How did his search go?
***SPOILER***
So we start the pre-credit clip with the Doctor at a monastery. He's gone mad in his sadness and his search for Clara.
When the "Bells of Saint John" goes off the monks bring the Doctor to the bells, which turn out to be the TARDIS hidden out of sight. The phone is ringing and who is on the other side? Clara. With a problem with her wi-fi.
The episode was actually really sweet, it introduced us once more to yet another different Clara, she's basically a modern "Governess" working for a family.
The bad guy at first isn't obvious but the pay off at the end is great. At first you feel it would probably be some alien race using wi-fi to trap peoples conscious into computers. It turns out that actually the people trapping people are human and that they are working within London.
The Doctor rushes to Clara after he realizes that it is her phoning the TARDIS, he saves her from the "Spoonheads" and she joins him to find the culprits.
Before they rush off to the center of London they have to fly a plane which the bad guys are sending to crash into them.
After saving the plane they go to London and Clara, using abilities that got downloaded back into her body, hacks her way to the location of the bad guys whilst the bad guys keep the Doctor busy and send a spoonhead after her. With Clara downloaded into the "cloud" the Doctor uses the spoonhead to go after the bad guys, downloading the main bad guy (you think) into the cloud and forcing her employees to redownload everyone back into their bodies.
It turns out that the actual bad guy is still the Great Intelligence, and after their failed plan he restarts all the people working for him sending the main bad guy (or the face of the Intelligence in this episode) right back to her childhood. Showing just how young she was when the Intelligence took over.
Clara meanwhile kind of turns down traveling with the Doctor and the mystery of who Clara is.
Ok I didn't do the episode justice with that write up (have to admit not totally with it getting a bit grogey and writing it up whilst watching The Voice) the episode was actually very good.
It was a self contained story, the threat was real, the bad guys were fun and we had the continued theme of Clara and the Great Intelligence.
Matt Smith as always was wonderful as Eleven, and I liked how this episodes problem was solved with brains.
Clara looks like she'll be a welcome addition to Team TARDIS, she doesn't worship the Doctor (yet) or fancy him (from what it looks). She is confident in herself and seems like left to her own devices she'll take over from the Doctor and carry on working things out, she won't stand about looking important or lost. I love Amy but sometimes her character was just too childlike, Clara looks like she'll be able to stand on her own two feet.
I like how, as Moffat explains it, we have a "soft" arc. What is going to happen with the GI and who is Clara? I hope Clara isn't too overblown, I'd like it if it was just a simple sort of explanation which isn't too sci-fi or fantasy. A mixture of both and yet neither as strange as that sounds. I also don't want it to change her character, somewhere between past Clara and future Oswin.
So the actual story...
The actual story was a bit random but it is easy to watch and just a fun adventure with the Doctor and his companion.
I did like that it was contained, and I thought the revelation that the women in charge had actually been under the influence of the Intelligence since she was a child was more "scary" in a way then them controlling everyone through wi-fi.
It did look wonderful though I do feel it was a chance you could have moved the threat outside London, but that isn't really a big problem for me.
It wasn't a particularly hard hitting episode, nothing I'd rush to watch time and time again. As I said the story was a bit muddled and felt like it was meant to be about 10 minutes longer.
That didn't ruin anything though as I enjoyed the story greatly and thought as well as being perfectly acted out it was also beautiful to look at.
A brilliant start to the second half of series 7 and the Next Time trailer looks wonderful!
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