Doctor Who: Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror (2020)
Season 12, Episode 4
7/10
A decent episode, but still problematic.
19 January 2020
Warning: Spoilers
This episode was a strange one. It starts off pretty well with Nikola Tesla showing off his inventions to investors. But as soon as the doctor showed up it felt like I had missed about ten minutes. This episode's greatest flaw is that it's too fastly paced. And when the episode starts to slow down a little, the plot's all over the place. Yaz is used alright in this story. I liked how they paired her off with Tesla while Ryan and Graham were with the doctor. Graham had some good quotes but Ryan felt like he was invisible for most of the story. The doctor, for the first fifteen minutes just feels like a very enthusiastic history teacher. I enjoy learning history off of Doctor Who but this just felt very repetitive. I think Edison was entertaining in this episode as well. I didn't really like how the scorpian queen looked. The way she had a humanoid body was just off putting. Also, the morphing scorpians didn't have enough screen time to become memorable or feel like they had any impact on the story. Goran Visnjic and Robert Glenister were great as Tesla and Edison. Overall, this episode was alright, but definitely had some major flaws. 7/10
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