• Home
  • Latest Posts
  • Categories
    • Craft
    • Fashion + Beauty
    • Featured
    • Film + TV
    • Gadgetry
    • House + Home
    • Kids
    • Life Dorkage
    • Love + Sex
    • Opinion
You are here: Home / Film + TV / Doctor Who: The Power Of Three – Dork Review

Doctor Who: The Power Of Three – Dork Review

September 23, 2012 By Nick Bryan

Doctor Who: The Power Of ThreeDespite this Doctor Who series being the well-advertised Last Days Of The Ponds, we haven’t seen them that front and centre. In the last episode, they barely did anything.

Well, all that changes in The Power Of Three, as the merry band face… an onslaught of cuboid alien droppings? The Doctor staying over? Watch on iPlayer before reading this, obviously.

Karen Gillan + Arthur Darvill = James Corden

In series five and six of Who, we had The Lodger and Closing Time, just-before-the-finale calm-before-the-storm episodes where the Doc visits James Corden and does comedy. Well, The Power of Three is another one of those, except Corden is played by Amy and Rory.

Really, it’s an excuse to spend time with the old gang, hanging around, doing banter, the inevitable jokes about the Doctor and normal life, occasional emotional conversation. As ever, Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill have been doing this together so long that they can make this stuff pretty endearing.

In short, one last chance to have warm fuzzy feelings towards the Ponds before next week, when a weeping angel will messily beat them to death with some New York bagels. And I think they pulled that part off – unless you hate these characters and their overly cozy dynamic, in which case this must have been sheer hell for you.

The Tragedy Of The Neglected Cubes

The alien cube plot, on the other hand. Well, it’s a pretty good idea, shame it’s been tossed off as background noise in the comedy episode, rather than given space. This felt like the first half of a two-parter, a whole forty minutes of build-up and then… instead of an amazing cliffhanger, the Doctor zaps a console with the sonic screwdriver and it’s all over. Weird.

In other news: the new UNIT dynamic was interesting enough, although it felt like set-up for later episodes, and Mark Williams has slotted seamlessly into the cuddly family set-up as Rory’s dad, after his earlier appearance in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship.

But basically: the moral here was “Look at the Ponds! Don’t you love them? Won’t you be sad when they’re gone?” And since I’m not yet sick of those guys, it worked okay on me, although I still feel they could’ve made the plot of the episode less half-arsed. Next week: no doubt something awful will happen!

More Doctor Who on Dork Adore | Doctor Who: Asylum of the Daleks – Dork Review

Nick Bryan

Nick learned to read and write at an early age. This has developed into an unhealthy need to either write stories or consume them for later dissection. He reviews film and TV on Dork Adore and The Digital Fix, lives in London and enjoys a nice white beer.

More Posts - Website

Follow Me:
TwitterGoogle Plus

Please share if you enjoyed this!

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Google
  • Pinterest
  • Reddit
  • Tumblr

Related

Related Posts

  • BBC Tom Baker's Doctor Who replica scarfThe Fourth Doctor’s scarf and more Tom Baker Doctor Who memorabilia
  • The Walking Dead: ChupacabraThe Walking Dead: Chupacabra – Dork Review
  • My Granny used to post things on Tumblr – Doctor Who Kill The Moon review
  • Lady Gaga Bad Romance equation iPhone caseiPhone cases from Society 6

Filed Under: Film + TV Tagged With: Arthur Darvill, BBC, Doctor Who, Karen Gillan, Mark Williams, Matt Smith, TV Reviews

Hey there, dork

You're a nerd, we're all nerds, let's make something beautiful happen. Sign up for our newsletter. We promise not to use your details inappropriately.

Yes, I need more email!

Welcome to the Dorkside!

About Us
We are a group of geeks with interests that range from crafting to the latest lifehacks. If you can be geeky about something, we're probably covering it! Here are some of our most popular current obsessions:

Doctor Who :: The Walking Dead :: Craft Patterns :: Fifty Shades of Grey :: Apple :: Game of Thrones :: TV Reviews

Recent Comments

  • Lillian on Here are 10 Things I Hate About the Gilmore Girls
  • Lillian on Here are 10 Things I Hate About the Gilmore Girls
  • Brittney muns on Here are 10 Things I Hate About the Gilmore Girls

Recent Posts

  • Edifier Prisma Bluetooth Speaker with ‘Storm-trooper’ styling
  • Gtech AirRam Mk2: Our new favourite battery-powered vacuum cleaner
  • These are my 10 Commandments for Email. What are yours?
  • Are you brave enough for a Personal Barber shaving box?
  • What parenting gadgets are actually worth getting?
  • Doctor Who LEGO is upon us! Get it before it sells out!

Most Popular Reads

  • Time Heist: Doctor Who does Ocean’s Eleven
  • Meet the Tablift – the universal tablet holder
  • Peppa Pig knitting and crochet patterns! Update: And Sewing!
  • Here are 10 Things I Hate About the Gilmore Girls

Dork Adore

  • Advertising
  • Dork Adore Writers
  • Contact Dork Adore
  • Discount Codes
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Competition Terms and Conditions
  • Privacy Policy
  • Writing for Dork Adore
  • Latest Posts

Categories

  • Craft
  • Fashion + Beauty
  • Featured
  • Film + TV
  • Gadgetry
  • House + Home
  • Kids
  • Life Dorkage
  • Love + Sex
  • Opinion

Follow Dork Adore On

RSS
Facebook
Twitter
Pinterest

Miramus Ltd © 2014 · All Rights Reserved