8x07 Kill the Moon

How irresponsible the doctor and Clara are for taking a kid on their dangerous adventure. The ego's these two have is very high.

If the kid didn't have the bottle of cleaner, she'd be dead.

I love the moral discussion about whether to kill the creature or not. Don't kill it and it hatches and the moon breaks apart and destroys the earth, or kill it leaving a corpse and the moon pieces stay in orbit around it.

I like the doctor leaving them to make this decision, because it concerned the whole of humanity and it was also a test on how they would react and how Clara would act.

I think last time i missed some of the abortion allusions too, or didn't realize the full extend of it, because there's a lot. Those are quite good, if messy.

I liked them wearing the suits from the satan episodes in season 2. I really like those episodes. I also like in this episode the backgrounds and sets are different from the usual, where we see a lot of the moon exterior and i liked the base.

I liked the spider creatures as well. As an arachnophobe i wasn't as affected as i thought i'd be, and they did feel kind of underdeveloped. They were just germs, and we got a bit of information about them. Would have been nice if we just got a bit more or there was something more to them. Same with the big creature at the end, all we got was is that it's probably unique.

Last time i watched this i talked about how we were robbed of a moral choice.

I think i was hoping that the moon would be destroyed, because that would be the logical thing to do rather than risk the creature awakening, so you have the risk of the creature and the risk of the moon shell destroying earth.

Most of the earth even decided to kill the creature. Most of humanity decided. Then Clara just irresponsibly decided to decide for the whole of humanity.

And we don't even get the consequences of those actions, like if the moon shell actually killed a portion of humanity, to let the actual guilt weigh on Clara, because she logically made the wrong choice, a very very bad choice, and all of humanity could have died because of her.

That's the moral choice and consequence i believe was robbed from us. And i still do partially think that, but this is a good episode with some good morality stuff, though the kid was annoying.

Clara's emotional outburst was completely unexpected. What the doctor did, his manipulation, his lying, his tests, had gone too far, and Clara had enough. The emotional turmoil of the situation got to her and she had enough and said for him to go away. She said her goodbye's. I liked it, she finally wisened up a bit.

And like a drug, of course she's going to go back.