"Doctor Who" or "Fallacies Therof" [POTENTIAL RISK OF SPOILERS WITHIN]

[Nique]

The episode failed at everything that Moffat's Who run was doing right. I don't care that River Song is someone else for a while or about regeneration and TARDIS rules and stuff that is easy to explain away becuase it's Doctor Who - But to have no kind of meaningful exploration of the issues surrounding traveling back in time to interact with Hitler, discovering that you've lost your child only to have grown up side by side her, or the ethics of torturing long-dead villains of the past? The episode was empty and haphazard in so many ways. Easily the most disappointing episode of new Who.

Characters and meaningful drama are driving season 5 and 6 HARD. This episode ignored crucial opportunities for Amy and Rory's development and ruined a lot of what was good about River Song who was, previously, an independent and mysterious character who could stand as equal to the Doctor in her own right. Now her entire character is dependent on the Doctor which makes their romantic relationship extremely weird to me.

At the very least they could have given us an episode that was a break from all the drama and just punched Hitler in the face a million times.

Originally Posted by Seil

Rose and Jack and Grace were better.

Rose was annoying until she was a side-character, Grace I have no frame of reference for but would guess that Donna was more entertaining. Jack was awesome though.