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Overview

First aired

Saturday, October 24, 2015

Written by

Catherine Tregenna

Directed by

Ed Bazalgette

Runtime

45 minutes

Story Type

Companion-Lite

Time Travel

Past

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

Amnesia, Consequences

Story Arc (Potential Spoilers!)

Me

Inventory (Potential Spoilers!)

Psychic Paper, Sonic Sunglasses

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Earth

UK Viewers

6.11 million

Appreciation Index

81

Synopsis

Adventuring on his own for a while, the Doctor seeks out an artefact of great power that could spell disaster in the wrong hands: the Eyes of Hades.

However, he soon comes face to face with consequences of one of his past acts of compassion, when he meets an immortal he created, who has now lost all hope with a heart filled with centuries of pain.

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This one was alright. It's another case of part one was better but it's series 9 so it's to be expected. I liked how it was very different from the first part taking place a few centuries later. I like how it carries on the story of Ashildr / Me and how she's living with Immortality. Sam Swift was one of the highlights here he was a side character for most of it but he ended up becoming immortal too. His comedy was funny and the casting was brilliant. Now time for some negatives. The design of Leandro was rubbish he is basically a big lion and didn't fit the story at all. It felt like putting a zygon in night terrors. It wouldn't work at all. I felt a bit bored of this and it was mainly all just chatting between Me & the doctor the entire time it was very dull. Overall an ok story but I felt bored but it had a good idea. 6/10


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The high level concept for Me is very interesting, combining this with a formidable actor like Maisie Williams seems like a sure fire bet on paper. Unfortunately somewhere in the execution (either the writing, performance or both) it just doesn’t click.

The writers have been working hard to bring levity back into this series, but the balance of comedy and serious, thought provoking drama in this episode are awkward and clunky. Neither end up landing as a result.

Rufus Hound as Sam Swift though is phenomenal. The way he churns out gallows humour in front of a rowdy crowd in the style of a late night club comic is the definite highlight of the story.


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ASHILDR: Do you ever think or care what happens after you’ve flown away? I live in the world you leave behind, because you abandoned me to it.

DOCTOR: Why should I be responsible for you?

ASHILDR: You made me immortal.

DOCTOR: I saved your life. I didn’t know that your heart would rust because I kept it beating. I didn’t think your conscience would need renewing, that the well of human kindness would run dry. I just wanted to save a terrified young woman’s life.

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[Woodland]

(Night time. A coach and four is trotting along the track by the light of a full moon when a lone horseman moves into their path.)

COACHMAN: Whoa!

(The masked horseman rears his horse, who neighs. The coach passengers look out, the young lady leaning forward to emphasise her décolletage.)

HIGHWAYMAN: Stand and deliver!
COACHMAN: Do as he says. I've heard of this brigand. He's known as the Knightmare! Faster than Sam Swift the Quick, deadlier than Deadly Dupont.
HIGHWAYMAN: Dabbling lowpads the pair of 'em, with terrible pseudonyms to boot. Cash bags, jewels, the lot.
FANSHAWE: I will not be robbed by some lone, ranting cavalier!
HIGHWAYMAN: Who says I am alone?
(A pair of bright lights come on in the bushes. Lucie Fanshawe screams.
Meanwhile, also in the forest, the Doctor looks out of the TARDIS, then leaves it and starts up a gizmo with a compass on top.)
DOCTOR: Right.


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