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Review of The Witch’s Familiar by dema1020

26 May 2024

I guess I just didn't connect with this second part as much as the first. I liked the scenes with Doctor and Davros, but also feel, to a degree, they didn't really go anywhere with it. I don't know, I just feel after all the build-up of this character and delving into his past along with his relationship with the Doctor, that we were going to do something with it? Instead it just feels like a lot of fanfare over nothing. We get Skaro back, I guess, but I also feel like it hardly matters or ever comes up again. It just becomes a lot of noise. It's like the scene with the Doctor in Davros' chair. He makes some quips, we have some fun with the visual, and then nothing really comes of it. I was a bit disappointed.

I do really like all the stuff with Clara in the Dalek, though. It was both a little fun hearing her voice get filtered, then pretty disturbing and creepy after a while. It was very well done and basically salvages the whole episode. Were it not for Coleman I definitely think the Doctor and Missy's constant quipping would have been overwhelming here.

Review created on 26-05-24