Hello everyone - posting late due to watching late because of RL. I know, shite planning!
Anyway.. to tonight's ep: fairly obvious, really, wasn't it? Quite cliched, almost. But imperfect Doctor Who is still better than most of the dross on TV these days and it was diverting enough.
I kind of expect more from Toby Whithouse, though, but perhaps it's hard writing a good standalone ep when everything is building to a particular climax in just a couple of eps. Compared with School Reunion, Vampires of Venice and God Complex it seemed a bit more Dr-Who-by-numbers.
Agree with Tee and others the whole morality thing is really being shoved down our throats. And no doubt will play a big part in ep 5. What if either Amy or Rory dies and the other asks the Doctor to go back in time so they can save them, and the Doctor says he cannot because he isn't allowed to re-write time? His morality is his prison, as Jax said tonight.
And the doctor threatening someone with a pistol? Ready to leave someone to their deathly fate? Really? Mmmm, interesting. Like confuddled said, what about the man who said he never would? OK so he didn't in the end, but he was nearly there. And is this really to show us how much he needs a human companion to stop him doing the wrong thing? Slight echos of Donna there. And look how that turned out.
Anyone else think that Amy might live (just long enough) to regret that speech about how the doctor should not kill (or leave to their deaths) aliens responsible for many deaths?
The other quip from Amy was interesting tonight, too - "All our friends are going to start realising we're aging faster than them." It's the first time anyone has said something like that regarding their time in the tardis. I wonder if that will come back to bite her somehow.
Interesting point Eleanor re the explosions at the end of every ep so far.
Also a recurring theme of self -sacrifice so far this series - Neffi, Oswin, now Jex. So taking all the above into consideration, ever feel like Rolf Harris is standing in the background saying "Can you predict what the eppy 5 plot is yet??" 