Her relationship with Robin is pretty much exactly what you'd expect from an episode like this (he thinks she's beautiful, she gives him wonderful speeches about how he should never give up etc.) which isn't really a bad thing, but she plays off brilliantly with Ben Miller's pantomime-esque version of the Sheriff of Nottingham as she turns his interrogation on its head. Her quick comment about being the Doctor's 'carer' in Into the Dalek couldn't be more appropriate, as here she's the only one keeping a cool, rational head half the time. This was another great episode for Clara too, who is really going from strength to strength in this new season. I just hope Peter Capaldi is ready for the amount of spoons people are probably going to want him to sign/pose with in the years to come. He may have cheated on the archery, but the Twelfth Doctor is not a man you want to mess with when he's armed with a spoon.
It's Clara's face that makes this picture for meĬapaldi also channelled some of his inner-Pertwee into this week's performance, demonstrating the sort of "man of action" moments the Third Doctor was so renowned for.
Things like that do a far better job of making him relatable than all the attempts to 'humanise' him we've had in recent years. Over the years the Doctor has become a near infallible character, so it was really refreshing to see him having to swallow such a huge helping of humble pie for once. The ridiculous lengths he goes to prove Robin Hood is a fake is repeatedly called out, and only in the closing moments does he fully acknowledge that he's been WRONG the entire time. We see the Doctor constantly trying to prove himself right, from tinkering around with blood samples of Robin's merry men ( "If you were real I'd say you only have six months to live.") to cheating at an archery competition just to make himself look better. The Doctor has always been a rather stubborn man, but this new incarnation takes it to a whole new level. It's the perfect clash of personalities, and it also makes you wonder how this new Doctor would react meeting some of his previous incarnations that met everything with a beaming smile and laughter at things that weren't even funny.īut just because this episode didn't show off the Doctor's darker side doesn't mean that his personality didn't shine through. Who's version of Robin Hood is straight out of the Men in Tights/Blackadder history books (how amazing would it have been to see the late great Rik Mayall reprise his role from Back and Forth?), camping it up alongside Capaldi's bitter old man Doctor. The alien/monster side of the plot is considerably light, with the main emphasis on the relationships between the Doctor who refuses to believe Robin is real, Robin who doesn't take much of a liking to this old man coming in and asserting his superiority, and Clara who's stuck in the middle of her two "impossible heroes" bickering like school children. Robot of Sherwood is a brightly coloured 45 minute romp, deliciously campy and a wonderful slice of Doctor Who silliness. The episode is titled Robot of Sherwood, and was written by Doctor Who regular and Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss.įirst things first - if this is another episode where you're expecting this "darker, more serious" Doctor the general public have been teased for the last year you are going to be sorely disappointed. So while the Doctor gets caught up in trying to prove that this Robin Hood is a fraud, they all also get caught up in a plan involving robots, gold and of course - the Sheriff of Nottingham.
Eager to prove that Robin Hood doesn't exist, the Doctor is naturally rather surprised to find both him and his merry men almost instantly when they land. Episode three sees the TARDIS flying to Sherwood forest to the times of Robin Hood, after Clara tells the Doctor she's always wanted to meet the legendary hero. Another week has passed, so naturally it's time for another look at the latest season of Doctor Who.
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