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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JustinAlexander" data-source="post: 6124849" data-attributes="member: 6700092">Re: "Journey to the Center of the TARDIS".Nice to see a conclusion that actually makes sense and isn't just pulled out of a hat as a deus ex machina. And there are a lot of really nice details (like hearing Susan explain the TARDIS acronym). On the other hand, some of the individual elements in the episode felt rather forced ("THE HISTORY OF THE TIME WAR") and there are a couple of significant holes, starting with the Doctor forcing the salvage team to help him but then never actually expecting them to do anything or needing them in any way.There's also some incredibly disjointed editing in here combined with some poor directorial choices: Clara running away from an explosion and then the explosion simply disappearing. Clara running away from a monster but really just moseying while peeking into various TARDIS rooms and giggling. The Doctor running past someone who needs to be saved, leaving it so that only the brother can save him. Et cetera. The visual handling of the ash-creatures in the first half of the episode was also very derivative of last week's monster-of-the-week.The key sequence in the Eye of Harmony is also inexplicably flawed: First, the poor directorial decision of having the Doctor run past the "android" brother. Second, in a scenario where "we can only stay for a minute" you have the Doctor stop halfway across the catwalk in order to casually discuss the thing that's killing them. (What?) Third, "as long as we interrupt the timeline this can't happen" doesn't make any sense. Yes, you can make it so that they don't get joined at the shoulders when they burn. But that doesn't mean that you've negated the actual physical process of burning up.Also: You can't have the Doctor say, "If you help me get her out, you get the machine. (...) Right behind those doors is the salvage of a lifetime." And then later say, "Salvage of a lifetime. You meant the ship. I meant Clara." That doesn't actually track. Either you were offering them the TARDIS as a fee (which makes no sense) or you're referring to Clara as a machine and offering her as the fee (which also makes no sense).</blockquote>

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