Episode Seven: The Unicorn And The Wasp by Gareth 'Beardy Genius' Roberts
Episode Six nearly ruined my love for Doctor Who. Episode Six nearly made me want to give up television as a whole. And my eyesight.
After that heinous mess, they were going to have to wheel out something pretty special to make it up to me. Episode Seven was indeed something pretty special. Episode Seven was, in fact, one of the finest episodes ever committed to screen. The most enjoyable 45 minutes I've had in recent memory. (With my penis still in my pants, anyway)
A genuine murder-mystery, shot in the style of a murder-mystery... Like Poirot, with added Giant Wasp. A wonderful play on the whole 'Whodunnit' thing, but without making it too much of a spoof; without making it too knowing; without too much looking-at-the-camera-and-winking.
Loved the fact that it wasn't the Butler wot dunnit. Father Golightly was eventually unmasked as the giant wasp. I hate wasps. Well, I'm ALLERGIC to them, actually. Couldn't they have made it a nice butterfly or something?!
It was a genuinely intriguing mystery, with Agatha Christie's real-life disappearance nicely woven into the tale. It was also hilarious. Genuinely laugh-out-loud hilarious. I particularly enjoyed this exchange...
Rosemary And/Or Thyme: Lady Bummington-BumBum had her pearls stolen from right under her nose.
Donna: Funny place to wear pearls.
Ah, Donna... How I love thee. How can anyone possibly be excited by the return of Rose when we already have a companion so brilliant, so funny, so three-dimensional, so human, so perfect as Miss Noble?
She spent the whole of this episode, as always, stealing every scene she was in. Including my favourite EVER scene from Doctor Who. The wonderfully comic poisoning of the Doctor, where she just couldn't work out what the Doctor needed to devour in order to stop the poison taking effect.
"Harvey Wallbanger?!"
"A song?!"
I love her. While some of the episodes have been a bit smelly (Partners In Crime) and some of them have outright STUNK (Doctor's Shit Daughter - as if I needed to make that clear), the one thing that has made this series my favourite so far has been the sheer wonderfulness of Catherine Tate. Long may she reign.
Total Score: TEN out of TEN
Episode Six nearly ruined my love for Doctor Who. Episode Six nearly made me want to give up television as a whole. And my eyesight.
After that heinous mess, they were going to have to wheel out something pretty special to make it up to me. Episode Seven was indeed something pretty special. Episode Seven was, in fact, one of the finest episodes ever committed to screen. The most enjoyable 45 minutes I've had in recent memory. (With my penis still in my pants, anyway)
A genuine murder-mystery, shot in the style of a murder-mystery... Like Poirot, with added Giant Wasp. A wonderful play on the whole 'Whodunnit' thing, but without making it too much of a spoof; without making it too knowing; without too much looking-at-the-camera-and-winking.
Loved the fact that it wasn't the Butler wot dunnit. Father Golightly was eventually unmasked as the giant wasp. I hate wasps. Well, I'm ALLERGIC to them, actually. Couldn't they have made it a nice butterfly or something?!
It was a genuinely intriguing mystery, with Agatha Christie's real-life disappearance nicely woven into the tale. It was also hilarious. Genuinely laugh-out-loud hilarious. I particularly enjoyed this exchange...
Rosemary And/Or Thyme: Lady Bummington-BumBum had her pearls stolen from right under her nose.
Donna: Funny place to wear pearls.
Ah, Donna... How I love thee. How can anyone possibly be excited by the return of Rose when we already have a companion so brilliant, so funny, so three-dimensional, so human, so perfect as Miss Noble?
She spent the whole of this episode, as always, stealing every scene she was in. Including my favourite EVER scene from Doctor Who. The wonderfully comic poisoning of the Doctor, where she just couldn't work out what the Doctor needed to devour in order to stop the poison taking effect.
"Harvey Wallbanger?!"
"A song?!"
I love her. While some of the episodes have been a bit smelly (Partners In Crime) and some of them have outright STUNK (Doctor's Shit Daughter - as if I needed to make that clear), the one thing that has made this series my favourite so far has been the sheer wonderfulness of Catherine Tate. Long may she reign.
Total Score: TEN out of TEN
