YMMV / Doctor Who S34 E10 "In the Forest of the Night"

• Anvilicious: Trees are good. Don't bother them.
• Inferred Holocaust:
  • What happened to aeroplanes in flight when every runway in the world was suddenly taken over by the forest?
  • If animals could escape from the zoos thanks to the trees, could prisoners escape from prison thanks to the trees?
  • No way Nelson's Column is the only large structure to collapse from the growth of the trees. How many other such events occurred worldwide?
  • The reason humankind initially tried to burn down the trees was to make room for essential services. With that stymied, there are no ambulances to deal with medical emergencies or accidents. No quick relief for crimes.
  • What about the astronauts? Everybody on the space station probably got fried, unless it happened to be behind the earth at the time.
• Like You Would Really Do It: Killing a companion? Okay. Do timey-wimey things that would destroy the futures seen in previous episodes? Fair enough. Destroy Earth in a present-day(ish) episode? No way.
• Narm:
  • At the end when the bushes outside Maebh's house dissolve into fairy dust to reveal Maebh's lost sister, whom she had sent a message to during the broadcast to the world. Having the final image of the episode be a person we've never seen before kind of cuts down on the emotion.
  • The Doctor revealing that the events he's talking about are connected by the presence of trees is delivered with a goofy camera angle and an elongated Soldeed-esque, "Treeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees...", before falling out of shot with a goofy grin on his face.
  • When the trees speak through Maebh, Maebh's actress has very clearly been directed to say her lines as if she were singing them. It's quite eerie, but also a little goofy, considering that her sing-song voice is dubbed over by a heavily processed, deepened vocal.
• Special Effects Failure:
  • In the scene in which Maebh is menaced by two wolves hiding in the bushes, the wolves' eyes are very clearly just static images of wolves that have been masked in, with a simple animation to make them look more real.
  • The tree-burning effect is clearly imposed over the footage, and is noticeably flat and fake-looking.

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