Doctor Who - 4.9 - Forest of the Dead Reviews

Rating		Votes
10	33%	31
9	43%	40
8	14%	13
7	6%	6
6	1%	1
5	1%	1
4	2%	2
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2	0%	0
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Average Rating 8.9
Votes 94

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Donna finds herself in a world where she is happily married and has two children. She has virtually no memory of what may have happened to her in the Library or anything prior to that in the real world. When she does get a glimpse in her mind of her past life, it is quickly shut down. In the Library itself, the Doctor and Professor River Song try to find out what happened not only to Donna but to the over 4000 people the computer says were saved when the library was shut down 100 years ago. The solution to it all lies in understanding what the computer has been telling them all along.

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31 out of 35 (88.6%) raters say this story requires a previous story.

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9.1

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10th Doctor

Donna Noble

Vashta Nerada

River Song

Cast

David Tennant

Catherine Tate

Alex Kingston

Colin Salmon

Eve Newton

Director:

Euros Lyn

Writer:

Steven Moffat

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Reviewed By: adamelijahReview Date: 9/10/16 7:57 pm

0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

Brilliantly directed and superbly acted, this episode delivers on all the questions raised is the first part and then some. Donna's new life after being "saved" is brilliantly written and Catherine Tate turns in another amazing performance. The Tenth Doctor and River are both superb in this. The Vashta Nerada remain a terrifying monster throughout. At the same time, the story isn't afraid to subvert our expectations with the truth behind the rich sponsor of River Song's expedition and the false ending, which sets up one of the best sequences in the history of the show for the true ending.

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Reviewed By: FlyingTigerComicsReview Date: 6/22/16 9:00 am

1 out of 4 found this review helpful.

For all the awful Mary Sue river song garbage that follows, one could weep.
But in this first story two-parter the character serves its purpose and doesn't detract from some classic horror beats.