Today we will be reviewing the modern story that has perhaps had the greatest impact on the show's history, The Day of the Doctor, the 50th anniversary special. As usual, spoilers will be present in this review.
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I love this episode. It's probably one of the ones I've watched the most times. It also serves as the end of Series Seven and Matt Smith's final regular episode. As a warning, this review will contain spoilers for this story.
This is my absolute favorite Christmas special Doctor Who has ever done. It's a truly wonderful story, and has so much heart to it. This truly is a phenomenal episode. I didn't think much of it the first time I watched it but since then, I've grown to love the story and count it as one of my favorite episodes. The ending is the closest that Doctor Who has ever brought me to crying with the crushing fate of Abigail and how Kazran has aged so much because he can't bring himself to release her.
I really liked how Kazran's character develops throughout the story. It's really nice to see how the Doctor's interference in his life changes him for the better and the effects that has on him. In addition, all of the actor who played him did a wonderful job and captured the different stages of the character really well. The flying fish were a really unique idea and I liked the way the story used the two halves of the sonic screwdriver throughout the story. Overall, this is a truly enjoyable episode that I plan to watch every year around Christmas. It's pretty clear from my reviews of BBC Audio's stories that I'm not the biggest fan of them. It's not that I dislike them, it's just that they are not the best Doctor Who I've ever seen (or rather listened to). This episode isn't like the others. I really enjoyed this episode.
As with most episodes I'm not overly fond of, this will be a rather short review. It's been a few weeks since I've listened to this story, so this review won't be as in-depth as most of my others.
This story has a very unique concept. It's about giant pylons coming to life and attacking people. That's pretty much all I remember about the story, other than that I didn't enjoy it too much. It almost felt like the author was trying to do what Steven Moffatt did with Blink: turn something totally ordinary into something terrifying. Unfortunately, I felt this story didn't live up to these ambitions. I enjoyed Arthur Darvill's narration and it was nice to hear another story with the Doctor and Amy, but that's pretty much everything this story has to offer. I sadly didn't get a chance to review this immediately after finishing this volume, so this review will be more of an overview of the volume as a whole than talking about each individual issue.
And now, we reach the end of my reviews on The Eleventh Doctor Volume 4: The Then and the Now. This issue really heightens the pace and moves the story beyond setting the story up.
This'll probably be a relatively brief review.
Like that last paragraph. Anyways, the best thing about this story is that you get to hear Matt Smith as the Doctor again. He does a really good job with Amy's voice, capturing the Scottish aspect of it well. That's pretty much the only good thing I have to say about this story. It's not that this is a terrible story, it's just not the most captivating. I eventually got to the point where I stopped fully paying attention because the plot just wasn't interesting the entire time. From what I understood, there were mannequins that came alive, much like Autons, though even this I got from reading a summary online. I do wish that this story had gotten better, especially since it's one of the few expanded media stories that Matt Smith has recorded. Granted, it has been a bit over a week since I listened to this story, but the fact that I remember barely anything about it, besides liking the character of Shijo is a testament to the story and its quality. That's really all I have to say about the story. I enjoyed The Forever Trap, another story in the same series, much more, though I wish that this first story with Matt Smith that I listened to had been better. In this review, I will be discussing full spoilers for this first issue of The Lost Dimension, though I will not discuss events that happen in later issues.
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