Hide (Doctor Who): Review

So I have only ever watched this episode once, and I am referring to the notes I had written before I made my video review. So once The Rings of Akhaten aired, and I knew that this story was going to be by the same writer, I was very concerned. As a lot of people already know, I find that story very dull and boring, and wasn't interesting in any way to me at all. But hey, this isn't a review of that crap, so let's move swiftly on with the review!

I was never too pleased with this story, but the main plot entertained me, and I thought that most of the acting and writing was very good (until the end, at least). Matt was brilliant as The Doctor, and Jenna-Louise Coleman was also brilliant as Clara. My favourite actor/actress in this story was Jessica Raine though, who played Emma.

I am a fan of ghost stories myself, I enjoy the Insidious movies and the Paranormal Activity movies, and I am one of the rare people who actually enjoy the Blair Witch series. So I was easily looking forward to this story. It was all well and good until right at the end, when Matt says "It's not a ghost story, it's a love story". That completely ruined it for me. Then of course, you have that big rubber crooked man that looked awful and pathetic up close! It was really good when it was crawling around in the fog!

Now that I've said all the things I don't like about it, I'll mention the things that I am really glad was put in there. To start off, the Doctor states that he has been to Metabelis 3 to collect a crystal. It's just a shame that Matt pronounced it incorrectly!

The Doctor also mentioned the Eye of Harmony, which was the original power source of the TARDIS, mainly used in The Deadly Assassin and the TV Movie.

Overall, I gave this story a 7/10, due to a poor end scene. My next written review will be of The Night of the Doctor, the special prequel to 2013's Day of the Doctor.