The Doctor rescues Clara who's cut adrift in Space. They land in a Viking village and discover the locals are being taken and harvested by the War race, The Mire. Clara, the familiar Ashildr and a group of locals are taken, but Clara finds a way of escaping along with Ashildr. They confront the leader of the Mire and Ashildr accidentally declares war. The pair are returned to the Village, and it's up to the Doctor to train the locals how to fight, a plan is hatched, but in the crossfire Ashildr is killed. The Doctor resurrects her using alien tech but in doing so makes her immortal.
There was a definite switch in tone, the first four episodes were very dark, almost bleak. The Girl who died was much lighter in tone, fair bit of comedy, the naming and training of the vikings, ZZ top, Heidi etc, the Baby talk once again.
Lots of questions are asked, mostly surrounding Maisie Williams's character Ashildr, does the Doctor know who she is? Is she the War Lord? Is she a future companion? What actually happened to her when she had the helmet on, was it just heart failure? Is she the hybrid Davros spoke of? She's key to the episode, and was very very good. Capaldi's previous appearance in Pompeii is also brought up.
I loved the settings, locations and costumes, the episode looked very good.
Two things that niggled, firstly Odin appearing in the sky, was that from the Teletubbies? and the place for The Benny Hill them tune is 3AM on ITV2.
It was a very good episode, it had some great moments, I thought the last 5 minutes in particular was excellent, I loved the dialogue between the Doctor and Clara, a great tie in to the Fires of Pompeii. I Loved that the Doctor was uneasy at what he'd done to Ashildr, his tidal wave mistake.
This two Part format is working really well, the characters are being allowed to develop.
9/10
There was a definite switch in tone, the first four episodes were very dark, almost bleak. The Girl who died was much lighter in tone, fair bit of comedy, the naming and training of the vikings, ZZ top, Heidi etc, the Baby talk once again.
Lots of questions are asked, mostly surrounding Maisie Williams's character Ashildr, does the Doctor know who she is? Is she the War Lord? Is she a future companion? What actually happened to her when she had the helmet on, was it just heart failure? Is she the hybrid Davros spoke of? She's key to the episode, and was very very good. Capaldi's previous appearance in Pompeii is also brought up.
I loved the settings, locations and costumes, the episode looked very good.
Two things that niggled, firstly Odin appearing in the sky, was that from the Teletubbies? and the place for The Benny Hill them tune is 3AM on ITV2.
It was a very good episode, it had some great moments, I thought the last 5 minutes in particular was excellent, I loved the dialogue between the Doctor and Clara, a great tie in to the Fires of Pompeii. I Loved that the Doctor was uneasy at what he'd done to Ashildr, his tidal wave mistake.
This two Part format is working really well, the characters are being allowed to develop.
9/10