Review Oxygen (2017)

[Doctor Omega]

Your thoughts on this story....

When the Doctor, Bill and Nardole become trapped on a space station without oxygen, they discover the spacesuits are trying to kill them.

On to the next story....

EXTREMIS/THE PYRAMID AT THE END OF THE WORLD/THE LIE OF THE LAND....

https://www.imdforums.com/threads/e...d-of-the-world-the-lie-of-the-land-2017.2444/


Back to the previous story....

KNOCK KNOCK....

https://www.imdforums.com/threads/knock-knock-2017.2336/

 

[Doctor Omega]

Looks suspiciously like a rehash of previous race against the clock episodes. 42 definitely springs to mind, with a dash of The Waters of Mars thrown in.

 

[Hux]

Pretty dull. Last five seconds were the most interesting.

 

[The Seeker]

It had capitalism bashing. I love that! The CEO of Nestle wants us to pay for water, paying for air is the next step.

 

[ant-mac]

OXYGEN.

So far this series, this is easily my favourite serial - much better than anything that has gone before. In fact, it is easily a contender for my favourite Peter Capaldi serial - period. It was good to see Nardole was back in the action, Bill was also far less irritating and the Doctor was in fine form too. I find them much more effective when they are all in it together. I think that the three of them play off one another wonderfully.

I also found the setting quite realistically done, considering the obvious limitations of the budget. In fact, I positively loved the visual imagery used in the pre-title sequence. The rest of the serial wasn’t bad either. I thought it was quite a clever twist on the Zombie genre.

And the ending was great. A nice twist - although it wasn’t too hard to see it coming…

Sorry.

 

[Doctor Omega]

I just finally watched Oxygen - and thought it was the best episode this season so far.

The four guest actors were competent for once - and Nardole came into his own, actually having a character for once, rather than just being comic relief. Pearl Mackie continues her sterling work. Capaldi starts to truly shine at last, starting to do what I feel to be his best work near the end of his run.

Spoiler

The blindness is an interesting twist. I suspect that he will be blind until the end of his run too.

Spoiler

The metaphor of "suits" was pure sci fi in a good way. The Bill breathing vacuum scene was, I think, the best directed scene in the entire thing.

Overall, I liked it. Will be surprised if next week's is as good though. We shall see.

 

[chainsaw_metal1]

I just got to see it tonight (due to circumstances beyond my control, work ran very long last Saturday night, and BBC America only plays it twice). I also thought this to be the best of the series, and liked both the commentary on capitalism, as well as the twist on zombies. As for...

Spoiler

The Doctor being blind, I hope this doesn't last till the end. A couple of episodes, okay, but I don't know about keeping him that way for the rest of his run.

 

[Doctor Omega]

I remember the spacesuits being the gimmick and the Doctor being blinded(?) but I can't recall anything else about this show.

 

[Doctor Omega]

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