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I thought Moffat's first run was excellent, with a strong end backed up by a good number of foreshadowed elements... The opening of the second part of Pandorica, the whole ep in fact, played with time travel better than any Who finale/story I can remember.

The second run was muddled and, following the mid season break, a bit rubbish imo. The whole Amy baby 'oh it's OK now because

I've surrogate parented my child as a hostile rule breaking teenager'

was a pretty rubbish resolution to the first half set up.

No idea what I think about this one so far (haven't even seen ep 3 yet). Loved the first two, am convinced the end of the series we'll see a

Doctor-Dalek hybrid

, maybe even by the half way point... Maybe even in charge of the

parliament of the Daleks

Anyhow, regardless of all else, knocks the children's TV inspired RTD run into a cocked hat, on a different planet, several time zones away.

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Reidles

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Speculation.

I don't think it's any coincidence that the last episode of this (half) series is set in New York (with enemies who send people back in time) and so was the after-credits bit of the two-parter that started last series.

You mean the little girl RIver regenerating? I like where this theory is going, but I don't get the connection?...

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You mean the little girl RIver regenerating? I like where this theory is going, but I don't get the connection?...

I think he's suggesting that Amy and Rory will get sent back in time by the Angels and be able to raise their daughter normally. Though that raises the question of why the Doctor can't just rescue Angels victims and bring them back to their own time.

Back to this episode, which I only just got round to watching. I thought it was pretty shit. There was no sense of urgency about the plot, it lacked structure and meat. They didn't take the time to develop the minor characters so the later interactions with them seemed random and out of the blue. The Doctor's turn toward the evil felt completely out of place, despite knowing it's probably to do with the whole Dalek nanogenes thing.

It reminded me a lot of the Silurian and Ganger two-parters. Completely lost the plot.

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The whole moral dilemma thing was reminiscent of an episode of Next Gen

A Fistful Of Doctors?

Well, I watched this pretty wrecked, and thought it was pretty dull as well. The polarising opinion on here doesn't seem to help clarify my uncertainty either, so I'll probably give it another watch. I do think agree with the push to hour long episodes as well. Maybe an extra 10-15 mins means loads in TV land, but seeing as they are only doing 5 before the break this time, and with the focus of epic/blockbuster episodes; it seems logical.

Anyway, I'm not sure on the whole Doctor nano-genes thing. Seems to obvious and possibly too final for there to be a suitable resolution. Still, happy to see what develops though.

Also, thinking back to River, with her first appearance in the series being chronologically her last, is Moffat just doing the same type of thing with Oswin?

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It was ok, nothing terribly exciting. I get the impression it was more fun to make than it was to watch. :)

I did laugh at Susan the horse, though.

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Right, I've seen the first two parts of 'The Chase' and it seems fine, if a little silly. Time-travelling Daleks, giant octopodes, and Ian dancing around the Tardis to the Beatles - what's not to love?

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It was ok, nothing terribly exciting. I get the impression it was more fun to make than it was to watch. :)

I did laugh at Susan the horse, though.

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Right, I've seen the first two parts of 'The Chase' and it seems fine, if a little silly. Time-travelling Daleks, giant octopodes, and Ian dancing around the Tardis to the Beatles - what's not to love?

Come back when you've seen the Marie Celeste and Universal Monsters bits...

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Come back when you've seen the Marie Celeste and Universal Monsters bits...

Ok, just seen parts 3 and 4. The New York bit and the Marie Celeste... fine, silly but fun.

Then the haunted house. Oh dear god WHAT?! Definitely taken a turn for the weird. It was a theme park attraction? So, they were actors? But they were invulnerable to Dalek laser? What? WHAT?!!

Poor production, too. Cameraman shadows all over the set, audio cutting in too early.

And then robo-Doctor at the end, for some baffling reason played by a different actor when he's the only one in that shot, and they're saying he's indestinguishable from the original. Wow.

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Hmm, well aside from the ridiculous haunted house episode, I thought 'The Chase' was pretty good, particularly the final part where the Daleks and the robo-spheres have a massive shootout and their whole city explodes. And then Ian and Barbara leave and go back to London. Sad times. :(

Ah well, good for you if you got something out of The Chase. What's up next?

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