![]() ![]() If someone has to narrate the bloody thing, you've done it wrong. We can see they have to do this to set up the ending they want, but to us it's a complete waste of a found footage format. ![]() How often has this been used before? Rasmussen, meanwhile, continues with his infodump. People with guns, deserted station, darkness. It’s great that she's there, but it's a shame it was in such a flabby episode. The best thing we can say about the characters is that Bethany Black is the first transgender actor to appear in Doctor Who. Then they introduce a bunch of forgettable redshirts who get so little character development that we couldn't care less when they meet their inevitable fates. No objection from us, except retrospectively when we realised they would have been the best part. We didn't have any trouble with a), but we heard reports that other people did. It can be effective if a) you don't make the audience seasick and b) it's done right. Well, yeah, but everybody else has had a go, so it doesn't really qualify as thrillingly ground-breaking. Mark Gatiss was apparently all "It's never been done in Doctor Who before!". The found footage part we were less enthusiastic about. These are people who know scary! Promising, right? Who doesn't love Reece Shearsmith? Not only was he with Mark Gatiss a member of the sublime League Of Gentlemen, he co-wrote and starred as that series' most pants-wettingly terrifying character Papa Lazarou. It's also not clever, it's not logical, and above all it's not entertaining. Sorry, did we say Sleep No More? We meant to say Snorepheus.īecause it's not just not scary. And we still weren't scared by Sleep No More. Bear also in mind that two of us had to watch New Zealand win the Rugby World Cup recently only after they knew the result because they couldn’t stand the suspense. Bear in mind that none of us like horror movies because we find them too scary. Which is more effect than the actual episode had. Shouldn't we be moving him out of the mediocre category and into the bad?" We're not sure a mediocre episode is better than a terrible one: it's probably more involving being outraged than bored. "He's not the worst Who writer." That's true, we agreed. Ergo, we weren't exactly tingling with anticipation. The dark heart of this enigma: how in God's name does Mark Gatiss keep getting invited back to write Doctor Who? Whatever anyone in the press is saying, that's the reason we chose you.There's an engrossing mystery at the heart of Sleep No More that kept us on the edge of our seats to the end of the episode and beyond. I just want you to know that we chose you because you were the best person for the part. He went, 'A lot of stuff's being said in the press. Andy Pryor texted me within 24 hours of the press release going out. ( TV: Sleep No More)ĭespite being played by Bethany Black, a transgender actress, the character of 474 is identified as a cisgender woman in DWM 493. She was also highly durable, being able to walk through a fire without suffering any injuries. She could effortlessly subdue a normal human, slam a door shut or carry a person on her shoulders. ( TV: Sleep No More)Ĥ74, like all Grunts, was gifted with a superhuman level of physical strength and was easily capable of holding her own against multiple Sandmen in direct combat, though they eventually overwhelmed her with their sheer numbers. She eventually gave her life to save him. She was also the first one to notice that one of the Morpheus Pods was not empty and was occupied by Gagan Rassmussen.Ĥ74 also proved capable of affection and was especially loyal to Chopra, whom she fancied, despite his constant rejection. ![]() ( TV: Sleep No More)Ĥ74, like all Grunts, had a tendency to leave words out of her sentences, and use the incorrect form of a word, such as "anger" in place of "angry", much to the irritation of the other soldiers.ĭespite the others repeatedly claiming that Grunts possessed limited intelligence and were downright stupid, 474 was the first one to notice that they were being constantly spied upon by an unknown party which turned out to be the dust that made up the Sandmen. She fought off the Sandmen after telling Chopra to go but was killed in the process. Cornered between attacking Sandmen and a fire, 474 knocked out Chopra and carried him through the fire to safety, seriously injuring 474 in the process. While on the mission, Osamu Aimi-Chopra, another member of the crew, fell under 474's fancy, and she stayed with Chopra even when they became separated from the rest of the crew. A five-year-old Grunt labelled 474 was assigned to a rescue crew in the 38th century. ![]()
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