The Power of Three Squee Post

[blue_aeon]

Here's your squee post for The Power of Three, on at 7.30pm GMT. This is probably the episode I know the least about beforehand, aside from the fact that the title keeps making me think of Charmed (blame my mother, she got hooked on it a few months back).

Squee, complain or dive behind the sofa. Although I suppose the last one would only be necessary if you happen to have a deathly fear of small black boxes.

Comments

[miss_s_b]

Well, this makes TWO Chibnall episodes inna row that I have liked. As my friend Richard said on twitter, it's the ultimate who lesson: everything changes, everyone can learn.

Also Brian is made of awesome. ALMOST as awesome as Wilf.
Also also I nearly cried at the little conversation between Kate and the Doctor about her dad.
Also also also ZYGONS!

[blue_aeon]

This was an odd episode for me. The build-up was fantastic - all the nods to popular culture were very amusing (like the Cubes getting Twitter accounts). I loved Brian to pieces in this episode; my sister or brother - I forget which, they were both to my right - asked why he can't be the companion, and I concur! The Doctor getting bored and playing the Wii (thank heavens it wasn't an Xbox and Kinect, I don't think the world is ready for Matt Smith playing Dance Central). I also liked Kate from the get-go, and then it was revealed who her father was. Brilliant touch. I really hope we get to see her again.

My main problems where with the resolution, which raised too many questions for my liking (although I did miss some of the exposition because my Nanna chose that precise moment to open a packet of sweets VERY. LOUDLY. So I couldn't hear it):-

1) How did no-one notice a young girl hanging around the waiting room for at least a month?
2) What was the deal with the air-vent-mouth guys?
3) What happened to the other people on beds in the spaceship? Did they just leave them?
4) Come to think of it, why did they take that guy from the hospital bed in first place?
5) Is it just me or did the Shakri seem a little... flat as a villain?

Surprisingly, the resurrection of the heart attack victims via the cubes was the thing I had the least problem with - I make a point of not questioning the ability of alien tech whose method of attack involves playing the Birdy Song.

[amphigorym_2011]

I really liked this one, from Rory in his pants surrouned by military police to Brian keeping a log to watch what the cubes were doing, to The Doctor telling Amy why he kept coming back. I agree with Brian being made a companion (though I'm still convinced that, at the end of "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship,' when he was sending Rory and Amy all those postcards, he was actually off traveling with The Doctor (ifyou look closely, one of the one's Amy pins to the board is from Siluria).

And as a long-time who watcher, I adored that The Brig's daughter is now running UNIT, and trying to make it more science based than the fighting force it was later turned into. it'd nice to see that someone at the BBC still pays attention to tontinuity.