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In the Forest of the Night
(Review by Phil Sandifer)
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So London, indeed the world, wakes up to find that the trees have moved back overnight. "The forest is mankind's nightmare," the Doctor tells Clara and Danny, who are trappedin the capital with their Year Eight Gifted and Talented Group (an impressive set of child actors).
Frank Cotterell-Boyce has written a delightful fable that taps into our primal fears, but if you're an ecologist, into Gaia theory or simply have poetry in your soul, In the Forest of the Night will give you a glow. It alludes to William Blake's The Tyger (it's almost the second line) and makes other poetic references. Clara's troubled pupil Maebh Arden (excellent Abigail Eames) is perhaps a nod to Shakespeare's mother Mary Arden and surely named after England's ancient forest. Like Blake's opaque poem, this episode is open to interpretation.
(Review by Phil Sandifer)
ETA:
So London, indeed the world, wakes up to find that the trees have moved back overnight. "The forest is mankind's nightmare," the Doctor tells Clara and Danny, who are trappedin the capital with their Year Eight Gifted and Talented Group (an impressive set of child actors).
Frank Cotterell-Boyce has written a delightful fable that taps into our primal fears, but if you're an ecologist, into Gaia theory or simply have poetry in your soul, In the Forest of the Night will give you a glow. It alludes to William Blake's The Tyger (it's almost the second line) and makes other poetic references. Clara's troubled pupil Maebh Arden (excellent Abigail Eames) is perhaps a nod to Shakespeare's mother Mary Arden and surely named after England's ancient forest. Like Blake's opaque poem, this episode is open to interpretation.