It's magical TV, the kind that makes you feel eight years old again and, ending with a season preview to end all previews, it looks like there's plenty more where that came from.Ĭheck out the teaser trailer for The Little Mermaid, the upcoming live-action reimagining of the animated musical classic. As the Doctor takes to the rooftops in the closing minutes against Gold's euphoric staccato score, stepping through a bubble of Time Lords past to caution the Atraxi, "Basically… run", it's proper goose bump stuff. Sure, its 65 minute run-time felt more of an extravagance than a necessity, but "The Eleventh Hour" is wondrous in so many ways. Angelo, Arthur Darvill's Rory and Tom Hopper's Jeff. "The Eleventh Hour" also finds time to sow the seeds for this season's intriguing story arc and offers an assured introduction to Amy's band of supporting characters, including Annette Crosbie's Mrs. Where things win out, though, is in the little details, with a pace and lightness of touch that positively crackle with infectious energy, thanks to countless classic Moffat one-liners ("You're Scottish, fry something") and a tone that fulfills all the promise of a dark fairytale - particularly evident in the show's simply gorgeous Burton-esque cinematography and a genuinely excellent score from series' stalwart Murray Gold. No, it certainly isn't perfect, with a saggy midsection and slightly naff CGI effects baring the brunt of any remaining criticism. With Prisoner Zero on the loose and captors the Atraxi poised to obliterate the Earth should their charge not be returned immediately, a whole bunch of disparate elements - from coma patients, mobile phones and computer viruses - hurtle in and out of the picture, never really gelling into a satisfying whole.
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With menace-of-the-week revealed to be the escaped shape-shifting Prisoner Zero, having slipped through the crack in time and space in Amy's wall, it's fair to say that the extraterrestrial calamity plot is the weakest link in an otherwise superb opening episode. More so when, 12 years later, we meet the wary, cynical grown-up Amy, we're instantly given more insight into a companion character than we've ever had before.
Yet, there are poignant moments too as young Amy waits in vain for the Doctor's return. With typically creepy Moffat touches hitting early on in the shape of a mysterious crack in the wall and something sinister lurking just out of view, it's classic behind-the-sofa stuff. Introduced through a clever plot device which squeezed 12 years of back-story into 20 minutes of screen time, we first meet Amy as a young girl, all wide-eyed innocence, as the Doctor's malfunctioning TARDIS tumbles back in time, crash landing in the garden of her eerie country cottage. Meanwhile, Karen Gillan's beautiful, feisty Amy Pond slipped equally snugly into the vacant companion role.
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