Doctor Who
Night Terrors
By Mark Gatiss
"Please save me from the
monsters."
What appears to be one of the
creepiest and scariest stories of the season and in fact the whole series of
Series 6 and was Night Terrors as scary as it appears in the trailer. Well it was pretty scary but it did kind of
remind me of Fear Her just a bit. What I
mean by that is the girl in Fear Her put people into her drawings while George
puts them in a really creepy dollhouse.
What a creepy dollhouse it was too filled with creepy dolls that if they
touch you in essence you turn into one of those dolls also.
But more or less the basis of
this story is quiet simple. Face up to
your fears. Quite simply really as the
Doctor was able to get through to George by telling him to face his fears and
then telling Alex to love his son no matter that he is an alien. In other words love your son or daughter no
matter how weird or different they may be or become. I really liked the creepiness of the
dolls. They had the look and movements
of being truly frightening. On top of that adding a little kid’s voice to them
made the dolls even more menacing.
"We just want to play" spooky.
I liked the feel of this episode.
It was basically pretty simple to follow and did not have a lot of characters
in it to follow. I liked the tension
that surrounded the episode. I liked how
Rory and Amy got jerked around and were thrown into all the weirdness of the
doll house. I thought as I was watching
it that they had been transported into a doll house. As all the clues were there and when that
fact was brought to fruition I thought what a great idea a dollhouse with
creepy psychotic dolls.
I did like the fact that the
Doctor solved the problem without using the sonic screwdriver or on an overabundance
of sci- fi mumble jumble. But then when you get past the neatness of the horror
aspect and the message that this story is trying to convey it isn't really all
that special. I mean we've had stories
like this before and done a tad bit better.
It just seems the expectations of this episode were pretty high for me
and after watching the trailer and reading and watching the interviews about it
I just seemed to be let down by Night Terrors.
I was expecting more. But I do
have to say this I do think Mark Gatiss did redeem himself from Series Fives
not so good Victory of the Daleks. So
not a bad episode but Night Terrors did have the potential to be really scary
and just missed the mark a little bit but it was pretty creepy..
Grade B
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