Spyfall part 1
Jan. 4th, 2020 12:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daibhidc(I've got to get round to getting a Whittaker logo icon, haven't I?)
That certainly managed to pack a lot of stuff into an hour. I liked the Sheffield scenes establishing how the fam maintain their regular lives while also being companions, even if it was mostly handwaving it. The attacked-spy scenes were a bit clichéd (especially the World's Most Suspicious Handing Over Of a Sponge Bag) but they got the point across. The guest stars were cool, Stephen Fry was an excellent Colone... sorry, C, and Lenny Henry made a great possible-villain, even if I was a bit disappointed he wasn't playing Rudy Zoom,
The effects used for the aliens entering our reality were effective, and the James Bond pastiche at the party was great, especially the minor detail that the Doctor has approximated the tuxedo look out of Eleventh's tweed bow tie and Twelfth's magician coat.
And then, O my goodness....
I sort of saw O as double agent coming, since C had basically said so, and the Doctor said the first rule of spycraft was to trust no-one, and then trusted him. I did not see him being the Master coming. I'm looking forward to finding out where that's going. (Yes, despite the evidence of 2017, this has got me intrigued enough to assume it is actually going somewhere. ICBW.)
Questions to be answered tomorrow:
1. Where is the weird blue-fibrous place?
2. What's the deal with the dozen Earths in the Evil Plan Powerpoint? (Theory: the aliens-from-beyond-our-reality are doing this in multiple parallel universes.)
3. Will the aliens-from-beyond-our-reality unexpectedly betray the Master, meaning he has to work with the Doctor to stop them?
4. Are the aliens-from-beyond-our-reality somehow the Voord? Because they kind of look like the Voord, and Barton's company is called VOR.
5. If so, does this mean Barton is really Joshua Yartek? (Sorry.)
That certainly managed to pack a lot of stuff into an hour. I liked the Sheffield scenes establishing how the fam maintain their regular lives while also being companions, even if it was mostly handwaving it. The attacked-spy scenes were a bit clichéd (especially the World's Most Suspicious Handing Over Of a Sponge Bag) but they got the point across. The guest stars were cool, Stephen Fry was an excellent Colone... sorry, C, and Lenny Henry made a great possible-villain, even if I was a bit disappointed he wasn't playing Rudy Zoom,
The effects used for the aliens entering our reality were effective, and the James Bond pastiche at the party was great, especially the minor detail that the Doctor has approximated the tuxedo look out of Eleventh's tweed bow tie and Twelfth's magician coat.
And then, O my goodness....
I sort of saw O as double agent coming, since C had basically said so, and the Doctor said the first rule of spycraft was to trust no-one, and then trusted him. I did not see him being the Master coming. I'm looking forward to finding out where that's going. (Yes, despite the evidence of 2017, this has got me intrigued enough to assume it is actually going somewhere. ICBW.)
Questions to be answered tomorrow:
1. Where is the weird blue-fibrous place?
2. What's the deal with the dozen Earths in the Evil Plan Powerpoint? (Theory: the aliens-from-beyond-our-reality are doing this in multiple parallel universes.)
3. Will the aliens-from-beyond-our-reality unexpectedly betray the Master, meaning he has to work with the Doctor to stop them?
4. Are the aliens-from-beyond-our-reality somehow the Voord? Because they kind of look like the Voord, and Barton's company is called VOR.
5. If so, does this mean Barton is really Joshua Yartek? (Sorry.)
