Some of them do meet a rather gruesome end, but The Old Guy manages to defeat them and the survivors flee the station.Īs for Rasmussen, he tells us that we shouldn't have watched, but since we did, we now will show this to our family and friends, and as he dissolves into the Sandman he always was, he tells us there is something there, in the corner of our eye. They essentially consumed the crew, but why not Rasmussen? Now the crew has to stop the 'Sandmen' as they are dubbed by the main character (Clara) from eating them as well. Sandman (which given the story is set in the 38th Century, would be a song close to 2000 years old).Īnyway, we discover there are monsters on the station, and The Old Guy makes the deduction that they are formed from the sleep dust collected from our eyes, the Morpheus process giving them life into carnivorous lifeforms. This horrifies The Old Guy, especially since the machine takes the star for a while and for reasons that must have appeared hilarious to our old friend Marky Mark, plays Mr. At first, Nagata is distrustful of these two figures, wondering of they are Space Pirates.Īs a side note, anytime someone name drops one of the worst Classic Doctor Who stories, again we're in deep trouble.Īnyway, Some Old Guy is horrified to see that Rasmussen, the only original crew member still around, has created the Morpheus Device, a machine that compresses regular sleep in a few minutes. Into the space station stumble Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman) and her Companion, Some Old Guy (Peter Capaldi). They are Commander Nagata (Elaine Tan), Officer Chopra (Neet Mohan), jokester Deep-Ando (Paul Courtenay Hyu) and the humanoid 474 (Bethany Black), a grunt grown with low intelligence and brute force.

There are four soldiers who've arrived aboard the Le Verrier to investigate the sudden disappearance of the crew. Incidentally, when Rasmussen tells us that, it is really writer and self-professed genius Mark Gatiss warning us he was going to give us an hour's worth of crap.Īnyway, Rasmussen tells us he's cobbled together footage from various sources to show us what happened aboard the Le Verrier Space Station. In a 'found footage' style, Gagen Rasmussen (Reece Shearsmith) tells us from the get-go 'You must not watch this', but watch we do. Sleep No More shows just how bad Doctor Who has become, an episode that tries to be 'hip' by using a dying genre to be 'current' but only ends up being insulting to longtime fans and new converts. Sleep No More IS horrible, but in a shockingly inept, clumsy, stupid, pandering manner, a story that is simultaneously cringe and laugh-inducing. Sleep No More is not horrible in a Death in Heaven or In the Forest of the Night or Love & Monsters bad. I suspect that if he went with his usual 'this is the GREATEST DOCTOR WHO EPISODE OF ALL TIME, better than last week's, which was the last GREATEST DOCTOR WHO EPISODE OF ALL TIME until next week, when that one will be the GREATEST DOCTOR WHO EPISODE OF ALL TIME' shtick, even those followers of his who think he's brilliant would think he was insane (or what he is: a lackey). It also could be that Sleep No More was just so flat-out bad even he couldn't sugarcoat it.

His negative review could also have come from the fact that Anderson has an unofficial rule of 'one negative review per season' to keep his cred up. Therefore, his negative review may have been a way to show that he could, on occasion, be 'highly critical when warranted'. His negative review could have come about because I in particular had openly criticized him for rarely if ever criticizing anything Doctor Who, especially anything Moffat-related. Of course, a negative Kyle Anderson review of a Doctor Who episode should be taken with a boatload of salt. Welcome to a Doctor Who episode so horrible even The Whorist's Kyle Anderson, a man who blocked me on Twitter for making fun of his eternal cheerleading masquerading as objective reviews, found repellent.

Dr. who sleep no more