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EPISODE
SEASON
Doctor Who - Season 9 Episode 4 Before the Flood
The Doctor and Clara have established a dynamic as a partnership of equals, they’re relishing the fun and thrills that all of space and time has to offer. Tangling with ghosts, Vikings and the ultimate evil of the Daleks, they embark on their biggest adventures yet. Missy is back to plague the Doctor once more, the Zygons inspire fear as they shape-shift into human clones, and a new arrival moves in cosmic ways.
2 November 1964, Brooklyn, New York, USA
19 September 1954, Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
8 October 1980, Grappenhall, Cheshire, England, UK
21 February 1980, Grahamstown, South Africa
7 November 1950, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
16 November 1965, Guisborough, Cleveland, England, UK
11 May 1944, London, England, UK
14 December 1982, Manchester, England, UK
October 12, 2015
What makes "Before the Flood" exceptional... is how it-like the best Who stories-marries complex, heady concepts with a rollicking adventure that can be enjoyed by anyone without a PhD. in quantum mechanics.
October 12, 2015
Such a gimmick shouldn't work once, let alone twice, and yet here I found myself jumping around in my chair, punching the air with even more enthusiasm than last year.
October 12, 2015
It's not too often that we get to see the Doctor peer at himself from around the corner (mercifully - it would get tired quickly), which invoked the warm familiarity of the sci-fi of yesteryear.
October 12, 2015
The willingness of "Before the Flood" to play with the fourth wall and Peter Capaldi's performance in those scenes really brought the whole -- already good -- package together.
October 12, 2015
It's a joy to watch, even when what just happened remains a bit of a head-scratcher, as it does in the very satisfying "Before the Flood."
October 12, 2015
It feels like the show is setting up a more permanent end for Clara than previous companions-which probably should have me concerned-but for now I'm mostly just pleased that she took action in the Doctor's absence.
October 12, 2015
"Before the Flood" should be commended for being willing to toy with certain ideas, and for exposing a confounding truth involving its protagonists that might afford the season an interesting avenue to explore.
October 12, 2015
All in all, tonight was a fun episode that gave us one of the more visually elaborate - and frightening - monsters in while: the Fisher King.
October 12, 2015
A two-parter where both episodes are equally good and even feel like they belong together.
October 12, 2015
That moment, as people say on the internet, when an episode of Doctor Who strays so far into the weird that it becomes a classic, somehow despite itself.
