A Town Called Mercy review/thoughts

[kilodalton]

I just ... idk ... something really felt missing. This was like Firefly without the "fire" part.

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1. I really felt like I was gonna start hearing the Firefly theme at any time. Space western and all that ...

2. So um ... what happened to the whole "it's home for us, doctor" and 11's emo!face at Amy and Rory's leaving the end of the last episode? Why

Comments

[kelkat9]

LOL I kept thinking about Cowboys and Aliens at the beginning of this! Agreed it was a Meh ep.

[spicandspan89]

"Firefly without the fire" is a very good descriptor! IDK what it was missing... it felt too rushed to me. Like the one-off characters weren't very well sketched, particularly the townspeople.

Lol some of the accents were pretty bad.

Susan/Arthur - I like this idea!

I like to think we are seeing Eleven getting progressively ~darker. It is Moffat at the helm, so we can of course expect some back-and-forth on this.

lol @ Eleven preferring a Dalek. He won't be singing that tune once he meets them again and won't be able to talk his way out of trouble.

[place_to_hide]

Well and the Isaac character, kind of sounded like Adam Baldwin.

I just watched last week's episode. Dunno why but I looking for clues to how the ponds leave in the 5th ep. I got awfully suspicious of the conversation Eleven and Amy had towards the end. About who might out live who or whatever. When Amy said something to Eleven like he may live longer than she will. I was like... *GASP* Doesn't mean Amy dies does it? :/

[wheatear]

I agree, it was the lack of continuity that really threw me off. I couldn't work out how the characterisation and moral dilemma presented in this episode related to the previous episode, or to the series arc in general.

[kh1369]

I believe we're once again left to fill in the blanks with the Ponds here and assume some time has passed between episodes. I'm just kinda wondering how that went down - did Eleven call up the Ponds to have a chat, and were they like, "oh, hey, can you take us to the Day of the Dead? TARDIS travel service at our beck and call?"

I noticed the Gunsligher not actually killing anyone, too - even after explicitly saying he'd come back and kill everyone.

And I agree with your last point - like, he'd just been saying the night before that he was afraid of dying. I didn't see anything that would have given him enough character development to then go and take his own life 12 hours later. *shrugs*

Absolute "meh" on the ep. I'm just happy I wasn't angry over it.