Doctor Who "The Caretaker": Boys Will Be Boys

It's always funny to see the Doctor trying to blend in with humans. The Caretaker brought the Doctor to the school Clara was teaching at to investigate a strange alien reading around the area. In addition to bringing Danny Pink into the world of the Doctor. It was bound to happen at some point right that Danny are going to get in on the Clara's adventures. She has been trying to keep things separate from each other and it all just kinda collides together. It makes me think of the Ponds and how they got into this. Although I don't think Moffat will use the same plot point again. Anyways, Danny has been like a side story so far, like an add on for Clara to develop her story. The Caretaker was at least an enjoyable episode.

The Caretaker begins with a montage of a bunch of adventures of Clara and the Doctor getting into trouble all over the universe. In addition to this, Clara is attempting to date Danny, basically exhausting herself. So when Clara comes to the Doctor asking about the next adventure, and he tells her that she needs to sit this one out. She wonders why and the Doctor explains that he is going deep undercover. So Clara heads to work thinking it will be an ordinary day and tells Danny, she is his for the day. Then she discovers the Doctor working at her school as the temporary caretaker. Clara confronts the Doctor and asks him if it's safe and he basically says it's a work in progress. Now Clara has to manage the two before the school gets destroyed, or was it the planet?

I did enjoy The Caretaker as an episode of Doctor Who. It is amusing to see that the Doctor thinks changing his coat is going deep cover haha. Unless he thought that no one would notice a caretaker, but then the Doctor could never be discrete. In addition to not understanding humans. It was funny when the Doctor kept assuming that Danny was a PE teacher due to his military background, in addition to assuming the bow tie guy was Clara's boyfriend. Regrets Doctor? As for Danny, he is not taking any of the Doctor's shit and basically calls him out for it. Would love to see Danny travel with the Doctor sometime soon and stand up for Clara. As for Clara, she is desperately trying to stop the Doctor from causing problems and helping him at the same time. Loved the moments when people kept stopping her from getting to the Doctor and she basically agreed to everything. Let's not forget the crack about the eyebrows. I think it's the next bow tie, the joke that will describe this Doctor. The Caretaker more importantly was an episode to shake up the dynamic of the Doctor, Clara pairing. The Doctor has to deal with Clara having another man in her life, and Danny dealing with the life his girlfriend leads.

Now The Caretaker I felt was a bit jumbled. Not that it was a mess, but rather the pacing felt uneven. But this could just be me. I mean compared to the last few episodes, it moved a little slower. In addition the alien of the week was dissipated quite easily despite Danny messing up the Doctor's plan once. That jump Danny did was cheesy as hell. Also confused how easy the Doctor gave in to telling people about the tardis. Now Pink and some random school girl know about it. Thats about it that I can think of at the moment.

Overall I did enjoy The Caretaker and I'm going to mark this down in the successful episode category for this season. My favorite line of the night has to go to Danny with "he's your space daddy." That was possibly the best line of the season. Well one of them at least. That invisible watch was pretty cool too. As for next week's episode, it doesn't look good. There is like this gut feeling I get from the trailer that causes me to worry. Hopefully it will be decent. Doctor Who still has some good stories to tell right?

What did you think of The Caretaker? What do you think of Danny Pink?