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Doctor Who: Extremis (2017)
Moffat make Dan Brown great
We start off with some intriguing flashbacks, someones going to die.
Flashforward and it goes all Dan Brown, with the pope visiting the doctor.
We enter the Vatican library with sub Angels & Demons plot of Veritas a mystery text - all previous translations going missing along with the translators.
So far so good, the flashbacks are more interesting than the main plot as we get to find out who's in the vault although given Moffat's typical Who arc plotting it was fairly obvious.
The main plot goes Matrix and we end up with Bill & Nardole in CERN (more Angels & Demons linkage).
Unfortunately after a slow final third Moffat pulls the mother of all Russell T. Davies style Deus ex Machina cop-out endings with a "clever" (i.e. monumentally stupid) twist.
So much promise, the flashback plot works and the main plot is so derivative its disappointing. Still next week looks more promising.
Doctor Who: Last Christmas (2014)
3rd rate mix of alien & inception
It starts out promisingly with Santa crashed on Clara's roof and moves rapidly downhill.
Referencing Alien, blue facehuggers (although they seem more like Halflife's headcrabs) as Dream crabs that can cause inception like layers of dreams. The episode was supposed to be scary. Not a bit of it. Some kids may be disturbed by the Dream crabs and the scariest bit was of course Clara getting attacked.
Throughout this Santa Claus is used as a Deus Ex Machina to rescue the cast.
The ending though sappy was the best bit of the episode aside from Santa's sarcastic elves in the first few minutes.
Avoid!
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Unfriendly Skies (2000)
Overrated moralising rubbish
So we have a murder on the orient express rip off.
Our victim who happened to be a dead man walking from his medical condition, goes off on one in mid air and as a result ends up dead.
Who killed him, well as my first sentence suggests everyone as it was a classic case of self-defence a rogue passenger trying to force his way into the cockpit & trying open the door mid-flight. What would you do? Well the ineffably moralising idiot Grissom wants you to think of the poor passenger & totally forgets that the passenger even if restrained legally or even if his condition was recognised by the Doctor among the "suspects" and treated would have been dead or near death by the time the flight landed. Either way a resounding "Not Guilty" & no case to answer.
Major Crimes: Citizen's Arrest (2012)
First episode that stands up against The Closer
As per summary. Its taken till the fifth episode of Major Crimes for them to come up with an episode that approaches the quality of The Closer.
The case is a nasty one, with a couple of nice twists and builds nicely to a climax.
I guess the main reason this episode works so well is the retarded plea-deal strategy that the series has been pushing so hard is ignored. As Provenza says at the end "Thats one deal I can live with".
The ever annoying Sykes sticks her foot in her mouth yet again - wish they would ditch the character. On the plus side the ever lovely DDA Hobbs returns. The Rusty subplot thickens (something else they should ditch).