Doctor Who: The Giggle Review - 8 Ups And 4 Downs
9. UP - Child’s Play
To absolutely nobody’s surprise, dolls are still terrifying.
This week we had an antagonist that could bend reality to his will, and the episode ran with this premise in a major way. Aforementioned dance number aside, we were treated to some genuine creepiness in the Toymaker’s doll house – firstly with Charles being turned into a rather disconcerting living puppet, with the Toymaker pulling the strings.
The effects on this were pretty good, and, as far as we could tell, incorporated some decent practical work, but the most memorable part of this sequence was Donna’s encounter with a horribly sinister little doll and her brood of killer demon babies.
Not only were these genuinely quite unnerving, but this scene gave us an absolutely iconic Donna moment, with her coup-de-gracing a tiny doll by grabbing it by the ankles and repeatedly smashing its head to pieces against a wall. Truly the only rational reaction in this scenario.