Can You Hear Me?

Couldn't wait until this episode was over. It was so boring. The doctor needs a makeover and get some new clothes. The companions need to be terminated, now that could make a good episode. Perhaps one of the earlier companions could be bought back. Bring back some earlier villains too. Make this show fun to watch again!

Based on the trailers, this was the episode I was probably least enthusiastic about, but it turned out to be much better than I expected, unlike Praxeus, which looked great in trailers.

I think this would have benefited from a longer running time, there were some awesome concepts, and some truly great visuals, with more time to develop this would have worked much better.

Stunning visuals, this episode looked fabulous, how much of the budget was used here, this truly was impressive to look at. I liked that we had an introduction to the story before the opening credits. An excellent villain, and secondary villain. I found myself reminded somewhat of Amy's Choice, with the Dream Lord, and Enlightenment, but that's no bad thing.

I loathe the TARDIS interior, I would expect travelling through time and space with those lights they'd all have headaches, the interior they introduced for the new Doctor in the Judoon episode was amazing, this one really is a mess.

The Doctor's reaction to Graham's cancer was poorly judged, The Doctor has ways been awkward, but always cared about humanity, and companions, this scene was badly written.

A visual feast, with a very good menace. Thought this was rather good. 8/10

Graham talking about his fear of cancer and the doctor as a healer is just responding awkwardly.

In these moments the real character of a person is shown and if this is the character of this doctor it's Just a horrible doctor.

The writing of this new incarnation is underwhelming and makes me think that Chris Chapnell never understood what the Doctor stands for.

A cunning pair of gods or immortals, play games with the mind and its portals, sticking fingers in pies, any orifice they prise, you'd cry if it didn't make you chortle.

A recurring theme with this series is the episode's tendency to start with a certain degree of interest before it completely derails because it spirals into a pool of not knowing what is going on.

This episode continued this disastrous trend for the show. It appears to me that the writers combine several episodes into one, because the standalone episodes are somehow even worse than what gets produced, and when they do produce what gets recklessly thrown into the pot, it's a complete shambles.

Can you hear me? had good concepts with poor execution. The flow of the episode was nonsensical, from going to a ship of prisoners in one scene, then finding out one second later that they've randomly decided to take over the planet. It's painful to watch (and even more painful to write about) because it's immensely confusing and aimless at the same time. The fact Jodie is being used to describe the plot, rather than having it being told through what's shown on screen, is definitive of this episode being the worst assembled of the season.