Urgh! Creepy dolls! Really freaky looking dolls actually!
So just a quick note before I talk about this episode. You may have noticed that some days have been skipped on the blog recently. Well don't start thinking I've screwed things up at the last minute. All will be explained in due course.
Mark Gatiss returns to writing for the show after the pretty disappointing Victor Of The Daleks in the previous year. I have to say that this episode isn't all that great either I'm afraid. Not to blame the kid in this story but I just think that episodes which centre around a child in some way just tend to be pretty terrible. Actually I've just thought about how brilliant The Empty Child is so I've proven myself wrong straight away there! But unfortunately for every Empty Child there is a Delta And The Bannermen.
So the the young lad in this episode, George, is terrified of everything and somehow manages to send a message to the psychic paper in the TARDIS asking for someone to come and save him from the monsters. It's alright he turns out to be an alien which somehow explains how he is able to send a message to the Doctor. All the things that frighten him are put in his cupboard and it's not long before his own dad and the Doctor are soon sucked inside the cupboard too.
And that's about it really. The rest is a bit of a run around a spooky doll house with the aforementioned creepy dolls singing even creepier tunes and turning anyone they catch into similarly creepy dolls. I've said creepy a lot there. Did I mention they were creepy?
This isn't a fantastic story but it does have some good moments. I particularly like some of the scenes between the Doctor and George's father as they both start to realise that the monsters inside George's cupboard are real. I think there is something so terrifying in that. Kids look to their parents for reassurance so to have them turn round and tell you your monsters are real is pretty damn scary!
Yeah can't really think about much more to say about this one, except kids in Doctor Who irritate me a bit. Still at least it wasn't Fear Her.
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