It seems like the writers have finally realized that character development is more important than exposition, but they took it a little too far: in this episode, the character development takes more time than the actual plot.
Plenty of time is spent on the companions' respective backstories and what they "fear." So much so, that there was barely any time for the show to explain why all these flashbacks were occurring.
We get dropped in on 1380 Syria for some reason, jump to the present to show the creepy god guy who appears and disappears in the TARDIS for some reason, and whose fingers come off and suck nightmares out of people. Then we're suddenly in the future in some random spot in space, where we get a shadow-puppet expositional story about why these gods are doing what they're doing, before the Doctor somehow force-summons her screwdriver from her out-of-reach pocket to free herself and save the Earth.
There's just too much going on. The idea is good, but this should have been at least 2 episodes to properly fit in both the character development and the plot development. As it is, this episode is a frustratingly confusing mess.
Plenty of time is spent on the companions' respective backstories and what they "fear." So much so, that there was barely any time for the show to explain why all these flashbacks were occurring.
We get dropped in on 1380 Syria for some reason, jump to the present to show the creepy god guy who appears and disappears in the TARDIS for some reason, and whose fingers come off and suck nightmares out of people. Then we're suddenly in the future in some random spot in space, where we get a shadow-puppet expositional story about why these gods are doing what they're doing, before the Doctor somehow force-summons her screwdriver from her out-of-reach pocket to free herself and save the Earth.
There's just too much going on. The idea is good, but this should have been at least 2 episodes to properly fit in both the character development and the plot development. As it is, this episode is a frustratingly confusing mess.
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