I've always thought of this one as another way that 7B was messed up by bottling out of making Victorian Clara the companion. The way it focuses on the Internet, aircraft, etc., made me wonder if it was supposed to be her introduction to the modern world.
Also, the title feels like a placeholder. Given that it's a story about the Great Intelligence trying to take over the world through the Internet, I wonder if Moffat wanted to call it World Wide Web, but only fans would have got the joke.
Don't diss Bugs. That was a genuinely great show - I rewatched most of it again recently and sure, it's clearly very time-and-location specific (in a way that, say, The Avengers, isn't) but it gets a lot out of a limited budget and a decent cast.
I really like this episode, mostly for the "good bits" you mentioned. I agree with you about the Doctor being creepy, but since he was literally obsessed with searching for Clara across time and space for who knows how long, it kind of makes sense. What doesn't exactly make sense is how Clara seemed to mostly be cool with it, but I guess she liked him already even then...
I've always thought of this one as another way that 7B was messed up by bottling out of making Victorian Clara the companion. The way it focuses on the Internet, aircraft, etc., made me wonder if it was supposed to be her introduction to the modern world.
Also, the title feels like a placeholder. Given that it's a story about the Great Intelligence trying to take over the world through the Internet, I wonder if Moffat wanted to call it World Wide Web, but only fans would have got the joke.
Don't diss Bugs. That was a genuinely great show - I rewatched most of it again recently and sure, it's clearly very time-and-location specific (in a way that, say, The Avengers, isn't) but it gets a lot out of a limited budget and a decent cast.
No show can be all bad that has an episode that includes a character named after me! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0533560/?ref_=tt_ch
I'm always frustrated that they didn't call it "The World Wide Web of Fear
I really like this episode, mostly for the "good bits" you mentioned. I agree with you about the Doctor being creepy, but since he was literally obsessed with searching for Clara across time and space for who knows how long, it kind of makes sense. What doesn't exactly make sense is how Clara seemed to mostly be cool with it, but I guess she liked him already even then...