I think her trying to fuck him puts her squarely in romantically interested companion, pre-wedding jitters or no

I have a problem with the latest series that I feel it tries too hard to be epic and cool. Which is surprising considering how great the season 5 ending was. Doctor's slowly being erased from time and Matt Smith nails it. Otherwise its attempts at emotion lately feel hollow and artificial.

Hm, I didn't get that. I thought that in the god complex we heard a distinct broken tardis sound or something

I disagree, the only messiness was the Time Lord plan to escape Gallifrey, but besides that it was a pretty solidly constructed story. This one however tried to tie together various plot threads in 45 minutes, was full of meaningless montages, and the narrative logic was a real head scratcher

But she was Rory and Amy's best friends, and Mel regularly got into trouble in school yelling about the Doctor, not exactly a, highly trained secret agent move

I don't understand your criticism, part 1 set up everything that happened in part 2. Master's resurrection, Ood prophecy of doom, the Time Lord woman talking to Wilfred, Wilfred's search. I wouldn't call that nothing.

True, Ponds should have really left after the God Complex imo. and given Clara so much more time. But I really feel they should have been back as full guest starts, as a Clara rounds them up to save the doctor sort of way.

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I just hope there's a running gag where people remark Capaldi looks like a man who might commit a family murder-suicide. The future is now people.

The old man make-up really blunted his performance for me. It was damn unnecessary and distracting having him act old. He was already the oldest incarnation, but with the youngest face. I liked that look.

I just wish that "all the enemies of the Doctor have gathered" is put to rest for a while. This was what, the fourth time?

I rewatched the end of time because I realized how little about it I was remembering. But damn it was actually WAY better than I remembered it to be. Every scene with Wilfred was gold, their face-to-face time alone maybe totaling 15 minutes.

I thought the angels couldn't use their time powers because they were too weak in that that two parter

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Also who raised Mel? did she go home everyday to madame kavorkian? Coincidental foster home nearby to her parents? because she seemed like a none too special rebellious girl.

Story might have been pushing past 10 on the silliness, but for me it nailed the send off with amazing dialogue and acting that vindicated the entire thing. I mean that one had Wilfred, this one had a robot head. I'll take that any day over this one.

I know that, but there was zero dimension to them. It would have been easier to send them away in the tardis like Clara or find a way to help them escape. Hell he knew clara for a year, he knew them for generations. Buried them all. I didn't get any of that emotion from the special. Was there a reason they had to stay?

I didn't even think they got the regeneration scene right. It felt like a pretty generic speech about "moving on with your life" to me. Amy's appearance only pointed it how that they should have brought back the ponds for the send off.

I am incredibly surprised by the reactions to the episode. I thought this was a TERRIBLE episode. Say what you will about RTD, but my god did he know how to nail a send off. Not whatever the fuck this was. Best acting of Smith's career? Hell no.