Today I will try and actually USE my blog the way I planned to do in the first place. Fangirling the heck out of things.
I have just seen the latest episode of Doctor Who(DW). To be honest, I was expecting so much more and am a bit disappointed. Love the stories they bring and love most of the characters, but I just keep feeling that the writers(in this case Moffat) is missing out on so many possibilities. Especially about Riversong, played by Alex Kingston. I can honestly say that I didn't like that character to begin with and it haven't been easier along the way. But when it was reviled that she was Melody Pond, I was hoping that they would work a little with the character, expand it a bit, but they didn't. They had some twist in the episode, which I did like. For example, Amy and Rory's friend since childhood were Melody and that... No, that was it, actually. And barley that. Why wasn't their best friend, that predicted that they would end up together, at the wedding (don't buy the crap about her "not doing weddings".) when River was. Of course it works, but it feels forced and far from planned. When Moffat is the one writing all the essential parts about River, I can't understand why he hasn't worked this one out better than this. He is still my favourite writer in DW but he has to step up a notch now. I get that he is busy, he's writing two shows at the same time, but to be honest, if he can't keep up with both maybe he should pass the torch. Or, it's physically hurting me to say this, cancelling Sherlock. I dread to see what happened to that show, if this is what he can produce in the future. The reason I like Moffat's writing in the first place was that he was much more light hearted than RTD, but now he's going down the same road. And just like Davies, he's pairing the Doctor up with a girl. I can get that Rose didn't end up with the Doctor, but all these kissy-feely-stuff River and the Doctor is up to, is far worse than the Rose/Doctor relationship in my eyes. I just keep feeling that he's taking over RTD's toy and now makes it do what ever he wants it to do while he says: "Look, I can do better than you". I guess I just miss the original ideas he had before.
Back to the episode. For a story called Let's kill Hitler, it was awfully little about WWII. I get that it was Melody's line that they were basing the title on, but I was hoping for something else. Hate that the first (so called) review of one of my favourite shows became so negative. Matt Smith and the gang was still awesome. Rory being a BAMF, love that twist for his character, Amy is a bit blah, but she has always been that and I like her. Little Amelia making an appearance was awesome! Love that little girl! Matt is all over the place, as usual. I think that I feel the same love for him as I do for little Amelia. Some sort of protective love and a will to try to keep them from hurting themself. Have a feeling Matt would need it more though than the little girl playing Amelia though.
All and all, I'm going to give the episode 2/5. It was a little under average for a good DW episode considering it was about the main thread of the series right now.
