Hmm... a bit of a mixed bag this one. One the one hand you have an excellent cast and pretty good set's then on the other you have a pretty dull and absurd script. Let's start with the good points, as I have said above the cast are simply amazing you have Hugh Bonneville as Henry Avery, Lilly Cole as the siren and other great actors playing pirates. All these great actors really add to the pirate effect that the episode has tried to give on the viewer. The next thing as I have mentioned above is the great locations used as they filmed it on a proper ship (it was moored to land at the time). They really used these locations to their full potential creating a vast ship full of pirates and quite homely I thought but they also managed to make it quite scary and creepy at times although the music and the eerie singing voice of the siren really help this effect. The directing and the music really went well together, particularly the directing, as I have said they used the ship well to make it look like they were out at sea as well as using the ship to it's full potential. Finally we come to the bad points. The script although it is quite ambitions and has some good ideas it is still a bit silly making the episode seem kind of childish and basically makes you think it's just filler after the amazing opening two part stories 'The impossible astronaut/The day of the moon' also it is slightly dull with too much time being spent of the fact there is pirates in a doctor who story. Basically you have an alien (the siren) who wants to take care of you even at the slightest cut, creating a black mark on your hand then the siren comes to get you from reflections and takes you to her hospital where she put's you on life support even though it's just a cut (told you it's a little silly but she has good intentions I guess). Basically the whole plot for about the first half an hour is everybody think the siren's evil but it's just a misunderstanding. In the end Rory dies (again) but Amy manages to resuscitate him (wrongly if I may say). Overall some good costumes for the pirates and the siren, good directing, good locations and a very ambitious story that fails in some aspects.
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