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Post by Whovitt on Feb 29, 2020 0:19:06 GMT
He sounds like a ray of sunshine. I gave the episode a cautious 4* (because while mysterious and spectacular, it's a Part 1 and how good it really turns out to be depends on Part 2.)
But reading that tweet makes me want to 'upgrade' my score to 5* as a 'so there' For one thing that was a great cliff-hanger! The cliffhanger was built on two moments, but only one of them could have had an impact. I could have told you Dhawan would be back the moment the credits started rolling for Spyfall: Part Two. It was just kind of obvious he'd be back. Graham, Yas, and the others being shot? That was really good, apart from the fact you didn't see anybody actually get hit. Tends to be a dead giveaway (no pun intended) that whoever's being shot at will survive. Also didn't help that the moment I opened Facebook afterwards the top result was images from the next episode which don't really leave any ambiguity over who survives or not. They made the right decision by not showing anything in the Next Time trailer, but if you go and release publicity shots brimming with spoilers within hours of broadcast what's the point? While that's not the episode's fault, it was still (again) pretty obvious what the outcome of the situation would be, so all in all it was a pretty predictable affair and the worst thing a cliffhanger can be is predictable. I don't want to sound like I didn't enjoy the episode though as I thought it was one of the best episodes in a long, long time. I just don't think they had a hope of pulling off that cliffhanger without it being pretty obvious.
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Post by number13 on Feb 29, 2020 3:01:13 GMT
I gave the episode a cautious 4* (because while mysterious and spectacular, it's a Part 1 and how good it really turns out to be depends on Part 2.)
But reading that tweet makes me want to 'upgrade' my score to 5* as a 'so there' For one thing that was a great cliff-hanger! The cliffhanger was built on two moments, but only one of them could have had an impact. I could have told you Dhawan would be back the moment the credits started rolling for Spyfall: Part Two. It was just kind of obvious he'd be back. Graham, Yas, and the others being shot? That was really good, apart from the fact you didn't see anybody actually get hit. Tends to be a dead giveaway (no pun intended) that whoever's being shot at will survive. Also didn't help that the moment I opened Facebook afterwards the top result was images from the next episode which don't really leave any ambiguity over who survives or not. They made the right decision by not showing anything in the Next Time trailer, but if you go and release publicity shots brimming with spoilers within hours of broadcast what's the point? While that's not the episode's fault, it was still (again) pretty obvious what the outcome of the situation would be, so all in all it was a pretty predictable affair and the worst thing a cliffhanger can be is predictable. I don't want to sound like I didn't enjoy the episode though as I thought it was one of the best episodes in a long, long time. I just don't think they had a hope of pulling off that cliffhanger without it being pretty obvious. Agree about Graham and co. and as I think I commented to you about 'another story' recently (no spoilers here folks!) that sort of "Blake's 7" ending to an episode leaves me unruffled! I've seen it so many times in Who and if they want to kill a main character, it's going to be done with full drama not offscreen.
The other half of the cliff-hanger... well of course we were all expecting the Master back My first ever season was S8 so it takes a lot to surprise me about the Master showing up! It was ruined Gallifrey just appearing over the sea which took me by surprise and then he burst from the one place I wouldn't have expected the Master to be found, considering how shaken he seemed when he gave the Doctor that warning about Gallifrey in 'Spyfall'. Unless he was lying...
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Post by nucleusofswarm on Apr 16, 2020 11:45:29 GMT
Well, obviously a bit late on this, but might as well just update for the sake of completion: 28 days was 5.6m.
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