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The conceit was that you weren't watching an episode of Doctor Who tonight you were watching a video transmitted by the Shearsmith character.

The video showed the Doctor and Co being chased by Sandmen.

The big reveal was that the Sandmen are created by an electronic signal sent to people's brain which was embedded in the video you have been watching.

We're all doomed !!!

People criticising something that's in the Moffat era doesn't mean that they are massive RTD lovies that see no fault in his era, why must there be this RTD vs Moffat comparison, I can't speak for anyone else but I just judge things as I see it and for me the idea of sleep dust monsters didn't work.

I liked that end concept but it all came in the last two minutes of the show..the rest was a tensionless bore-fest for me.

The show seldom trended on Twitter throughout Series 8...and Series 7 had the advantage of two "opening episodes" and a 50th anniversary on its tail.

Even so, it's currently 22:37 and the show currently is trending. Sleep No More is fifth in the UK, #DrWho is ninth in the London region.

What the hell was that??? Poor. Didn't understand it and don't want to put myself through the agony of watching it again to try and figure what was going on.

No, I've not responded because if you read my post again you'll see that I wasn't directly referring to you.
I said - And, as usual, it's the same posters who slag off the show, same as they do every week. Fine, these people don't like current Doctor Who. Sure, it's not to everyone's taste. But if you know you don't like the current season and have already decided that you won't like a Mark Gatiss story then why do you put yourself through the obvious pain of watching the thing?

I was referring, in general, to a number of people. Perhaps, to be clearer, I should have said "If one doesn't like the current season and have already decided that one won't watch a Mark Gatiss story...." but that just sounds a bit silly.

How did she get there?

well they explained in the episode at the time that the tendrils had an intelligence and sensed that Clara needed to sleep.

forgot about almost instantly?

Not really, this was the crux of the episode and how there appeared to be a camera from Clara's point of view. The Doctor referenced it later in the episode as why Clara's point of view was in the scenes, when both his and the other soldier never head a "helmet cam" moment.

I must admit it, the menace sounded very similar to dust-like Vashta Nerada that ate people within seconds, piranha-like in the 10th Doctor story Silence in the Library (River Song's intro).

Agreed. I almost feel we watched a prequel like they used to make for online, so the real episode should show the Doctor following these signals and/or conquering the growing number of sandmen evolving from people who watched that transmission.

Well, enjoyable enough, in the end. One mainly for the younger audience, and probably one of the lower budget eps in the run.

Probably the Daily Mail will post outrage from parents who can't get their kids to go to sleep..

Who's the we? You're not including me I hope? I've never met you and you've never canvassed my opinion, so it seems remarkably high handed to presume to speak on my behalf. Please don't.

I'm a little confused. I remember an episode in 2008 when the Tardis towed the earth from one position in space to another, and apart from a bit of turbulence, nobody upon the earth suffered any adverse consequences from the planet being pulled away from the solar system and then moved back again later....

I also remember an episode in 2007 where lots of people simply 'believed' in the Doctor and he went from a tiny Gollum-like creature back into David Tennant....

Not to mention the wonky sets and dreadful acting I seem to remember during the 1980's era of the show....

It's fine not to like the current era. But let's not pretend its uniquely different and uniquely bad. Doctor Who has always been a fairly preposterous premise and tenuous sc-fi elements. Today's Who is arguably more sophisticated and professionally produced than previous eras, but it still has its fair share of ridiculous stories, that's part of it's charm. It's not House of Cards or Breaking Bad, it never has been.

Meanwhile, (first post after 3 years lurking) welcome to the forum.

Ah, Ok.
Thanks for the clarification.

There's this odd clan mentality amongst people that is utterly pointless. So many people seem to think that if you really dislike one writer/episode/idea, then another is absolutely superb.

If you think Death in Heaven was rubbish, then you're the sort of person who probably enjoys crap like Doomsday.

If you hate an episode like Journey's End, then The Wedding of River Song is probably more your sort of thing.

If you think David Cameron is a d*ck, then you must think sunshine comes out of Corbyn's proverbial.

People just seem to think in absolutes, often regardless of subject matter. Even on this page someone refers to us as a collective 'we' when sharing their opinion, as if their opinion applies across the board. I try to ignore these self-important people, but it goes to show how worryingly narrow-minded the majority of people are.

Just the first 3/4s.... a so-so middle of the road episode.

...with the last 5 minutes, a great episode, making sense of *why* it was filled with cliched Dr Who tropes and semi-coherent story.

A "little bored throughout, but loved it in retrospect" sort of episode.

You're right but I also think there is more significance of clara being pulled into the pod. The Doctor made a comment about how she needed to sleep, and then when he was talking about sleep and death later on he looked right at clara. Added to that is the name morpheus - God of dreams - and this again links into ashildr (using dream state to defeat her foe) and clara dreaming up at different reality in asylum of the daleks. Whilst it was a stand alone episode there is a common theme.

I don't it was the poll that was the problem.
It was the fact that you had a hissy fit when people calmly pointed out the problem, it was you that escalated it, it's all there in black & white, you then preceded to made a thread out of spite and then purposely disappeared. That's what irked people. The only person 'childish' in the whole thing was you.
You make your bed, you lie in it. Be prepared to take some ribbing in jest.
Now, if you'd been mature about it, took the advice and took any criticism on the chin, the story would've been totally different.

Really atmospheric and spooky. I love how the monsters were shot. That last shot - poor kids, never mind the sofa, they'll be hiding in the attic after that one.

All those people with their weird agenda against the current production crew should go watch Dragonfire. It had a lot of similar situations (monster in corridors, melting people, crazy leader). Watch it (if you actually can, I found it painfull) and then compare how it was made to tonight's episode. Then come back to us on how this is the worst era in the programmes history.

Not the attic, that's where the ear wax monsters live

I didn't delete the thread? DS mods did lol are we still going on about this? Change the record

I like dr who,
this episode was poor, in my opinion.
really poor.

I never get tired of the bickering on here...it really breaks up the boring stuff like people's opinions and theories on the show itself.

I agree. Weakest of the season in my opinion. But I still enjoyed several parts / aspects of the story. And next week's looks very promising.