DW

[mrv3000]

I'm afraid this is another 2nd of two parts that I didn't like as much as the first part. DW has a bad habit of giving us great first parts and then...going sideways. I think my biggest problem was that the episode seemed so disjointed. I'm not sure if it was because there were 20 balls in the air, or the need to jump around in time, or the editing itself. (Always cutting away from the action, and then explaining the action later instead of showing it.)

There were plenty of hints that there are two different timelines going on here, like River being confused that she and the Doctor had never kissed before, and Amy being pregnant and not pregnant. So undoubtedly that relates to the Doctor being killed at the beginning. Heh. Moffat is addicted to timey-wimeyness, so what's even better than that? TWO TIMEY-WIMEYNESSES AT THE SAME TIME! Mwah.

River shooting in a circle cracked me up. It's so 1990s cheesy action film. HA! But the innuendo flirting between her and Eleven...I'm not even an asexualist and I was kind of ew-ing. It's like having Jack Harkness around ALL THE TIME. (Pfft. Fixed point in time? This is the real reason the Doctor ditched Jack. You really can only take so much of that shit.)

The Doctor's resolution to the Silence was...disturbing. Very disturbing. I'd rather not like to think I'm slaughtering aliens in my spare time. (Think of the mess!) But he didn't even seem sympathetic or guilty about it or anything. Didn't the Doctor use to apologize to mold he cleaned out of his fridge? :D

And why wouldn't the Silence just explode anyone who attacked them? Like that one did to that woman in the bathroom. For that matter, why didn't they explode any of Team TARDIS? *is confused*

The Time Lord-ish kid... Who knows at this point. I will laugh if it is Amy and Rory's kid who somehow became a Time Lord. "Surprise Time Lord" is like a good chunk of Doctor/Rose fic (and probably other DW fic as well - and I know Ianto magically becomes a Time Lord all the damn time), and to make it to the screen? XD XD

Anyway, the episode certainly was action-packed, but it just didn't live up to my excitement about the first episode. Ah well. The pirates ep looks fun. :D