Doctor Who & Weekend Catch Up Part 10

Doctor Who "Before the Flood"

In the second part of this two-part story, the Doctor travels back to the 1980s during the Cold War to see where the spaceship is and who has landed. It only took two crew members and left Clara and the others behind due to the security doors.

This episode occurred before the previous episode, as the Doctor explains in the beginning, and again at the end. This is called the "bootstrap paradox," a time loop. We've seen it in other shows and films. But he mentions only Beethoven, who wasn't a natural person until he, the Doctor, gave sheets of music to a man who called himself Ludwig Beethoven. That was a fun part of the episode. It was beautifully well-performed and made.

The Doctor had to battle with the Fisher King, the one trying to get from that point in time, 2199. Killing O'Donnell, the King faces the Doctor, who looks scared when looking up at the King. But so on, the Doctor talked and told him a lie about the ship, for which the King went back to and realized that the Doctor lied to him. Along with the dam being destroyed.

As Clara, Cass, and Lunn try to stay alive from the ghost, they come to the white box in the control room. It opened up and out popped the Doctor along with his sonic sunglasses.

I have to say that this was a very, very interesting episode. I had to watch it twice to keep understanding it, but it was a lot better watching it the second time. The time loop did get me at first. That was until I put it together from the first scene of the episode to the last scene of the episode. It is brilliantly done and probably one of its best and brightest episodes.

Overall, I give this episode a 9.5/10.

You can catch Doctor Who on Saturday nights at 9/8c on BBC America.

Arrow "Green Arrow" 

(WARNING: I HAVE NOT SEEN SEASON 3 BUT WILL THIS WEEK; THIS IS ALL FROM WATCHING SEASONS ONE & TWO AND THIS WEEK'S SEASON 4 PREMIERE).

For how long are we going to keep seeing Oliver leave and come back?

I get it that fighting bad guys, saving the city, and protecting the ones that you love is all a huge risk when being a hero, but watching it after every season does get tiresome at times. I think that after this season, it will show that maybe he'll stay as the hero for a long time.

Oliver seems to enjoy the retired superhero life with Felicity in a nice neighborhood. Diggle, Laurel, and Speedy are carrying on the Arrow's name while trying to stop a group of guys known as Ghost.

It wasn't until Speedy and Laurel thought Oliver should return that Diggle believed otherwise. He's still upset about what Oliver did to him last season. They ask Oliver for help right when he is about to ask Felicity for her hand in marriage.

Well, Oliver and even Felicity agreed to help. Hell, Felicity has been helping them for a while, and it quite upset Oliver.

It seems like there's a new villain in the city, and his name is Damion Darhk, who has a very supernatural ability; not only freaking Speedy and Black Canary out but also me as well with his sucking the life out of one of his men.

And did you watch Arrow and Darhk's fight that looked like Bane vs. Batman when you seemed to lose your touch in fighting? But the shocker is that Laurel's dad works for Darhk, so that doesn't seem to go down well.

At the end of the episode, we jump to six months, seeing Oliver at a cemetery looking at someone's grave, and along comes The Flash. We never did get a look at it, but my guess is it would be either Felicity or Quentin Lance. At this time in Oliver's life, maybe Felicity should get killed. Hell, I want to see Oliver and Laurel back together. I still think that they are meant to be.

I enjoyed this episode. There were a few things that just got boring from Oliver enjoying his happy, non-superhero life and coming back to become the hero again. But he's Oliver Queen and not Bruce Wayne.

Overall, I give this episode an 8/10

You can catch Arrow on Wednesday nights at 8/7c on The CW.