Doctor Who: The Beast Below

I wrote most of this post on Sunday immediately after it aired, but then through a combination of getting distracted repeatedly, my laptop crashing repeatedly (I love Windows), and related causes, I'm only finishing and posting this post today. Tomorrow, the next episode is being aired, so this is just in time!

Anyway...

To put it very briefly: setting, design, characters, dialogue, ideas, almost everything = AMAZING. Seriously, I loved it.

However: pacing, pacing's effects on plot = what D:

Mainly, I think this episode suffers from trying to cram too much into a single episode. The idea is amazing, with enough material for a two-parter. It has too much material for a one-parter.

( Spoilerific ponderings ahoy! )