Doctor Who - Discussion Thread II

Tom MacRae wrote Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel way back when - this was a definite improvement on that. It's honestly amazing how the show has come along stylistically since Moffat took over - it's heads and tails above most American sci-fi which has three times the budget.

One thing that keeps annoying me is how amy hardly ever mentions her baby. when mums lose their babies, even if they've only had them for a day or two, they say that they think about them all the time. Amy seems to have forgotten she even had one!

You mean like how, when older Amy speaks about how she needed company, the only names suggested were Rory, and Mr Biggles, their favourite cat?

IMO, this series has been brilliant with one or two duds (CotBS and NT). Amy has grown and improved as a character and Rory has manned up and grown on me. I've loved Smith from day one and I didn't think it was possible for him to get any better but he has. I've loved the story arc of River Song/Melody Pond and I don't think it was too obvious even despite all the spoilers.

But the one thing that really pisses me off is the Pond's indifference to their own child. It just doesn't make any sense. Yeah I know they didn't have a normal pregnancy what with being a flesh and not knowing she was pregnant until the last minute but Amy has had time to bond with her child although not so much Rory and it doesn't make any sense that they would go on travelling with the Doctor accepting that they at least got to raise River as Mels because that's not really the same. You'd have thought with Moffat being a parent he would have at least thought this through or that there's something in the next 3 episodes to rectify this even if it's only a little mention of Melody, a longing look from Rory/Amy, an empty crib in the hotel room of next episode or just anything.

One thing I would like to see though is more of Matt's portrayal of the more sinister side of the Doctor. A bit less over-excited kid at Christmas (though that's never without its charm), and a bit more grumpy old man. Him betraying older-Amy like he did was a bit of a bastard move, but then passing that choice on to Rory was almost heartless. And I don't think we've had that side of him since The Beast Below, which is a shame, because it was a refreshing take on who the Doctor is.

IMO, this series has been brilliant with one or two duds (CotBS and NT). Amy has grown and improved as a character and Rory has manned up and grown on me. I've loved Smith from day one and I didn't think it was possible for him to get any better but he has. I've loved the story arc of River Song/Melody Pond and I don't think it was too obvious even despite all the spoilers.

But the one thing that really pisses me off is the Pond's indifference to their own child. It just doesn't make any sense. Yeah I know they didn't have a normal pregnancy what with being a flesh and not knowing she was pregnant until the last minute but Amy has had time to bond with her child although not so much Rory and it doesn't make any sense that they would go on travelling with the Doctor accepting that they at least got to raise River as Mels because that's not really the same. You'd have thought with Moffat being a parent he would have at least thought this through or that there's something in the next 3 episodes to rectify this even if it's only a little mention of Melody, a longing look from Rory/Amy, an empty crib in the hotel room of next episode or just anything.

I can't help wondering if the lack of mention of Melody isn't because of the Silence in the Tardis.. Nothing else except shoddy writing makes sense, and for all of the complaints I have about Moffat, he doesn't seem to be a shoddy writer.

But there isn't a Silent in the Tardis the one in the first episode was a projected image from Amy's phone.