Flatline (2014) Review

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NOTE: This is my original review of this episode that I made on GateWorld Forum in 2014.

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Flatline was a solid ep, raised by a fancy gimmick and more good writing.

PLOT

After landing in London, the TARDIS takes on increasingly smaller dimensions for no real reason and 2D monsters invade.
And the Doctor's stuck in the TARDIS a la The Girl Who Waited(but no cool glasses this time).

CHARACTERS

Peter Capaldi was fine as usual.

Clara seriously shined here, as an equal to the Doctor. It's nice to see her be likeable after a long while.

The guest characters all had some spirit, especially the cranky old guy. All of them were decent.

NOTES

*Nice to see the door being opened from the console again.

*How and why did the aliens reduce the external dimensions of the TARDIS?

*And why did they stop reducing it? A micro-TARDIS would've been cool.

*I loved the scene where the TARDIS switched back to the blue box. Like it was always meant to be. 

*I survived the dentist!
(2015 Note: Yes, wow, amazing, isn't it? This was honestly a new experience for me, though. I've had some horrible visits to the dentist, back in the 2000s. It sucked back then. It's vaguely tolerable now.)

*Jamie Mathieson can come back anytime.

*I liked the Doctor trying to move the TARDIS with his fingers. It's funnier than you'd think.

*Why does Clara pick up the phone in life-and-death situations?! Just let the sucker ring, you can call back later!

*If invasions happen so often and so invariably, how come every planet in the universe isn't already dominated? And if it's because of the Doctor, why can't we see more of that? As with Tom Baker, the show should move away from Earth. 

CONCLUSION

Yeah, not much to say. It wasn't a shining brilliance like the last episode, but it was a decent one-off.