It is written by sarah dollard and was broadcast on 29 april 2017 on bbc one. The doctor takes bill to a spectacular city but where are the colonists. Thin ice is the third episode of the tenth series of the british science fiction television series. Im 2,000 years old and ive never had the time for the luxury of outrage. While thin ice may feel like a little dip in quality, hopefully next weeks episode with a good guest star will deliver where this episode struggled to. We follow a couple skating away from the fair, then focus on a drunk as he stumbles past a sign saying danger thin ice. Doctor who airs in the uk on the bbc every saturday. Thin ice has a lot to say about the doctors evolution as a longlived alien who often spends his time hanging around humans, getting into trouble. As with the two prior episodes, thin ice feels like a. Putting the relationship between the doctor and bill front and center makes for all the difference, though, as the interplay between capaldi and mackie continues to make. Doctor who series 10 deleted scene thin ice youtube. Thin ice is not simply a story about a monster that eats people to survive. We went forward last time, so the tradition to go backwards right after, thin ice serving as a balance to last weeks futuristic episode smile. Fantastic adventures and terrifying monsters await the team of heroes as the.
I dont recall martha saying anything similar during series 3 with david tennants doctor, but surely she must have. Thin ice is a fairly solid historical adventure, one that takes a fairly conventional doctor who template and puts a slightly selfaware spin on it. By proper, i mean planned and not running from your watery crushstalker. As an early series episode it doesnt have too much to establish in the long term plot, beyond the aforementioned development of the doctorcompanion relationship. The seventh doctor and ace arrive in moscow in 1967 on the trail of martian artifacts, in thin ice, an audio adaptation of a doctor who story from the unmade season twentyseven.
They soon discover that there is something under the ice which is causing people to disappear. The entire city has turned out for the biggest frost fair in decades. The last great frost fair has slightly more aliens swimming around it than previously assumed and thats not counting the doctor. If you havent started watching this season, you should and bring your friends. After the doctor and bill do a spot of deep sea diving and discover the sea creature is actually a lonely, desperate prisoner, the focus of the story turns to the man whose family presumably kept the creature chained up for centuries in. Even though it has just been a cold, it has drained pretty much all of my energy and concentration, which is why i didnt do more than the necessary these past days hence no new posts and no reading. Cut ice with skating skills to sink the snow beasts.
But beneath the frozen thames, revellers are disappearing, snatched through the ice and pulled into the depths where a terrifying monster lurks. Thin ice is a decent typical doctor who story, but thats it despite starring good old sylvester mccoy and sophie aldred, it doesnt really feel like it picks up from when they walked off our screens in survival all those years ago. The doctor and bill visit london during the last of the river thames frost fairs in february 1814. A creature feature with some social justice to boot, thin ice recaptures the highs and lows of what makes a great doctor who episode. The fan show this is the place to find all the best official clips from all 54 years. The doctor and ace have arrived behind the iron curtain. You can see the full collection of pictures from thin ice in the gallery below, which also include the doctor and bill in some natty diving gear and some new characters for the episode. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title thin ice. In listen, weve already had a sequence of three bangs knocks. The sequence of three knocks at the end of thin ice and the oath.
We love storiesbig finish produce great fullcast audio drama for cd and download, featuring many popular television fantasy series. The doctor and ace have arrived behind the iron curtain, and the soviet. Thin ice handles this last bit more convincingly and articulately and also gracefully than weve seen in a long time. I still think season 10 is the best jumping on point weve had since the first season of the who reboot. Thin ice is the third episode of the tenth series of the british science fiction television series doctor who. In all, thin ice has to wear many hats and it does so satisfactorily for the most part.
The doctor and bill travel to london in 1814, and discover that a gigantic creature is living under the icedover thames. Thin ice was the third episode of series 10 of doctor who. But beneath the frozen thames, revellers are disappearing, snatched through the. Thin ice is a classic, thoroughly entertaining doctor who episode with a plot that finally breaks the ice on series 10 of the popular scifi show, while still having time to put kids both on. He is following a green light, with more coming up behind him. Thin ice released april 2011 written by marc platt. Including brand new trailers, behindthescenes footage, exclusive videos and our very own show doctor who. Thin ice is the first episode since hungry earth where everything and every character in the episode is terrestrial save for the doctor himself and his technology. Like most good doctor who episodes, though, the perspective still belongs to bill we learn about the doctor through her eyes and her mind.
The events of this story follow on directly from smile, with the tardis arriving in london just moments after the doctor and bill left the human colony planet. Thin ice this weeks doctor who features some fantastic dialogue and relationship building between bill and the doctorall on the ice of the thames during the last frost fair. Since we went to the future in last weeks doctor who episode, it makes sense that this week we go back to the past. As with the pilot and smile, there is a decidedly nostalgic quality to thin ice. Stripping away all the genre commentary, thin ice is a very enjoyable romp. A new trailer for doctor whos next episode, thin ice, showcases the next big bad that the twelfth doctor and bill have to face. With peter capaldi, pearl mackie, matt lucas, nicholas burns. In nineteenthcentury england the doctor and bill find a festival on the frozen surface of the thames, and soon discover that a humongous creature lies beneath the feet of the citys poor and unsuspecting citizens. What this episode was really about was showing the further strengthening of the doctor and bill, which is done very well. If last weeks smile was focused predominantly on bill and how her and the doctors relationship will grow, thin ice rests more firmly on the doctors shoulders. I always wondered why they didnt just do more historic episodes with historic enemies. Doctor who 10x03 thin ice postepisode discussion thread. In season 10s third installment, we journey to nineteenth century london, where a monster lurks beneath the frozen thames.
In listen too, the doctor after getting knocked out, wakes up in a dazed state and blurts out sontarans. But the official bbc synopsis makes thin ice sound like a pretty creepy monsteroftheweek mystery london, 1814. Thin ice, a 1997 memoir by illustrator bruce mccall. On the subject of an elephant and a frozen thames bill potts pearl mackie. A jaunt back to merry olde london is more sinister than bill could have imagined. Then we hear a splosh, a cry, and see green lights circling a bottle spinning on the ice. As such things go, the story of thin ice isnt terribly remarkable. Will the doctor and bill stop the slaughter before they too are dragged. Notable for being the first historical adventure since. Plus, a giant fish that may or may not be an alien.
1435 1477 1072 1260 1318 137 1436 1473 1500 1140 1081 722 1159 1502 945 404 1332 347 217 973 958 480 250 147 1087 540 953 1452 1313 1414 1447 426