#DOCTOR WHO SLEEP NO MORE MOVIE#

But as Rassmussen says, don't get too attached to them! The astute viewer would notice early on that the found-footage aspect of this episode didn’t really make sense. Something is up at this floating lab, as it has suddenly gone silent, and this group - the untried leader, the joker, the grunt, and so on - have been instructed to investigate in true Aliens rip-off fashion. You can never un-see it.” So of course we watch it! But as it turns out, those words will have ramifications later… A motley cast of characters are introduced as they enter the Le Verrier Space Station in orbit around Neptune. We kick off with a video message from Professor Rassmussen (Reece Shearsmith) talking directly to the camera as he warns us that we “must not watch this. And yet, frequent DW writer Mark Gatiss turns the concept on its ever-watchful head, essentially making the very notion of found footage into the bad guys of the story.

Obviously a show like Who has to find new and different ways to tell its stories, having been on the air for so long, but still.

But we now have three episodes to go with this season and it just feels like so… little… amount of fanfare for her.At first glance, the found-footage trope seems a disappointing way to go. Sure there’s some banter between her and the Doctor in this episode. Like, anyone could’ve been in that sleep pod and it wouldn’t have changed anything. Okay, I got to be blunt about this: This is Clara’s last season, right? Why is it that she seems to be doing so little throughout these episodes? Don’t let that above picture fool you, she really just seemed there in this episode. Here though… it just kills the creepy factor. In fact, “Sleep No More” seemed like it wanted to be a new “Blink” and while it did get some good atmosphere, one of the big things about the Weeping Angels is that we didn’t know where they came from. It’s creation there, the Weeping Angels, brought a terrifying new element to the Who canon and even that episode utilized interesting camera work to bring out another layer of terror. One of the highest regarded episode in New Who is “Blink” and rightly so. Turns out the scientist that created the sleep pods that gave birth to… these things… is actually evil and that they are the next step and that humans will be their food and blah blah blah blah!ĭoctor Who can make the mundane and ordinary terrifying. Look, I know I seem to be harping about this, but there really wasn’t that much more to this episode. You know, until I found out that the monsters were evolved, carnivorous eye boogers, which just caused me to stare into the abyss and think “This is what I’ve been doing with my Saturday nights.” Combining this with the aforementioned found footage concept, it does create a great deal of creepy moments when the Doctor, Clara and everyone else are on the run… Even the designs of the monster are pretty good and, especially around the mouth, invoke the famous Xenomorph in really good and fun ways. The dark, claustrophobic, mutated atmosphere of the space station.

#DOCTOR WHO SLEEP NO MORE MOVIE#

I think writer Mark Gatiss is a fan of the movie Aliens. You know, I hope everyone is having a great time over at Thought Bubble in Leeds!

Doctor who sleep no more