#DR. WHO SLEEP NO MORE FREE#

The bad news is that most medical insurance plans in the United States do not cover treatment for snoring without obstructive sleep apnea. The good news is that the patient does not have obstructive sleep apnea and its association with some significant health concerns. However, the sleep study may show no evidence of obstructive sleep apnea. We will order a sleep study, assuming that they have obstructive sleep apnea.

Let’s hope this isn’t it.As a snoring and sleep apnea surgeon, I see patients all the time who snore and report being sleepy. It’s inevitable that they’ll eventually commit to a Weeping Angels origin story. Was there a subtle Weeping Angels reference in there? In 2010’s The Time of Angels, dust came pouring from Amy’s eye like sleep.Is opening an episode with “You must not watch this” a cleverly meta way of capturing the viewer’s attention ( Doctor Who’s version of the evening news’s, “This report contains images that may disturb some viewers”)? Or a dangerous gambit if the episode turns out to be poorly-received by the majority of viewers? You can answer that one.It’s hard to tell what’s a deliberate reference any more.

#DR. WHO SLEEP NO MORE FREE#

Was the “space pirates” reference a reference to The Space Pirates? (Feel free to use that as a warm-up, drama students.) It felt like it should be, but there wasn’t much to grab onto.

See, you always learn something watching Doctor Who/reading these recaps.

Why was the space station called Le Verrier? It was orbiting Neptune, the planet discovered by (amongst others) Urbain Le Verrier.

Perhaps he’s still coasting from nailing it with The Boneless. The Silurian misnomer is a famous one, but getting to name his enemies isn’t all that common an occurrence.

Does the Doctor really name all of his enemies? He seems upset that Clara names these creatures the Sandmen, muttering, “It’s the Silurians all over again”.

Is this the first episode in 52 years to not feature an opening title sequence? Yep.

Was the chilling ending of this week’s episode something that needs to be resolved, or was it just a really dark open-ended conclusion? Tune in next week to find out.

That is by design, and is not necessarily a bad thing. As a result, it’s difficult to tell if we’re actually watching a two-parter this week or not. When all those twinned titles were announced for this season, the only episodes that didn’t appear to have an obvious connection were this one, Sleep No More, and next week’s, Face the Raven. How much it will benefit is difficult to say. On the other hand, we can’t discount the fact that we naturally spend the majority of the story adjusting to this episode’s unique quirks, which makes me fairly confident that this is a story that will benefit from a second or third viewing. The aesthetic darkness and choppiness is appropriate for the format, but never quite clicks into place. And yet on first viewing, it’s a tremendously jarring and off-putting experience. Writer Mark Gatiss does find a good reason for the found footage conceit, making both its form and its motivation part of the twist. Soon, they’re attacked by creatures that they discover are the physical embodiment of dangerous sleep deprivation experiments. When they enter the station, they come across the Doctor and Clara, who are doing their usual wander-about-and-have-a-gander tourist routine. We begin with a group of space marines on a rescue mission to a space station orbiting Neptune. A show that is designed to try everything at least once is obliged to give found footage a shot it’s mandatory, in a never-would-have-picked-it way. After all, Doctor Who has been everything: it’s attempted every genre, it’s lived in every format. It’s the sort of experiment that should be attempted, but really only once. A found footage Doctor Who episode somehow feels both inevitable and completely unexpected, so it’s appropriate that it should work really well and also not in the slightest.

Dr. who sleep no more