I came to the conclusion after watching Day of the Moon that Doctor Who is slowly starting to turn into Lost and by that I mean more answers than questions. The story continues several months after the cliffhanger and the episode takes on a decidedly dark tone with Amy and Rory been ‘killed’ with River Song falling from top floor of a building and the Doctor has been chained up and is about to be put in a sort of prison. Now it seems like Canton Delware III has turned against the Doctor but oh no, rather amusing he’s working with the Doctor. So Amy and Rory aren’t really dead and the Doctor isn’t as chained up as everyone thinks and by chance the TARDIS is invisible and kept in the prison and they manage to move the TARDIS to the position where River is falling and fall into the swimming pool. All before the titles. Hugely disappointing. So at the end of the previous episode Amy tells the Doctor that she’s pregnant and then she decides she’s made a mistake.
Thankfully that’s all that is wrong with the episode. From that point the story continues the drama. There is a lot of things in this story that I did like though and it was the idea that that the silence have been around since the dawn of time and it just appeared in my mind. The Silence suddenly appearing in the TARDIS was well done. The Children’s home is very scary and the bloke that is ‘running’ it is equally creepy. The sight of the walls having writing of ‘get out’ and other stuff added to the sense that it wasn’t the best place in America to be. The way things just happened like Amy went from having no marks on her body to having dozens was well done by the directing. I also thought the sight of all the Silence-ites hanging from the roof were fantastic.
The scene with the Doctor standing up to the Silence was a really good climax to the story and we got to see River kick some silence backside but the way the Silence were beat was very clever indeed. It uses the landing on the moon to essentially make everyone see every single silent. Brilliant. I did like it how the Doctor talked about having some adventures before finding out about the little girl. It’s a word with the viewer about the fact that normal service will be resumed with the dark and intense storylines taking a back seat for a couple of weeks. The very end of the episode came totally out of the blue. So this little girl that had appeared in the spacesuit turns out to be a Timelord, time-tot, time-girl or something like that. What will she turn out to be? Her granddaughter? No, but then again I don’t know what its suppose to be but this line does kind of back it up a little.
Doctor: Incredibly strong and running away! I like her
Another question is ‘Is Amy pregnant?’ and also ‘why did the pictures of Amy appear in that room in the children’s home?’ Hopefully these questions will be answered soon.
The performances are very good starting with Arthur Darvill who plays the jealous husband very well. When listening to Amy talking she thinks he talking about the Doctor and it turns out she’s talking about him. This nastier side of Rory is quite a refreshing change. Stuart Milligan isn’t as involved in the story and is reduced to a comedy role in this episode but its still a good performance and it’s great to think that the President of the United States was travelling in the TARDIS. I also thought that Karen Gillan also put in a good performance as did Matt Smith.
Day of the Moon is a good end to the two parter and after the wobbly start to the episode it picks up and ends on a high note. The Doctor’s trip to America was a worthwhile one and it’s a cracking way of starting the 32nd series of Doctor Who. I just hope that the rest of the series (both halves) live up to the standard that this story has set.
Thankfully that’s all that is wrong with the episode. From that point the story continues the drama. There is a lot of things in this story that I did like though and it was the idea that that the silence have been around since the dawn of time and it just appeared in my mind. The Silence suddenly appearing in the TARDIS was well done. The Children’s home is very scary and the bloke that is ‘running’ it is equally creepy. The sight of the walls having writing of ‘get out’ and other stuff added to the sense that it wasn’t the best place in America to be. The way things just happened like Amy went from having no marks on her body to having dozens was well done by the directing. I also thought the sight of all the Silence-ites hanging from the roof were fantastic.
The scene with the Doctor standing up to the Silence was a really good climax to the story and we got to see River kick some silence backside but the way the Silence were beat was very clever indeed. It uses the landing on the moon to essentially make everyone see every single silent. Brilliant. I did like it how the Doctor talked about having some adventures before finding out about the little girl. It’s a word with the viewer about the fact that normal service will be resumed with the dark and intense storylines taking a back seat for a couple of weeks. The very end of the episode came totally out of the blue. So this little girl that had appeared in the spacesuit turns out to be a Timelord, time-tot, time-girl or something like that. What will she turn out to be? Her granddaughter? No, but then again I don’t know what its suppose to be but this line does kind of back it up a little.
Doctor: Incredibly strong and running away! I like her
Another question is ‘Is Amy pregnant?’ and also ‘why did the pictures of Amy appear in that room in the children’s home?’ Hopefully these questions will be answered soon.
The performances are very good starting with Arthur Darvill who plays the jealous husband very well. When listening to Amy talking she thinks he talking about the Doctor and it turns out she’s talking about him. This nastier side of Rory is quite a refreshing change. Stuart Milligan isn’t as involved in the story and is reduced to a comedy role in this episode but its still a good performance and it’s great to think that the President of the United States was travelling in the TARDIS. I also thought that Karen Gillan also put in a good performance as did Matt Smith.
Day of the Moon is a good end to the two parter and after the wobbly start to the episode it picks up and ends on a high note. The Doctor’s trip to America was a worthwhile one and it’s a cracking way of starting the 32nd series of Doctor Who. I just hope that the rest of the series (both halves) live up to the standard that this story has set.
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