Review - Doctor Who: The God Complex

[ed_rex]

The god, complex?

Taken by itself, The God Complex is a mostly entertaining episode, competently-scripted and boasting quite stylish direction.

At least one guest star really shines, none of them bore us, and we're treated to the requisite chills expected of an encounter with the unknown in company of Doctor Who.

But The God Complex comes after three stand-alone adventure in what this viewer, at least, had thought had been advertised as a complex, series-long arc of single story, one that would presumably lead to a climax providing two series' worth of answers to dangling threads.

Does The God Complex deliver as prophesied? Click here to find out — spoilers and opinions as usual, so proceed at your own risk.

Comments

Re: Wildly different view, same facts

[ed_rex]

Real reply to follow (quite possibly not soon), but ...

It's a wonder Eleven doesn't throw up his hands and say "I've had it with everything. You none of you know how to not destroy all of existence," and go live in a cave.

"The Cave of Doctor Who"? Well, it worked for Doctor Moreau and his island, didn't it? Maybe you're on to something ...

Re: Wildly different view, same facts

[ed_rex]

Oi. That promised follow-up? It seems I wrote it back in the spring, more or less. Not so much timey-wimey, as I have been obsessing on it possibly more than I should be. http://ed-rex.com/reviews/television/doctor_who/a_good_man_goes_to_war if you haven't already read it.

As I said in my introduction to my latest review, I went and plagiarized myself!