Usual rules apply to future episodes and the like. Spoilers for this episode and all previous episodes are under the cut.<\/p>\n
Since Caroline had been out of town for \u201cUnder the Lake\u201d and we were at NYCC when \u201cBefore the Flood\u201d aired so I saw both episodes back to back and they work very well as a piece but were also fascinating individually. <\/p>\n
This was fun from opening monologue to closing sentence. There isn\u2019t any cheating here between the time zones and the actions of the characters.<\/p>\n
Good character development through out. I felt sorry for each person meeting their fate as I had some idea who each one was.<\/p>\n
I am glad that we met one of the ghosts before he was a ghost. Some great dialogue for him.<\/p>\n
There isn\u2019t much more I can say without spoiling something for someone. <\/p>\n
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The use of the Fisher King was a good one. The reasoning of the alien, who looked pretty scary, was solid for the most part. It was just not counting on the Doctor being motivated.<\/p>\n
And there is the paradox on how the Doctor motivates himself which might come back to haunt him.<\/p>\n
Is it me or is the Doctor insisting a little too hard that he can\u2019t change the time streams and then deciding that the situation warrants his meddling?<\/p>\n
I really enjoyed the Tivolian Prentis as the undertaker. The dialogue was played in such a happy fashion. Paul Kaye did an excellent job with a rather strange character.<\/p>\n
They did use everything that we were told in the first episode to inform how things go in this episode.<\/p>\n
And I loved the \u201cwho created Beethovan\u2019s 5th\u201d aka the bootstrap paradox. But I have a feeling that it sets up something later in the series considering the discussion that Clara and the Doctor have about time and time streams along with Davros\u2019 conversation with the Doctor on why he is still running. <\/p>\n
I am a little upset that I didn\u2019t think about the hologram for the ghost and the Doctor putting himself in status and taking the long way around.<\/p>\n
We are left a lot to think about in the end.<\/p>\n
And the add of the guitar to the opening theme kicked some serious butt.<\/p>\n
I am grateful for a solid episode of Doctor Who.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Usual rules apply to future episodes and the like. Spoilers for this episode and all previous episodes are under the cut. Since Caroline had been out of town for \u201cUnder the Lake\u201d and we were at NYCC when \u201cBefore the Flood\u201d aired so I saw both episodes back to back and they work very well […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t