Chinese takeout in the TARDIS
Sep. 21st, 2014 11:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellestraNow that's an episode that I loved. I loved the secondary characters, the monster and the antagonist but most of all I loved the Time Heist itself.
I generally like the time loop stories and this also had a lot of that classic space rouges, future heist qualities that I love. I saw someone compare it to Farscape's Liars, Guns and Money and it was fun in the same crazy way. There are all the different skills each of the team brings to the heist and the reasons why they decided to do it. There is a plan they cannot even remember to accomplish it. And there is a monster to chase them (and to save).
Being genre savvy meant I anticipated a lot of stuff. I was pretty sure Saibra and Psi were not dead. I liked them too much to even consider otherwise but I also know that there in this kind of adventure there wouldn't have been a point in finding their prizes otherwise. I was pretty sure that either Ms. Delphox or Karabraxos were behind the heist - whoever organised it knew the Bank too well for it not to be an inside job - but I wasn't expecting it to be the future version. And of course Doctor was the Architect. He could pop on TARDIS and place all those things just in the right place to find them when they stumbled around. He knows his own stumbling pattern. But none of this decreased my enjoyment of the episode.
This was just so much fun. And all the guest stars were awesome - I ended up wishing both Saibra and Psi could stay for one more adventure. And Keeley Hawes was pretty awesomely evil in all her incarnations.
And I loved that Clara changed her shoes.
I generally like the time loop stories and this also had a lot of that classic space rouges, future heist qualities that I love. I saw someone compare it to Farscape's Liars, Guns and Money and it was fun in the same crazy way. There are all the different skills each of the team brings to the heist and the reasons why they decided to do it. There is a plan they cannot even remember to accomplish it. And there is a monster to chase them (and to save).
Being genre savvy meant I anticipated a lot of stuff. I was pretty sure Saibra and Psi were not dead. I liked them too much to even consider otherwise but I also know that there in this kind of adventure there wouldn't have been a point in finding their prizes otherwise. I was pretty sure that either Ms. Delphox or Karabraxos were behind the heist - whoever organised it knew the Bank too well for it not to be an inside job - but I wasn't expecting it to be the future version. And of course Doctor was the Architect. He could pop on TARDIS and place all those things just in the right place to find them when they stumbled around. He knows his own stumbling pattern. But none of this decreased my enjoyment of the episode.
This was just so much fun. And all the guest stars were awesome - I ended up wishing both Saibra and Psi could stay for one more adventure. And Keeley Hawes was pretty awesomely evil in all her incarnations.
And I loved that Clara changed her shoes.
