New Who Review for The Big Bang

[puppetmaker]

Spoilers behind the cut and in the comments. You can now talk about the season as a whole. The only reason I am putting things behind the cut is that some people haven’t had a chance to see the episode yet.

Well that was fun wasn’t it? The pay-off was nice. I have one or two quibbles but we are talking that timey-wimey kind of stuff that you just kinda backburner when it comes to Dr. Who.

I do like how everything in the season was relevant. Including what looked like a few continuity goofs but turned out to be something else entirely.

And a round of applause for the actors. They managed to make it entirely believable and some of that dialogue was a mouthful. And River Song was redeemed in my eyes.

I am grateful that Moffat was given the reins and allowed to do what he wanted to do with the Mythos.



I think the sequence between Amy, River, the Doctor, and that poor Fez was one of the funniest of the season.

They did a lot of extra footage this year to splice together this episode. I am sure that some fan has gone back and tracked all the shots and where they were dropped in. Rather clever I thought.

So Amy remembers things that didn’t exist. I still think that she is in a pocket universe. Again the companion as Deus Ex Machina is used. I am really hoping that this doesn’t happen every season from now on. I really don’t mind if everything isn’t connected. Or go back to a couple of episodes telling a story and have done with it.

How does Rory remember he was plastic? Yeah, that bothered me a lot.

But it was all niggling points. Overall I was quite happy with the whole season.

I am looking forward to the next season. I have a feeling that we are going to find out about River and why Daleks aren’t happy to see her.