Review: Doctor Who – Day of the Moon
Welcome back to DOOM’s weekly Doctor Who reviews. This week we saw the conclusion to the first story of series 6. And what a conclusion it was! Though I must say, these last two episodes have been extremely confusing. They go at breakneck speed and jump around a lot. This episode answered a few questions, but left a lot unanswered and introduced even more. I’m still not sure if I fully understand everything, but I certainly enjoyed it.
SPOILERS AHEAD
First, the Silence. They’re so creepy! Especially whenever Amy finds the huge group sleeping like bats on the ceiling. I desperately wanted someone to run in with a shotgun aimed at the ceiling. Also, keeping track of encounters with marks on their skin was a great choice aesthetically as the resemblance to scars really messes with you psychologically and adds to the creepiness. And the Doctor’s plan for defeated them was simple, elegant, and brilliant. Like any good Doctor Who conclusion should be.
River Song gets a really bad-ass moment this week with killing what seemed like dozens of Silence (Silences?) in a shoot out back to back with The Doctor. She also has a deeply tragic moment at the end when she realizes that since her and the Doctor are encountering each other in opposite directions through time, his first kiss with her was her last kiss with him. I’m going to hate to see her character go but am really looking forward to seeing what happens.
The little girl is a bit of an enigma to me. She seems to be Amy’s daughter, but Amy’s pregnancy is really weird. From the monitor in the TARDIS it looked like she was somehow constantly switching from being pregnant to not. And the biggest shocker was the little girl regenerating at the end. Is she somehow also the Doctor’s daughter? Can a half-Time Lord even regenerate? Why did she kill the Doctor last episode? And if the suit can walk by itself was she even in it at the time? I have no idea but this has the potential to turn out interesting.
So there you have it, my thought on episode 2 of this series. Be sure to comment with your own thoughts and theories. Thanks for reading!
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I’m pretty sure the suit was keeping the little girl from regenrating. I’m thinking she was a prisoner of The Silence and she’s actually The Rani.
I’m a bit ashamed I had to look up who The Rani is.
You’re still a noob so I’ll let it slide :P
Good call on The Rani. I think the little girl is River, and so she, in turn, is the Rani. Sorted! :D
P.s, I’m not entirely sure why they were pretending to be chased for three months. I’m obviously missing something… obvious.
I’m not sure about that either. I know they were investigating the Silence but the only reason I can see for them to be “captured” was to all be brought together in the end. And to have that prison to hold the captured Silence in.
I want to be excited for future episodes but I just can’t grow to love the newest doctor… In my heart, nothing he does is good enough compared to my first doctor. <3 =^]
Haha, that’s understandable. Smith was my first Doctor so Tennant and Eccleston never fully lived up to him when I watched their episodes.
I remain really disappointed. I though the Doctor’s solution to the Silence was right on, a Classic Who moment that was utterly ruined by the following scene where he starts wielding the sonic screw driver like some kind of wand of fireballs in the middle of a firefight. That image will stick in my head and sour the entire episode forever. I am also very concerned about where this little girl situation is headed. There are about a thousand ways for it to turn out terrible and none I can think of where it turns out to make sense. If she was the Rani the Doctor should have sensed her presence. If she is Susan he would have known this part of her history. If she is human or the child of Amy and Rory just traveling in the TARDIS should never allow her to regenerate and if she is River Song’s daughter how did she not know about her or talk about her when she died? All in all I have lost trust in the current show runner to show proper restraint
To me it looked like he wasn’t actually doing anything with the sonic screwdriver, just pointing it around to kind of “be involved” for comedic affect. I can see how the story with the little girl could turn out disappointing but I’m giving Moffat the benefit of the doubt as it could be great.
Yeah, I think especially with River’s comment, the screwdriver was doing nothing.
I’m hoping the regenerating girl is somehow related to Tennant’s daughter/clone, but… Rani seems more likely, somehow, if anything, now that the Master’s gone.
Lovely. =]
Thanks for reading. :)