Doctor Who XXXIII(7)B.1: The Bells of Saint John

[sir_guinglain]

Officers and cars respond to urgent calls; or all calls, depending on how the TARDIS is feeling.

Anyway, my thoughts on the story will be appearing at the Doctor Who News Page reviews section, I hope, in the not-too-distant future. They are generally positive.

ETA: Here's the review: apologies for the lack of formatting and the use of 'St John' rather than the canonical 'Saint John'.

Comments

[sally_maria]

I enjoyed it, in my usual, not terribly critical, way.

I loved the monks and actual meaning of the Bells, and thought the adversaries were pitched just right - genuinely scary, but plausible as pawns of the Great Intelligence.

[sir_guinglain]

Fantastic, as someone used to say (and maybe will again).

The one thing I didn't spot were the visual links to The Matrix, perhaps because they've become so commonplace now. I would have added a comparison between the way Miss Kizlet is able to turn facets of 'integrated' personalities up and down and the waves of herd behaviour which can be seen on social networking, rising up and then vanishing as if there is a puppetmaster pulling participants' strings.