NuWho Review Redux: Cold Blood

[mavarin]

8/10 from me, not because there's anything wrong with it (I gave last week's a 9, when in retrospect it should have been an 8), but because this is quite a bit darker than I like my Doctor Who. This is Torchwood territory, and I don't mean that in a good way. This is like when Torchwood gets too dark for me, as in Chris Chibnall's Countrycide,

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[polemically]

I also found Amy's scenes to be intensely powerful -- so well done. And so, so sad.

I also was puzzled about the hand in the crack thing. I figured that the light from the crack didn't originate from the crack per say, but that it would ooze towards the crack and spill from the crack because in the Eleventh Hour, there wasn't any light -- just the alien eye thingy. In an attempt to be more articulate, it could be that the Doctor could put his hand through the crack without actually touching the light because the liquid hadn't caught up with the crack yet.

[mavarin]

Yes, that would work, if the time-unwriting energy is the stuff that oozes but not the mere light behind the open crack. That could be the light of the original explosion of the TARDIS (presumably), since that's what he pulls out. But why is that not destructive in itself? Messy, very messy.