Welp, just watched the latest episode (for us Aussies), which is Toby Whithouse's The God Complex. Brilliant episode marred by three factors:
1. The atmosphere isn't quite right to convey the psychological horror aspects of this story.
2. The scene where the Doctor destroys Amy's faith in him was very badly acted out for something that was supposed to be a more emotive scene. The nearest equivalent was where the Doctor deliberately breaks Ace's faith in him in The Curse of Fenric (I found that scene here, with a new musical score. It's at about 3 minutes 20 in), and while it needn't be as melodramatic as it was in Fenric, it needed to have more emotion from Amy.
3. Surely they could have come up with a better fear for Amy than that?
However, the Minotaur was an excellently realised monster, and a nice bit of linking it to the rubbishly realised Nimon from The Horns of Nimon. Plus, there's some nice deconstruction of what it is like to be a perfectly pacifistic and cowardly race. And there was a good examination of whether or not the Doctor himself has a god complex.
1. The atmosphere isn't quite right to convey the psychological horror aspects of this story.
2. The scene where the Doctor destroys Amy's faith in him was very badly acted out for something that was supposed to be a more emotive scene. The nearest equivalent was where the Doctor deliberately breaks Ace's faith in him in The Curse of Fenric (I found that scene here, with a new musical score. It's at about 3 minutes 20 in), and while it needn't be as melodramatic as it was in Fenric, it needed to have more emotion from Amy.
3. Surely they could have come up with a better fear for Amy than that?
However, the Minotaur was an excellently realised monster, and a nice bit of linking it to the rubbishly realised Nimon from The Horns of Nimon. Plus, there's some nice deconstruction of what it is like to be a perfectly pacifistic and cowardly race. And there was a good examination of whether or not the Doctor himself has a god complex.
