Doctor Who

I'm finding it all a bit weird and disconnected so far, to be honest. It almost comes across like they are finishing the scripts on the way to the studio or something. The special effects are great. The characters are great. The sets are great, but some of the things the characters say and do, just don't really make sense. I watch, then I scratch my head trying to work out what it was all about.

I mean what's with Amy's best friend Melody turning up in the last episode? To my knowledge, she's never mentioned having this best life-long friend (which you'd think she would have done at some point,) nor even referring to having named her baby after her. I also felt a bit uneasy with casting a mixed heritage actor to play the rebellious young woman in a kind of "Scary Spice" sort of tradition - you know, the back-chatting, bad influence, bad Black girl.

And it's very, very clear that Amy wouldn't stand for any nonsense about actually needing permission. It's not meant to be taken seriously.

I loved the relationship between Donna Noble and the Tenth, they were obviously best mates and the script poked fun at the 'assistant being in love' thing.

I think in previous episodes Rory was insecure/unhappy about Amy's relationship with theDr, so he's making sure Rory is aware of their relationship and including him in it by giving him the power to decline his request to hug her.

Lost my post, but it said what LRD did. Except that I do mind the permission thing. The Doctor has asked Rory before - when they met up in America? At the wedding? - can't remember when but it grated that time too.

I was also that when Amy asks the Doctor if he's found their baby yet, Rory wanders off to read the paper, seemingly more interested in photos of crop circles than the whereabouts of his own newborn.

I know they had a plot to develop, but could he not have just noticed the picture while the Doctor was waving the newpaper around while explaining?

Oh ... that's odd, I thought this would be about something else. I don't mind the permission thing too much - I thought it was meant to be a pisstake of the whole idea.

What jumped out at me was when they were talking about River Song being a psychopath the Dr made a comment along the lines of 'and she is a woman'. I thought that was really out of character and shit. But then I thought this whole episode was pretty rubbish and I didn't like River Song in it at all. She was so much better in the other episodes, I was really disappointed.

DH heard that next year there isn't going to be full series of Dr Who, just some specials, and people are saying it might not get recommissioned after that. So maybe Moffat knows that and is frantically trying to finish off his pet storylines ... it felt like a huge, unnecessary information-dump, that episode.