The Halloween Apocalypse notes
Extended edition
Karvanista – we don’t get to see him at first to preserve
the dog surprise
Very samurai inspired outline
He conveniently tells them it will be the final hours of
planet earth but not that he isn’t causing it
Nitro 9 shout out.
I totally buy them taking a high gravity acrobatic class
This whole opening action sequence is fun, but the CGI feels
a little off
Love them riding the broken bar like broomsticks
It looked like the TARDIS was on a raft, but it wouldn’t
need to be, would it?
The relief release gag is funny
Liverpool 1820 – Williamson is having tunnels dug out.
What is Williamson creating?
Clearly he has a big plan
I bet Williamson is actually trying to do something good and
just seems creepy because we don’t have context
Liverpool 2021 – cool Museum
We’re supposed to think he’s a guide, but he’s just super
into the city’s history
I like that they don’t make any kind of deal about Di’s
disability. Even making her Dan’s
romantic interest. Good on them.
The TARDIS doesn’t want to go to Earth
Swarm reactivates the psychic connection with the Doctor
just in time for her to watch him escape.
Is his escape why the Earth is about to be destroyed? This all feels much more coincidental than it
actually is. He must know he’s about to
escape based on opening the link for the doctor to watch
Burnished Rage battleground.
The guards work for Division – That’s who the Doctor worked
for.
Cool effect for him exploding them with his mind
I love how asymmetrical the design for Swarm is
They’re really making Swarm feel like a proper big menace.
And now the TARDIS is bleeding black goo?
So what is the black goo that’s bleeding in?
They’re making Dan a little too carefully
crafted/ideal. Poor, volunteering at the
food bank
Dan: Wilma, who likes
soup? Really?
What black shape just went by?
That must have been Karvanista, right? Or something as yet unexplained?
How has Dan gotten to this point? He owns a home, so he was OK at some point
The Lupari
I love how not impressed Dan is by Karvanista
Does the mind control glove normally work on humans
The klittle nose wiggle
Karvanista: You defile the sacred legacy of my forebears!
Dan: You don’t look anything like four bears.
Cool little stasis cube
Klopp era? I just
don’t know the references for these jokes
Wait, did the Doctor head for Earth and they just happened
to land right by Dan’s house?
Funny how they deduce he’s single.
Red must be a football thing
They’re really doing a nice bait and switch making us think
the Lupari are invading
Why was he ahead of them?
It seems weird that Karvanista left the laptop, but they
sort of explain it well enough later
Arctic Circle. How
would they have built that house and how do they ever get supplies? Who are these people?
‘They’ promised this would never happen. That has to be a warning from the Division,
doesn’t it? Probably not a great plan to
ignore it.
I kind of like Karvanista
Dan: I’m going to
report you for kidnapping. What do you
think about that?
Karvanista: Well,
that’s what’s happening, so… fine.
They’re giving these two all the best banter lines
Very clever how they’re making all the ‘you’re mine’ stuff
feel sinister when really he’s just explaining that Dan’s his pet
The Doctor is tracking down Karvanista to get info on the
Division
LOVE the stuff with Claire.
It’s the same scene from Blink from the other perspective.
Claire is INSTANTLY likable. She should be the new companion
She describes herself as taking the long way home – Moffat
reference
They don’t show very clearly the extra doors in odd places
in the console room
What is Claire’s story?
I’m itching to know
Final adjustment means hit it with a mallet. I wonder how long they’ve been off together
since revolution
Yaz is much less inclined to let the doctor evade questions
now that it’s just the two of them. I
like that.
Good on Yaz for refusing to be distracted by the Doctor
evading the question
Temporal residue around K.’s ship. That’s a clue
*** Too much out of the ordinary tonight.
And now Claire’s encountered a weeping angel after
referencing their first episode several times
Subtle the way they use Claire’s muttering to herself to
explain how the angels work on the off chance someone doesn’t know.
Nice that they’ve stripped back the gimmicks and returned
the angels to factory settings
I really thought Claire would get away
Observation Outpost Rose.
Eye roll.
Officer Vinder. It’s
nice that even though he’s super bored he can still appreciate the beauty
Vinder: In all other
respects, I conclude this report with my usual sign-off request that you all go
to Hell.
Is Vinder Human? He
can’t be if no time travel is involved with the Logopolis wave
It’s very like the antimatter wave in Crisis on Infinite
Earths
Really nice cut to the wave crashing. Reinforces the image of violence in the
energy wave while underscoring the metaphor
How does Swarm travel?
Is he the wave, or did he trigger the wave, or what?
I bet that arctic circle dude was Division
Ooo, great twist reveal that the woman we thought was his
victim was really his sister in hiding
Very Día De Los Muertos influence in the makeup
Leftover Hopper virus is a deep cut callback
Loving the constant exasperation dynamic with Yaz/Doctor
Really great timing on the reveal that the Lupari aren’t
invading.
Yaz has gotten good at spotting booby traps
Formerly PC Khan.
She’s given up on her career?
Dan:
Hallamshire. What, like
Sheffield?
Yaz: Why, what’s the
matter with Sheffield?
Dan: Too near Leeds.
The regional shade throwing is cute
Karvanista is the last Division operative alive?
‘Species Recall’
Lupari are species bonded to humanity. I like that
Every Lupar has a designated human
Karvanista: Just
because we have to save them doesn’t mean I have to like them. They’re infuriating.
The Flux is a hurricane ripping through the universe. It basically is the wave of entropy from
Logopolis
We’re assuming Swarm triggered the Flux, but did he?
Was Williamson building something in Liverpool that can stop
this?
Where the Flux started is going to be relevant, they raised
the question then dismissed it.
What caused the time distortion that jumped Karvanista
ahead.
SO many direct quotes to past episodes . Nice to meet you Dan, Run for your life!
What’s the significance of all the extra doors?
Did Dan really have a mate who had a TARDIS?
Thirty Trillion light years away
George C. Scott as a Sontaran
These Sontarans are a lot more like the initial Time Warrior
model
What do the Sontarans imagine they’ll get out of the Flux
Dan: What, is it
alive?
Yaz: No idea. But they do chat.
Cloister bell – first heard in Logopolis. Coincidence?
Really lovely shot of random aliens being destroyed with
their world. That’s a nice touch that they
didn’t have to do
Swarm was apparently an old enemy of the Doctor in their
Division days
Why is the Doctor leading the flux to Earth?
Poor Diane thinks she’s been stood up
Why did Swarm’s sister kidnap Diane?
We never did get asn answer for what the black goo was
The interlockling ships – very Guardians of the galaxy
So Earth is cocooned inside the armor made of ships/
Kind of cute nod to days passed – the vortex energy could
have saved everything as a Deus ex machina, but then fizzled out
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