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The beginning was quite slow. Darth_Katie Send a noteboard - 05/09/2011 03:24:00 AM
It felt clunky and I didn't have any emotional investment in it. With about ten minutes to go I said to my brother that I thought it was going to be a double parter because i felt there was so little development and movement of plot in the opening half hour of so. The ending felt like something of a cop out, basically the entire thing can be summed up as "parents should look after their children better/more". So very tv movie of the week.


I thought the The Curse of the Black Pearl Spot and Victory of the Daleks were worse though. Both of those felt way more contrived and artificial.

And I don't think that was quite the moral of the story. I thought it was pretty clear that the parents loved their son very much, they just didn't know how to help him. For me, the plot between the pirate father and son was way less engaging and more forced than the father-son relationship in this episode.
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Doctor Who - Night Terrors Mark - 04/09/2011 09:20:40 PM 533 Views
I actually thought that was one of the weakest Moffat-ised episodes Stephen - 05/09/2011 02:16:09 AM 298 Views
The beginning was quite slow. Darth_Katie - 05/09/2011 03:24:00 AM 266 Views
My estimation. Nate - 05/09/2011 05:04:57 AM 300 Views
My rankings would be pretty similar Darth_Katie - 05/09/2011 04:00:14 PM 328 Views
I'm sorry Wibble - 05/09/2011 06:24:59 PM 301 Views
Those episodes do not exist! *NM* Stephen - 05/09/2011 01:53:51 PM 146 Views
Precisely. *NM* Camilla - 05/09/2011 03:43:58 PM 131 Views
I liked it, but I wouldn't say it was the best. Darth_Katie - 05/09/2011 03:19:52 AM 485 Views
I agree with pretty much everything you said. Nate - 05/09/2011 04:51:54 AM 266 Views
I thought it was rather average. Nate - 05/09/2011 04:49:09 AM 253 Views
I thought it was okay. Fanatic-Templar - 05/09/2011 07:44:51 AM 283 Views
Easily the best episode since Impossible Astronaut Wibble - 05/09/2011 11:20:11 AM 294 Views
Interestingly, the break seems to have worked ratings wise Wibble - 05/09/2011 06:25:59 PM 293 Views
It's also moved to a later timeslot, which may have helped *NM* Mark - 06/09/2011 03:32:50 PM 141 Views
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