I’m happy to see a ship in the bottle episode in the TARDIS. Last season’s Doctor’s Wife was more psychological while this was more action oriented I thought. It is the one type of episode that could easily be stretched out into a multiple episodes and I wouldn’t bat an eye since Doctor Who has been around for 50 years and after 900 years the Doctor must have an metric ton worth of baggage and possibly even a stowaway civilization on board. The set designers pull off some nice rooms: the observatory, the aforementioned pool, the library, a giant tree that can manufacture anything you want and the TARDIS’s engine room which impressed me more than her center. Unfortunately, it’s the leaps in logic that’s making me re-watch the last five minutes and I’m starting to agree with my mother: Is this half of the season sucking.
2nd episodes for companions have followed a certain formula since Rose and #9 jaunted off. Save Cardiff in Episode 1 and go somewhere mind blowing in Episode 2. The Rings of Akhaten falls somewhere between Love and Monsters and Fear Her on my I want my 40mins back Doctor Who scale of suck.
“I don’t know where I am.” So begins the 2nd half of the seventh series (season) of Doctor Who and the introduction (again) of the new TARDIS control room and the new companion, Clara Oswald played once again by Jenna-Louise Coleman.
Thank you for a scary Doctor Who Christmas Story. In previous years it’s been cute but we have scary since Christmas Invasion and for the most part it works. Unfortunately, it doesn’t hold together well in the end because the villain while able to make snowmen with teeth doesn’t hold up and turns out to be a possible plot thread for the rest of season 6.
Good use of River Song, Angels and saying goodbye without having to use a Russell T Davies 2 part season finale. Hopefully the Christmas Episode will contain less sugar than the previous Christmas Episodes. Spoiler post tomorrow.
From dinosaurs one week to cowboys the next, A town called Mercy opens like many Doctor Who episodes with a teaser! A stand off between two aliens, a cyborg on one side and a alien dressed up like a Mad Max reject, the reject dies only for the cyborg to state the Doctor is next.
Dinosaurs was a fun episode but for the fun I think it squeezed too many people into 43 minutes. It has been 10 months since the Ponds saw the Doctor and things seem to be on the mend in the household. Meanwhile the Doctor and Queen Nefertiti just saved her people from locusts and before long she and the Doctor are off so quickly you wonder if the Doctor is going to continue light hearts afire across time and space. See there is a problem in the 24th Century, a giant ship is about to crash into Earth and the International Space Agency has summoned the Doctor for help and he in turn goes back in time to get a big game hunter, Riddell played by Rupert Graves and the Ponds in under two minutes and while the audience tries not suffer from whiplash the TARDIS arrives on the spaceship only to find Dinosaurs! Cue the credits.
