Doctor Who: 6x08 - Let's Kill Hitler
Hoo boy, what an opener to the second half of the season! I see the Doctor's updated his wardrobe, jacket-wise. Lovely! Amy's rocking orange tights with neon green nail polish like a BAMF, and Rory's looking studly in a letterman's jacket.
But enough about the fashion! Onwards to the plot. I really, really liked the idea that this mini justice organization "gave war criminals hell" without disrupting the time line. But again it comes up that the Doctor's the biggest war criminal of all. :/ I sense a running theme here.
Mels = Melody. I mean, c'mon, it was pretty obvious. Too much of a coincidence that Amy would name her daughter after such a troublemaker best friend that we've never heard of before. Also, I like pointing out impossible paradoxes on this show. This is one of them.
BABY!RORY, OMG. This poor guy has just been kicked around all his life, hasn't he? *wibbles* I loved that when teen!Amy discovered that Rory wasn't gay and had a thing for her, she ran after him, heh! And hey, it's their daughter that hooked them up! Making sure of her existence right there!
And now Rory is a fucking badass Last Centurion who will fuck you up if you mess with his family. *SWOON* You've come so far, bb, but I'll bet it was deep inside of you all along.
Anyway, great story. I enjoyed that Nazi Germany was just the backdrop to a character driven story. A feint, if you will. "Yes, that was a feint." Oh, Doctor.
Though I'm starting to think the writers keep putting the Doctor in situations where he's hurt/dying, simply so they can watch Matt Smith contort. :P He's a good physical actor, I must say. And when he was trying to stand with that cane, I totes thought of zombres and Bellerophon. Fans of her epic story, The Lito, will know why. ;)
Honestly, even though this episode was more of an info dump than an action packed thrill ride, I enjoyed it, and it was about the characters, not spending time weighing the morals of time travelers in Nazi Germany. (Plus, it's a family show, for all its monsters and death. Giving too much attention to the Nazis is very much a no no in my eyes.)
But we did get Rory punching Nazis and driving a motorbike like a BAMF, and Amy turning off everybody's authorization bracelets like a HBIC, and Melody discovering the type of man the Doctor is and coming around and then she used up all her regenerations to save him! Though I'm confused if the Doctor whispered his name into her ear at this point or not. Maybe he just had time to say that only River could save him, IDK.
A sidenote: I loved how Amy asked Melody/River what the Doctor said, and she reaches out and touches her sleeve. It was just this subtle, great bit of acting.
IDK, the more I see of River, the sadder I get that we saw her ending up in a computer program. Don't get me wrong, at the time I really did like that ending. There are so few episodes where everybody lives that I liked that there was a way to save everybody, and River herself obviously looked happy with it, but it's just... she gets to live on (possibly forever?) without anymore adventures with the Doctor. In a way, I guess it makes a nice parallel to the Doctor, he lives on, but without those he travels with. It's still sad though.
Great moments I couldn't fit in anywhere else:
- Melody talking about hanging out with gypsies at a bar mitzvah. HA!
- Rory going, "Well you never answer your mobile!" Like father, like daughter.
- The voice protocol showing off Rose, Martha, and Donna, though those promo pics were just... IDK, weird. They couldn't get the CGI guys to gather a clip of them standing still and not talking for a second so it looked more real? But the Doctor going "Guilt! GUUUUILT!" was amusing because I was like, "You'd better feel guilty, Bub!" Apparently I morphed into Wolverine for a second there...
- I love that we now know what River meant in 5x04 about the best pilot teaching her how to fly the TARDIS and it wasn't the Doctor. It was the TARDIS herself. Oh, Sexy...
Next week, just random horrors to scar both children and adults for life? Oh, Moffat, you mindfucker, you.