Leaving the Daleks behind, the Doctor and a rather whiny Clara land in an underwater base in 2119. Clara wants another adventure, more excitement. The Doctor thinks she should pick up a hobby or start another relationship. His concern for Clara is concerning. But what they encounter on the base is quite intriguing and very distracting from Clara's needs. When the team pulls in a crashed alien spaceship, their leader is killed and becomes a ghost {along with presumably the alien pilot} and these ghosts who appear only at night try to kill all the members on the base, whispering mysterious coordinates the entire time. The Doctor doesn't have enough clues to solve his little mystery so he goes back in time to the beginning, leaving Clara staring at a new ghostly figure in the water.
This episode, while having some fun quotes that I conveniently or inconveniently misplaced, was really stupid. Going back in time to solve the mystery would create a paradox of some sort. And Clara is so whiny. I kinda started to like her again in the previous two episodes {new hair cut and all} but now she's back to annoying Clara. The writers of this show are getting extremely frustrating and keep crossing their own paths and breaking their own rules. It makes it very hard to concentrate on the plot when it's so full of holes. I'm kinda liking the current Doctor - he's no Tennent but he's way better than Smith. We'll see how this season progresses. I do wish the episodes weren't all two-parters.
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