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inspectorspacetimeconfessions:

We’re comfortable with our nerdiness. Inspector Spacetime forever!

So amazing!

Way better than I thought a show that abbreviates the word TWO would be.

More like Torture-wood

#badumbum

Last year was my favorite season of Doctor Who ever (or at least tied with the Catherine Tate season). But this year is shaping up to be my least favorite. Apart from the riveting premiere (a baby astronaut kills the Doctor!) and Neil Gaiman’s superb “The Doctor’s Wife, the point of this season seems to have gotten lost somewhere in space. 

Like a companion, viewers of Doctor Who have to take a lot on faith. We can follow convoluted and pointless time jumps. We can watch a season build up to the Doctor’s eventual death (and yet somehow still worry that he’ll die in Let’s Kill Hitler?) And we can watch a complex and fascinating female character devolve into a sexist stereotype (I’m looking at you, River Song). But we still maintain faith that the Doctor, and the writers, have a plan. And it’s an awesome one.

So we’re basically Amy in the God Complex. This episode is a stellar example of how Doctor Who doesn’t really know what it wants to do or say. It is an episode full of great ideas but it doesn’t know how to put them together to make something meaningful. Yet we keep faith that no matter how many times we get knocked around (or left behind, in Amy’s case) we have faith that the Doctor, and the writers, ultimately know where its going.

The further in the season we go, the less faith I have. At this point last season the running threat of the cracks in the universe was already strongly established. Right now, we have some vague references to The Silence which is either an alien group or a religion, or both, and we have a psychotic daughter of Rory and Amy looking to kill her future lover (are they lovers?). What is this season really about?

I bet the writers would say, the Doctor. The Doctor is the Big Bad for this season and it’s going to be him confronting his own actions that will be the real battle. If that’s the case, they better blow it out of the water because that is a story they’ve already told so many times. 

With all that said, I’m really looking forward to next week’s sequel to The Lodger. That was an episode last season that did everything right! 

Ricky Gervais, Emmy Awards