The Twelfth Doctor, Clara and a Viking girl he reverse-remembers meeting at a later date set up Home Alone traps for a Monty Python God
The Doctor joins a Viking Highlander on a heist plotted by The Lion King
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The Twelfth Doctor has been led by his aptly named curioscanner on a solo mission to England in 1651, to track down an exoplanetary artefact of deadliest purple. But there’s a brigand lurking in this particular forest of the night – a former Viking!
Ashildr, now hundreds of years old, amnesiac and disillusioned, has teamed up with mysterious leonine fire-belching Voord-hider extraordinaire, Leandro, and is about to pull off one last, big score before she can finally blast off this boring rock.
Seemingly serendipitously stumbling upon each other, mid-penultimate-heist, Doc and Ashildr, now rebranded as “Me!” team up, though Doc hopes to evoke in his won’t-be companion a sense of decency and nostalgia. Also, the world is at stake.
As a big fan of the previous episode, I’m sad to say this follow-up left me very disappointed. I loved Ashildr but for the majority of the episode I strongly disliked Lady Me. I yelled “I hate Me” so much at the TV that my roommate brought me a Zoloft. Her disinterest in humanity should have been more subtle and not something she said in almost every sentence she spoke. I think they tried to capture the feeling of the last episode’s “quirky yet deep” feeling again here and just missed the mark.
The secondary antagonist was corny and cheap. A fire-breathing lion man from Leonis? That’s just lazy. The plot was thin and clearly only there to flimsily connect to Me’s journey to enlightenment.
It wasn’t all bad though. Unlike The Doctor, I love banter and puns! They made Sam Swift the most enjoyable part of this episode. Especially their stand up routine on the gallows. How could you “knot” like that?
One thing that confused me though. I thought the tech he gave Ashildr was supposed to continue to heal her. And yet, they made a point of saying she could be killed as easily as anyone else. With everything she did in her life and how long she ultimately ends up living for, it’s inconceivable she would not be killed in some completely human way.
In conclusion, this was a subpar episode in my opinion and I give it a 1.7 out of 5 half blind and deaf man servants. Until next time, Rock on
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Rating: 0.8/5 lionmen doing basically nothing. Yawn.