i thought this was amazing right up to the end my only problem with this eipisode is the ending was a bit rushed but i really really liked this one

OK, so I watched The Power of Three and genuinely don’t know what the point was.

It wasn’t a bad episode necessarily, I don’t feel particularly negative about the episode, The Brigadier’s daughter was an interesting inclusion and the amount of talking was actually a positive.

But at the end of the episode, I fail to see the point in the whole episode. The cubes were just some extermination device that only half-heartedly tried to kill people before a Shakri ship, legends amongst Time Lords, were so easily defeated.

So although I don’t feel bad after having watched the episode, what was the point of the episode?

…….And yes, again, there was problems with lights going wrong like in other Series 7 episodes.

I feel like this was very much a filler episode! Last week was good, you had the good plot, the different, darker Doctor explored and then next week you have the angels and the exit of the Ponds. This episode felt pointless, it didnt really have a plot, the real story behind it was Amy and Rory dealing with the choice of the Tardis or normal life, not the invasion of the cubes. Not a very memorable episode for me at all.

A mix of good and bad. Amy/Rory gain some much needed (finally!) context for their travels with the Doctor (something I felt has been needed since Let’s Kill Hitler) and the focus on them is a GOOD THING BTW.

However the other side of the story was underwritten is was bizarre. The Shakri don’t seem to exist for any purpose accept to example the underwhelming purpose of the cubes by means of saying that they are exterminators (AI, they kill just… because okay!), and the fact that they were defeated with a flick of a sonic screwdriver via a ship accessed far too easily (and even stumbled into my Rory’s dad) was silly, as was the fact that the warphole (which was one of seven on Earth) was in Rory’s Hospital. They can’t even use the Cardiff Rift excuse anymore for that one.

All in all though, so long as you remember where the focus of the story is, it was pretty good.

This was a very mixed bag. The first part was boring but overall it ran smoothy. What a wonderful tribute to the The Brigadier to include his daughter, this time played extremely well by Jemma Redgrave. If anything this shows how much better a calming influenze has on the Doctor and how much better a Doctor and older companion would be, rather than the continuing “Dolly Bird” (as Ben Jackson would have said.)
The story shows how Rory and Amy have had their day and the characters are being dragged on for no reason than SM vanity. Mark Williams made the episode worth watching. Matt Smith showed amazing potential as the Doctor, a definite throwback to the 1st/2nd Doctor characters.

Nice to see Christmas considering it’s been mentioned for three weeks now!

This was really quite a good episode, to be honest. It’s like one of those adventures you hear about but usually never see. One very positive aspect of it was the development in terms of the current story with Amy and Rory, obviously, choosing to return to the Doctor’s world.

Nice to see UNIT once again, although I couldn’t get over the fact that UNIT’s Tower of London base looks nothing like it did in 2005 and now looks like the cathedral from The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People (pedantic, I know). Also, the discussion between the Doctor and Kate about the Brigadier was perfect.

I thought it was an enjoyable episodes though I found the cubes rather pointless. I don’t really understand the point of them. I was glad UNIT returned they were under used which was disappointing. The Power of Three was really about how the Doctor and his 2 companions are powerful together than apart.

I only have one question. Moffat do you watch this stuff before you let them air it? This episode had plenty of time to redeem itself only it didn’t seem interested in doing that. One crappy alien and one bit of nostalgia does not a show about people for people make!

If you’ve run out of ideas then maybe you should just stick with Sherlock!

One bit that was good due to its consistency is the 11th Doctor’s reaction to having only one working heart. It follows the 10th Doctor’s reaction to having only one heart working in The Shakespeare Code

i give it 2/10
I thought I was Watching The Sarah Jane Adventures.
Unit was very underused and looked boring, No sense of Danger and villian was bland as toast!
Must have run out of money as it looked so cheap.
Hope next weeks is better

The Shakri states that they are there to wipe out humanity before they spread across the galaxy, and prepares to launch a second wave of cubes to kill even more before disappearing. The force behind the cubes turns out to be the Shakri, whom the Doctor had always thought to be a legend designed to scare Gallifreyan children. They serve the “Tally” – i.e. the reckoning or final judgment.

I thought it interesting this updated rubiks cube could be so interesting a few fun cameo appearances. I found it interesting how it manifested from box to computer to the human heart all in one episode. Also interesting that a defribulator would work on an alien with two hearts. Loved having dad Brian again along for the ride and Rory with his usual gimmick. Nice to see that they have given his character a bit more substance than just that.
I would love to have the Doctor come round to mine and do an hour’s work would be lovely. But I don’t think this is the last of this Shakri as it was just a ship and a hologram so we could meet them again later perhaps with the Doctor and his new companion.

I liked this episode, although I felt the resolution was a bit too . . . deus ex machina, I suppose. They found the spaceship, chatted a bit with its sinister if bizarrely impotent autopilot, and then the Doctor waved his sonic screwdriver and saved the day. The cubes were a great concept, but it seemed that the scriptwriter couldn’t think of a good resolution, or maybe had one but they were out of time, and so it got reduced to “Doctor waves the sonic screwdriver around and fixes everything”. All in all, the Shakri were underused. That bugged me. But I liked the idea of the Doctor trying to live with the Ponds, rather than the other way around, and I liked the exploration of the difficulties of trying to maintain these two lives. This was also something great about “The Death of the Doctor” in “The Sarah Jane Adventures” — that exploration of what happens to companions trying to live normal lives. And Brian Williams is awesome, and so is the Brigadier’s daughter.

All in all, I felt this was a good rest before the excitement that is sure to come in next week’s episode. Certainly not one of the best episodes, but it was enjoyable, and my daughters loved it, which for me is always a major factor.

Another thought: we saw people using the cubes for all sorts of things, but how come we didn’t see anybody try using them as building materials or tools? They seemed to all end up as paperweights and doorstops. If they’re indestructible, surely they’d have a lot of other uses. And still would, now that their function has been exhausted. But maybe that’s just my engineer brain. ;-)

One last thought — the underuse of the Shakri could be redeemed in the future, if a sequel is written and we find out that it wasn’t quite as simple as the Doctor thought. Surely if they’re this concerned, they’ll try again.

I thought that the ending of this episode was rushed, and the way that the problem was resolved wasn’t very good, the Doctor just sonics it and everything’s fine! I loved the return of UNIT, although they were slightly underused, and the Brigadier’s daughter was great.

I’m left a little confused. So if anyone can explain that would be great! Firstly, who wrote the book
? Was it River? And how did the last Page narrated by Amy get into the book? Also when they went back at the end did they spend the rest of their years in that house waiting to watch themselves die. I’m confused what they did and how they could watch themselves die. I was tired! Thank you!

I agree it was quick and pointless they didnt have enough storylins for theponds