambition to tell a DW story in a very different way but this didn’t quite work for me….I was left very confused. Hey ho….so this wasn’t great….but so far there have been 6 stunning episodes, 2 good episodes and…well this one. Still the best series to date in my opinion.
The TARDIS
November 15th, 2015 - 8:15amI’m certainly enjoyed watching this first time around, but I’m wondering what will happen with repeat viewings. Either the gimmick of “found footage” will wear off, or I will see past it more and gain a greater appreciation.
What I will say for definite however is that it felt unresolved. The ending certainly requires a sequel, and I’m sure that I (and many others) will be able to enjoy “Sleep No More” once it has been tied up properly.
It wasn’t at all scary though. I’m coming to accept that maybe I’ve grown past being able to find Doctor Who scary any more
CJ
November 15th, 2015 - 7:19amI agree!
DOCTOR WHO ONE
November 15th, 2015 - 6:57amTo quote Comic Book Guy from Matt Groening’s ‘The Simpson’s’ :
Worst – Episode – Ever !!.
chooky1441
November 15th, 2015 - 4:36amOk i understand that it was all set up to be a story but what was the point of doing it? Like if it was to demonstrate how the machines worked in the brain why would someone want to make a story that scared people into not using them….
Obsie
November 15th, 2015 - 3:50amSorry but for me it just didn’t work at all.
Steph
November 15th, 2015 - 3:45amThere was also no character development, no witty comments between Clara and the doctor (which is very important and expected in this show), no interesting background music(which really helps), the monster was so confusing. Nothing I have grown to expect over my years of watching doctor who was there!
Steph
November 15th, 2015 - 3:42amI agree. The writing was terrible and there was no excitement at all. Sorry to break it to you, but I read on bbc that Clara’s leaving this season. The shows just going to get worse.
scott
November 15th, 2015 - 2:44amSleep no more, dust bunny”s come to life, please. Im a big doctor who fan, have been for a long time, this is a big turn in the writing of this show, and this season is one of the worst. The only thing that is saving this show is claira, no Im not obsessed with her but she does bring life to the show, sorry peter.
anon
November 15th, 2015 - 2:15amOn my sky box i have:
The Magician’s Apprentice.
The Witch’s Familiar.
Under the Lake.
Before the Flood.
The Girl Who Died.
The Woman Who Lived.
The Zygon Invasion.
The Zygon Inversion.
After ten minutes of watching Sleep No More, i went to the planner, selected Dr Who and pressed the yellow button to delete it.
Found footage-style + Dr Who = really rubbish episode.
Anonymous
November 15th, 2015 - 1:58amThe whole thing was a staged horror movie. However, the “actors” were real people who had no idea it wasn’t real and genuinely died, and the real aliens intend to use the movie as an invasion mechanism.
In short, people that use the found footage style are evil alien invaders trying to melt your brain, which anyone could have told you anyway.
CG
November 15th, 2015 - 12:39amI actually quite enjoyed the episode. It definitely wasn’t the best of the series, by far, but in my opinion it was still better than The Woman Who Lived. I thought the story line was really good but was made a little boring and disjointed by all the narrated commentary. I felt that the resolution was ok but could have been expanded on much more. I also think that the issue the Doctor brought up about the Morpheus “machine” that hacked your sight (or let your “sleep” see) wasn’t resolved at all.
Also, I was pleased to see that the TARDIS’s Pull to Open sign lit up, making the new flight control TARDIS very accurate!
Doctor stu
November 15th, 2015 - 12:05amit didn’t have to be a found footage episode it could have just been a normal episode and if you cut out the bits where the narrator kept popping up there’d probably be enough time left to fit in a good resolution to the end of the episode. The ending really annoyed me because it just feel really lazy as there was no resolution. I thought the power of 3’s ending was bad but this just took the mick
Olga
November 14th, 2015 - 11:56pmIt wasn’t that bad but it wasn’t good either. The concept was great but the performance not so much. If it hadn’t been with Peter Capaldi, I would have said that it was quite bad and a bit boring but his acting saved the episode. Why the episodes from the 9th series have to be that dark?
The next one looks promising but also pretty depressing.
Doctor Stu
November 14th, 2015 - 11:50pmIt was ok until the end I didn’t understand the end at all the end was extremely poor
Olga
November 14th, 2015 - 11:44pmWeeping Angels or Silence are way more scary.
Olga
November 14th, 2015 - 11:39pmI agree as well. For me “Rec” is one of the most boring horror movies I’ve ever seen.
Coen
November 14th, 2015 - 11:33pmWell I don’t know. I really like the idea about monsters made out of sleep dust and the fact that they can’t see. And the way Morpheus works is really interesting. But… it felt like this was some kind of beta version of the episode we’re supposed to see.
The camera footage idea is also very interesting, certainly becaus the way it was used (‘And this, is you, Clara, watching me.’), but this, too, felt like it could have been so much more. I like it in horror movies, but in this episode, it kind of annoyed me, though.
The thing I think I am most dissapointed by, is patient zero. He hasn’t slept for five years, so I was expecting some kind of ‘ultimate sandman’, only to find out he was exactly the same.
Next episode looks pretty good, though. I hope that one pleases me more. This one had good ideas, but could have been better.
daleksean
November 14th, 2015 - 11:01pmI watched the first three minutes then turned it off because I could tell it was going to be rubbish and now I’m glad I did by all the comments about the episode
The Living Shadow
November 14th, 2015 - 10:59pmTo be honest, I really don’t know whether I liked this episode or not…
It had some brilliant concepts and ideas, and I don’t think it was bad overall, but I don’t have anything else to back up the episode other than the concepts being good (and the acting, as usual was great).
The found footage idea was rather odd, I couldn’t really tell what they were going for; is it breaking the forth wall with us as the viewer, or is the footage supposed to have been released around the ‘whoniverse’. Although wasn’t the footage from the dust or something? Hmm… I’ll definitely have to rewatch.
Overall this review may seem negative, but I didn’t dislike the episode, which makes it difficult for me to decide whether I liked it or not. It just has something (not sure what) that I found likeable…
Anonymous
November 14th, 2015 - 10:51pmThe latest episode was great, 9/10 fantastic story, It was like the Doctor’s world had been put in a blender with League of Gentlemen and Pshycoville to make a martini with an element of Peep Show as a zest. Only thing was… I think they lost the opening credits in post-production. Gatiss really knows how to do dark and it was a good chance for him to work with his old teammate Reece Shearsmith.
Dem squiggles
November 14th, 2015 - 10:43pmAbsolutely awful worst thing I’ve ever seen in my lifetime -1/10
Dem squiggles
November 14th, 2015 - 10:41pmabsolutely awful -1/10
the astronaut of death
November 14th, 2015 - 10:39pmPRETTY SURE I HAVE WORKED THE ENDING OUT…..
‘The Professor and the Sandmen needed to find a way to get to Earth , so they decided to do it through the footage. So the Professor called for a rescue crew so he could use people for his story and to capture the footage , so the Sandmen and the Professor acted a bit to make the story more exiting (this is why The Doctor felt it was played out and didn’t make sense) ,By making the story more exiting this kept the Humans back on earth keep watching the footage and not turn off . So since the Humans back on Earth were watching the footage for so long, this allowed the sleep dust to get in their eyes and allow the sandmen to get to Earth.’
The Five Doctors
November 14th, 2015 - 10:37pmIt was OK
Mrewanwatson
November 14th, 2015 - 10:29pmAbsolute codswallop.
CJ
November 14th, 2015 - 10:20pm100% agree with you on that
CJ
November 14th, 2015 - 10:19pmEveryone died except the Doctor, Clara and that woman but normally in found footage films (mainly the horror ones) everyone dies and basically leaves it on a cliffhanger
CJ
November 14th, 2015 - 10:12pmTo be honest, I enjoyed this episode better then the episodes we’ve seen so far! Brilliant episode, had me on the edge of my seat and the ending was great… 9/10 IMO best Mark Gatiss episode!
The Silent Silent
November 14th, 2015 - 10:05pmBAD !!!