A fun thing to be a traveler is that you can often delay important tasks for as long as you want. This was part of the appeal for Amy (Karen Gillan) at the beginning of the "Doctor who" Season 5; She had a second thought of marriage to Rory the next day, so the doctor's promise that she could travel through space and time for as long as she wanted before, seemed to be a lot.

The rest of the season eventually dealt with Amy's doubts about Rory, but she once again ended up delaying the characters. This time, the doctor allocated his sweet time to get closer to an important task: in the final, he receives a phone call (seemingly from the future queen or the King of England) in connection with the emergency. In the future there is obviously a train that works in space called Orient Express, and has a sensitive running around, killing passengers one by one.

Looks like an emergency business, right? Well, the doctor does not handle it to handle it until the 8th season. To that point, the doctor has a whole new face And a brand new companion, but as far as the person knows by phone, he arrived immediately.

The episode of Season 8 was a fun case of the show that paid the throw line long after random fans remembered it. Until the "Orient Express Mummy" aired in 2014, the only people who could appreciate the joke were hardcore fans who remembered those months on fans' forums after the "big bang" of Season 5. When speculating on what the annual episode would be, Disappointed when he went in the other direction. (Of course, the novel inspired by Dickens, we got instead was so good that it was difficult for the fans to complain.)

Another factor that facilitated the forgiveness of the show of the story of Orient Express is that, by the time of the final of the 5th season, it was not even so long ago, the last time withdrew from the episode of Agatha Christie. The story of Season 4, "The Unicorn and wasps" was a mystery to a murder set in the 20s of the last century, which included Christie's own (played here by Fenela Vulgar).

The episode was based on "Krivo House", a novel that is not as known as "Murder of Orient Express"But what still managed to get his own film adaptation in 1982, entitled" Evil under the Sun ". The chief writer of the episode, Gareth Edwards, talked about how he deliberately chose a comical tone and that he and the show Russell T. fans.

It is the perfect episode to sit down and relax, and in Season 4 it serves as the last light story before things are darkened. The next three episodes ("Silence in the Library", "Forest of the Dead", "Midnight") were all frighteningAnd then the show was turned off on a very dramatic, high stakes in the three -part final. The "Unicorn and the Osa" was supposed to be the last point when Donna's life and the doctor felt simple and carefree, and definitely succeeds in that regard.

When the "Doctor Who" made his episode of Christie in Season 8, with the 12th doctor finally followed that call of season 5, it was in a much darker period of characters' life. "Mama of Orient Express" was the first episode after "Kill the Moon", the episode where Clara and the doctor have a great deal. The episode is part of a time when Clara is very close to leaving the doctor for the good, and the doctor fights more than ever with the question of whether he is a good person or not. (This is probably the big thematic question of season 8.)

The result is that this episode is interesting, but it is difficult to laugh. Clara and the doctor enter some serious arguments and when one -off characters die in this episode, she really stabbed. Here, writer Jameimi Methesorski used Christie's general premise as an opportunity to explore difficult issues of life or death, the doctor and Clara struggling with the whole season; The duo can finish the story on a positive note, but they go on a difficult journey to reach that point.

Overall, seasons 4 and 8 dealt with two very different arcs for its main duo. Season 4 was the last season of the tenth doctor, all that the audience will enjoy it before going. Meanwhile, Season 8 was for all Capaldi to prove to the audience, persuading us (and Clara) to let him stick around. The result is the episode of Season 8 Christie, which was far more intense and more intense than in front of it. The story may have been introduced in season 5 as part of the joke, but the real episode was a surprisingly dark affair.