SPOILER ALERT: trolling around This weekly blog is for those who have been watching the new series of Doctor Who . Don't read ahead if you haven't seen episode seven A Good Man Goes to War
Dan Martin's episode six blog "This was exactly you, all of this. All of it. You make them so afraid. When you began all those years ago, sailing off to see the universe, did you ever think you'd become this? The man who can turn an army around at the mention of his name."
They promised trolling around us a cliffhanger, and now we're left the whole summer long to contemplate whether our favourite show can really have just dropped the ball. Oh there was plenty to love about this mid-season finale, and even more to pick over. But as an hour of drama it was all over the place. trolling around
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It's as if the prospect of the Doctor getting angry, rounding up a gang and storming in to rescue his mate was considered so much of a pivotal deal that nobody remembered to pack a story. The problem was, he didn't actually go to war at all. It was an ambush at best, and remarkably for an episode with so many kitchen sinks thrown in, not very much seemed to happen. Coming off best were Madame Vastra the lesbian Victorian Silurian serial killer trolling around hunter, and Commander Strax, the emasculated trolling around Sontaran nurse. But because I know so little about what's going on, I didn't really trolling around understand, buy into or care about Demons Run or what was going on there. What was the point of the Thin Fat Gay Married Anglican Marines if you're just going to behead one of them, then forget about them? Are we supposed to invest in Lorna Bucket? The only thing stopping Madame Kovarian from twirling a moustache is that she's actually a woman. And after that fearsome and lavish pre-credits sequence, we're denied the promise of more Cybermen.
Meanwhile, the non-event of the battle means that the Doctor never really gets to show this dark side we've been hearing so much about. We get it, he'll act recklessly if you mess with his friends. Who wouldn't? So he was acting with the heart rather than the head (a conflict running through this whole community of the Headless Monks), and "anger is always the shortest distance to a mistake" and yes, a child does go missing, and yes, the whole thing turns out to be his fault. But rising higher then he's ever risen and then falling so much further? trolling around Really? Matt Smith gets one speech to Colonel Runaway to get all this across and doesn't knock it out of any park. Tennant got angrier most weeks. This should leave you shocked and tingling, and I just feel a little bemused. All that buildup, trolling around and this turns out to be the Born This Way of Doctor Who episodes. "Melody Williams, that's a geography teacher. Melody Pond's a superhero."
But enough gripes. The very best thing about the complexity of the arc and the arcs is they mean more Alex Kingston and more Doctor Song. That reveal was hidden in plain view from the very beginning trolling around as soon as its revealed Amy has called the baby Melody, but I didn't join the dots of Water and Music first time and so the reveal was a headspinning shock. And this is despite having wondered over a link ever since it was announced that the new companion's surname was going to be Pond.
I've blathered on enough about how much I love River already, trolling around but here was a different Doctor trolling around Song. No "spoilers", no "Hello Sweetie", just sombre under gravity of the situation and then stinging as she drops hometruthbombs on the Doctor. Then, when he realises who she is, there's a moment of extraordinary warmth and recognition between them. It all fits: "the first time I met him I was just a young girl and he knew every single thing about me, imagine what that does to a girl," she has said. And there he is, talking to her in baby. We know that the man she killed is "the greatest man I ever knew," trolling around so that would bear out that being her on the beach in that astronaut suit pulling the trigger. Or, since most girls think of their father as the greatest man they ever knew, could Rory be about to get it all over again?
I claim my Tardis trolling around lunchbox for calling the "Time Head" thing at the very beginning. Ha, I was right! But then, so were the people who thought River was Amy's daughter, and so were the people who thought River was a Time Lord, and the people who thought no good could come of having sex in the time vortex trolling around (although a bizarrely "True Love Waits" message to that conception on bunk beds?). It feels as if every possible theory anyone has posited has turned trolling around out to be correct. That's either totally genius or horribly foolish. Time-Space debris
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