![]() ![]() The pods, we’re told, are the Morpheus devices which compress a full night’s sleep into five minutes, and as Clara investigates further she is pulled into one. We soon discover the station isn’t deserted as they are all surprised by a mob of unknown monsters and with that they rapidly bolt, ending up in a room of pods where the Doctor scans some of the matter left behind by the monsters he reveals it’s organic and it’s technically the sleep from the corner of your eye. In the abandoned lab the rescue crew find both the Doctor and Clara wandering around the deserted station too. Witnessing a rescue crew bickering aboard a shuttle, Rassmussen informs us that this crew have been sent from Triton to search for him. In Sleep No More, Professor Rassmussen (Reece Shearsmith) informs us that, “We must not watch this!” as he speaks to us via a video he’s cobbled together of the events that unfolded aboard the space-station he resides upon in the orbit of Neptune. ![]() My normal run down of Doctor Who reviews is a very detailed programme recap of what was served to us over forty-five minutes to an hour, however due to the extremely poor story delivered to us by the normally brilliant Mark Gatiss – I really do hold this chap in high regard for his services to Doctor Who, however now his past two tales have been a couple of clunkers – I’ve had too break from the norm here to deliver a very much abridged version of the normal Doctor Who review those that did get to see it however will possibly be over the moon not to relive the episode. ![]() It’s a line of first’s in this week’s Doctor Who – a first ever Who where we see no opening credits, a first for Who where it’s a found footage episode all the way through and a truly first for Who were the episode was so dire I can’t believe it was actually allowed to be given any sort of budget to be filmed! The funny thing is we’re even told that, “We must not watch this!” at the beginning of the episode! Well played, Mr. I can’t imagine my late parents letting me watch this story when I was 7 or 8.Villordsutch reviews Doctor Who Series 9 Episode 9 – ‘Sleep No More’… ![]() This is probably one of the scariest episodes of modern ‘Doctor Who’ and this is to its detriment in the sense that this kind of episode excludes a rather large part of the ‘Doctor Who’ audience in as far as the children under the age of 12. But for me removing the opening credits regardless of the over synthed new theme tune from Murray Gold is removing something very important to the ‘Doctor Who’ experience. I know that they were doing this in order to punctuate the found footage style in how the episode was shot, which was really cool. One aspect I didn’t like about this story was the lack of opening credits. Remove it and you remove a vital part of the soul. Gatiss who has written a fair few of the better Doctor Who stories since the series returned in 2005 pulls another rabbit out of his hat with this story and even has Capaldi’s Doctor quoting from Macbeth when he argues against Rassmussen’s machine saying that sleep is part of what makes us human. Professor Rassmussen is every bit the classic horror villain and then some and very nearly the equal of Capaldi’s Doctor. With the rescue team, The Doctor and Clara running about trying to avoid the dreaded sandman while trying to figure out the cause of them. The episode felt a little like how you’d think a modern hammer horror movie set in space would be. We don’t see The Doctor or Clara until around 5 or 10 minutes into the episode when they tell the rescue team that they are structural engineers. The episode opens with the rescue party making their way to the space station while their leader narrates the chain of events for us. The machine however has a horrifying side effect, which four members of a rescue party learn to their horror and before The Doctor is able to solve the unsolvable problem at hand. Review: Mark Gatiss brings us this edge of your seat horror episode in which Professor Rassmussen played by Reece Shearsmith has come up with a machine that allows humanity’s workforce to carry on working with absolutely no need for sleep. Synopsis: Video recovered from a wrecked space station hides a horrifying secret. ![]()
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