Doctor Who: The Empty Child (2005)
Season 1, Episode 9
8/10
Grrrreeat but not a masterpiece.
21 June 2019
Warning: Spoilers
How did they do so much night filming? It's really impressive from my perspective, that must have been so hard. The production value is through the roof in this episode it's really commendable.

Furthermore, the story was really interesting but mainly in how information trickled in as the episode carried on.

However, my god, where did that rope come from and how did rose not see it! Was she blind? Is she an idiot? It's soooooo contrived. But of course it has a use to get her into the arms in the wonderful captain jack whos fly boy attitude is shown as rather selfish as when as soon as he charms rose, he intends to exploit it to try to get paid for the space ship. This I also thought was representative of the capitalist attitude that serves destiny that Americans are so keen on, this subtext also leaks into the following episode (I'm watching both episodes before viewing each of them.)

As a side note, Albion hospital call back is a really nice detail which makes these romps through time and space have perspective and a sense of cohesiveness which again is a very good strength that this era has.

I also never thought I'd be scared of outdated CG but ha! Was I wrong!
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