If this week's "Doctor Who" felt faster, fizzier and more imaginative than the recent norm it's because author Neil Gaiman ("Coraline," "Neverwhere") was back to ace his second stint writing for the show.
Gaiman's "The Doctor's Wife" -- in which the Tardis took human-like form and bantered with the Doctor -- was a standout back in 2011. He follows that marvel with an only slightly less impressive installment re-imagining the Cybermen.
They're one of the Doctor's greatest foes, but we haven't seen the Cybermen since "Closing Time," the penultimate episode of Season 6. Now they're back -- and upgraded -- for the penultimate episode of Season 7. In Gaiman's script, the lumbering robo-warriors are lightning fast terrors reawakened from slumber by icky little Cyber-mites to wreak havoc in a rundown outer space amusement park. There's nary a "You will be deleted" to be heard.
However, the true genius twist of "Nightmare in Silver...
Gaiman's "The Doctor's Wife" -- in which the Tardis took human-like form and bantered with the Doctor -- was a standout back in 2011. He follows that marvel with an only slightly less impressive installment re-imagining the Cybermen.
They're one of the Doctor's greatest foes, but we haven't seen the Cybermen since "Closing Time," the penultimate episode of Season 6. Now they're back -- and upgraded -- for the penultimate episode of Season 7. In Gaiman's script, the lumbering robo-warriors are lightning fast terrors reawakened from slumber by icky little Cyber-mites to wreak havoc in a rundown outer space amusement park. There's nary a "You will be deleted" to be heard.
However, the true genius twist of "Nightmare in Silver...
- 5/12/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Review Simon Brew 11 May 2013 - 19:43
Neil Gaiman's second Doctor Who story brings in the Cybermen. Here's our spoiler-filled take on Nightmare In Silver...
This review contains spoilers. Our spoiler-free review is here.
Nightmare In Silver
We wonder if, having got to the end of Nightmare In Silver, that there's a core of Doctor Who fans who categorise the episode as 'not the one we expected'. We'd probably put ourselves in that camp too to an extent. We're not quite sure what we thought we were going to get when it was revealed that Neil Gaiman was reinventing the Cybermen. But Nightmare In Silver feels a little different, which is mainly a positive thing here.
The whole episode, after all, was bathed in sci-fi. The setting of a futuristic theme park - Hedgewick's World Of Wonders here (which, by the map, looked like it would be an ace day...
Neil Gaiman's second Doctor Who story brings in the Cybermen. Here's our spoiler-filled take on Nightmare In Silver...
This review contains spoilers. Our spoiler-free review is here.
Nightmare In Silver
We wonder if, having got to the end of Nightmare In Silver, that there's a core of Doctor Who fans who categorise the episode as 'not the one we expected'. We'd probably put ourselves in that camp too to an extent. We're not quite sure what we thought we were going to get when it was revealed that Neil Gaiman was reinventing the Cybermen. But Nightmare In Silver feels a little different, which is mainly a positive thing here.
The whole episode, after all, was bathed in sci-fi. The setting of a futuristic theme park - Hedgewick's World Of Wonders here (which, by the map, looked like it would be an ace day...
- 5/10/2013
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
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