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Mr Beens posted:Can you explain the point of the episode and what happened at the end - are we all missing something? I actually can't remember without reading the script again, but I think it's been changed in the edit from the shooting draught so may not be much help. Just remembered the how apt this episode being about the dangers of not sleeping was - I managed to scalpel a nice bit of finger off myself making Ep10.
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Scaring kids so they can't sleep after telling them the only way to be safe is sleep is top quality Doctor Who. Also running down corridors.
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Nov 14, 2015 22:23
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I enjoyed that. Ending felt a bit rushed but it was a good episode. I really like Shearsmith's costume and glasses, very sci-fi.
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Nov 14, 2015 22:23
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Echoplex, did you do all the little helmet projection graphics? Those were pretty nifty.
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Nov 14, 2015 22:25
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Tsaedje posted:Scaring kids so they can't sleep after telling them the only way to be safe is sleep is top quality Doctor Who. Also running down corridors. I was really hoping that the title would have been painfully literally - a monster that kills you when you sleep. Stay awake all night, and the monster can't get you. The next week, The Doctor reveals that Mummy and Daddy don't love you anymore, and that Ruffles didn't go to doggy heaven.
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Nov 14, 2015 22:28
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What a load of shite
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They just couldn't give Clara a few good episodes in a row to end her run, could they 
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Nov 14, 2015 22:32
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The_Doctor posted:Echoplex, did you do all the little helmet projection graphics? Those were pretty nifty. Nah, unfortunately. Motion stuff gets farmed out - I designed the layouts for some eps with an animator working on them, and for other eps (like this one) someone else did them all themselves. They were practical projections, which was nice.
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Nov 14, 2015 22:37
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Jerusalem posted:Yeah it was, echoplex mentioned they put together a full Indo-Japanese alphabet but didn't think it was used, I was just saying I think it popped up towards the end on one of the computer screens. It showed up on the computer the Doctor used near the start, and on a bunch of minor background things like readouts and projected screen things. I kinda prefer it just being in the background, it gives a subtle sense of a different society without making it the entire point of the episode - the future-society is a nice bit of setting without being directly responsible for all of the horrible things. Tsaedje posted:Scaring kids so they can't sleep after telling them the only way to be safe is sleep is top quality Doctor Who. Also running down corridors. sHow IT to alL of your friends
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Nov 14, 2015 22:37
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Found a cool graph to sum up my s9 thoughts
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Nov 14, 2015 22:47
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echoplex posted:Nah, unfortunately. Motion stuff gets farmed out - I designed the layouts for some eps with an animator working on them, and for other eps (like this one) someone else did them all themselves. They were practical projections, which was nice. Did the kitchen area reuse parts from the underwater episode? Strom Cuzewon posted:I was really hoping that the title would have been painfully literally - a monster that kills you when you sleep. Stay awake all night, and the monster can't get you. Don’t sleep. Sleep and you’re dead. Don’t turn on your side. Don’t close your eyes. And don’t sleep.
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Nov 14, 2015 22:48
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Valeyard posted:Found a cool graph to sum up my s9 thoughts Cool wrong graph there. I thought this one was pretty good myself!
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Nov 14, 2015 22:48
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Carbon dioxide posted:Did the kitchen area reuse parts from the underwater episode? Nah, all of the Drum sets were setbuilds, a lot of this one - including the kitchen - were location shoots.
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Nov 14, 2015 22:53
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Dabir posted:Cool wrong graph there. 
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Nov 14, 2015 22:55
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I didn't particularly like this episode but my objectively correct and in no way opinion-based graph would have season 9 looking mostly like this: Now that's good science!
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Nov 14, 2015 23:18
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That was alright. Nothing special. Bit too similar to the one with the ghosts now I think about it. Professor Fuckstick hasn't been a particularly interesting antagonist yet. Depends on the next bit I guess. Monster design didn't seem particularly original, but I think they were done well. What you want from horrible goop monsters really. Also every so often I remember what they were made of and 
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They were actual Sand Vagina monsters, yet another poke at the fandom
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Nov 15, 2015 00:02
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Wait a minute, that wasn't a two parter? I assumed it was. Well that's a load of shite really. Where was the resolution? Also drat it, it should have been set near Uranus instead. There weren't enough laughs in this episode.
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Nov 15, 2015 00:05
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Mostly pretty meh. Shearsmith did creepy well, but the monster premise was pretty silly (sleep dust... animates? Wut? By change sin brain chemistry that stop you sleeping so sleep dust builds up. Except sleep dust only builds up WHEN you sleep. Umm?). I can see where they're going, trying to latch onto the same kind of paranoia-inducement that the Weeping Angels brought, but I really didn't see it. It would have been much better without the blob monsters, and with the sleep pods being a direct vector for some kind of brain takeover plotline, rather than a bizarre dust monster creation... thing. I liked the point-of-view camera stuff, that was pretty fun, but I pegged that the dust could see very early on. I liked the monster design a lot, too, though they felt a bit out of place in this episode. And the sleep pods etc; the Mr Sandman theme had real potential to get proper creepy I think. Also, how pathetic a supersoldier was that, that running through two feet of low flames killed her to death? Without burning her clothing, but with burning her face. But the animated organic dust monsters weren't affected. Wut? But overall, it was trying to evoke Weeping Angels-esque paranoia, and it just... didn't. Nonetheless, one of the better episodes of this series.
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Jerusalem posted:I didn't particularly like this episode but my objectively correct and in no way opinion-based graph would have season 9 looking mostly like this: I will only be happy when we get a quality graph of Doctor Who's works in the shape of a dick
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Nov 15, 2015 00:11
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Gatiss has said he has a sequel planned for Sleep No More.
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Nov 15, 2015 00:12
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The_Doctor posted:Gatiss has said he has a sequel planned for Sleep No More. please...no...
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Nov 15, 2015 00:13
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The_Doctor posted:Gatiss has said he has a sequel planned for Sleep No More. I've finally reached the "gently caress Gatiss" stage
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Nov 15, 2015 00:21
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The_Doctor posted:Gatiss has said he has a sequel planned for Sleep No More. I welcome potential resolution but good God I hope the follow-up is better than the set-up.
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Nov 15, 2015 00:43
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Chris James 2 posted:I've finally reached the "gently caress Gatiss" stage Maybe he was too taken aback by the overwhelming not-negative reaction to The Crimson Horror and Robot of Sherwood and wanted to ensure he would never be showrunner. I do quite like that the central conceit is a conceit: it's supposed to be a found footage horror piece. That, and the "but we don't have cameras" like are legitimately clever. Shame about basically everything else.
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Nov 15, 2015 00:45
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That sure was a thing. It made no sense, it didn't grab me emotionally, and the conclusion was really confusing. Shame Gatiss apparently handed in a first draft, and forgot to write an ending.
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Nov 15, 2015 00:46
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i always appreciate episodes that try to do some different things, so... uh, it was okay, i guess, sort of.
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Nov 15, 2015 00:54
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Terrible but still better than the last 4 episodes.
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Nov 15, 2015 01:01
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So is Clara going to die of becoming an eye-mucus monster? That was a strange sentence to type even for Doctor Who.
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Nov 15, 2015 01:04
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I actually liked that one. I'll like it less if there's really never any follow-up on that ending.
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Nov 15, 2015 01:23
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Sleep No More gifs:      That's about all that really stood out to me 
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Nov 15, 2015 01:28
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I guess it was an okay episode. I didn't hate it or anything. I liked it better than the previous two but not as much as the two before them.
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Nov 15, 2015 01:32
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What, did Joe Lidster write this? Terrible.
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DoctorWhat posted:What, did Joe Lidster write this? Too many survivors, and not enough companion trauma for a Lidster 
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Nov 15, 2015 01:48
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The ending did have a serious Lidster vibe though - the Doctor is gone and none the wiser as the villain gloats cruelly about how now they're free to do their evil unhindered. It's the only reason I was happy to hear Gatiss apparently has a follow-up in mind.
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The_Doctor posted:Gatiss has said he has a sequel planned for Sleep No More. bit presumptuous that is
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Nov 15, 2015 01:55
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OH WOW 457 was Bethany Black. So way to go, show. Cast your first trans actress as a tragic biological abomination. As they say on Tumblr, yikes.
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Nov 15, 2015 01:55
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DoctorWhat posted:OH WOW I'm fairly certain that if she felt the role misaligned her at all, she'd have been the first to say so.
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Nov 15, 2015 02:01
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On the one hand, yeah. On the other hand, when you're in the sort of position she's in, getting typecast and stuff, you take what you can get.
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All I could think about the whole time is that a machine that makes you not have to sleep would make a great premise for a Black Mirror episode.
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