Doctor Who Series 6 Opening Two Parter Review

I must say, I was bemused at these episodes from the offset, but I couldn’t look away, I am an avid fan of Doctor Who and know it has random quirks that can be explained rather really rationally when you look at it, but Mr Moffatt must be hiding this rational explanation from us for a while because I can’t quite make out the reasons for what he has planned yet.

Alex Kingston is just perfect as River, giving her character a bit more personality every time we see her, but keeping us guessing who, and what, she is, we can tell she has a past with the Doctor, and from the end of The Day Of The Moon, we can see it is not simple, but nothing is with her. I have to say that Arthur Darvill as Rory needs more space to grow though, and he has been given some lately, but, for someone like me, I want more from him as a character, and not just comic relief and to show Amy does care for someone.

I am going to complain now, and to anyone who enjoys the series, I am sorry, but the astronaut, I can deal with, the Silence, maybe or maybe not being killed, I can deal with, I can even deal with the Doctor dying and not telling the others his plan, but having a little girl REGENERATE! Out of the blue and completely randomly, I cannot deal with. I found her annoying, stupid and pointless except to get Amy caught and for her to show how much she really loves Rory, just in case we forgot she was there for the dads watching, “wink, wink”, but this child just enforces my hatred for children in film and now television, because she is going to be such an annoying character, I just know it. The Silence were a good monster, if a bit vague, but that was meant to be part of the appeal, which is good, but when we know Moffatt can bring out the Angels with huge backstories, which terrify kids before they even see them, and we know the Daleks work incredibly well, in part because of their history, their backstory, which is what annoyed me about the Silence, they seemed to be a get out clause within a get out clause so we can see a whole load of technobabble and not have to have any reason for it.

Of course, I enjoyed the conclusion; the Silence condemning themselves to death was fitting and the video clip while watching the space landing was clever, funny and inventive. I enjoyed this opening two parter, but with the final scheduled to be just one episode long, I am worried that, like we saw in the beginning of The Impossible Astronaut, this was the end of something, I just hope it isn’t the end of common sense and good plots with good, non-annoying characters, and is the end of lots of random plot holes.