couple thoughts: eleven/river still gross me out, amy/rory are my parents, and richard nixon f*cking sucks. that's it. also eleven's speeches? still bomb
I'm not exactly sure how i feel about this episode, and the two part beginning of this season.
The episode feels constrained, stretched apart by the desire to create a standalone two parter and resolve it, but also be part of a larger arc.
The whole faking their deaths to get information felt a bit unncessary, when they could have just worked together normally. But i'll roll with it.
The silence have been influencing people to do what they want? All we saw was some confused guy helping to care for a kid.
The silence who wanted to look after the kid and even still give her independence?
We saw on the kids desk a photo of Amy and her child already been born, so we know the kid is probably Amy's child. And there's somehow a photo that was taken? And still with her? How is this all going to make sense? Why didn't Amy ask the doctor why they kidnapped her? And her pregnancy is unstable/there and not there?
And these silence have been the scourge of the universe?
They're not even that strong. A few gun shots and the creature was on the ground injured.
And they supposedly made humanity want to go to the moon to make a spacesuit? Way to limit the human desire alone to go to the moon. And all to make a spacesuit?
But i thought the spacesuit was really advanced, too advanced for 1960s technology?
I liked the way of defeating the silence, even though as someone else pointed about it's basically genocide on a race that didn't interfere much with humanity.
River is hot. And cool. That's all.
I mean i enjoyed the episode and the character interactions and finding out more about the silence. The creature design is pretty creepy along with their ability, and it's nice the ways the doctor and companions are keeping track of when they see them.
But i feel in trying to set up a larger arc, it didn't make these two episodes stand up enough on their own in regards to their central narrative, along with the confusion in the episode about certain things and how we think the mysteries are going to be resolved.
That was scary. And confusing, And brilliant.
8.5/10
Sensational
I just have one issue
"The Silence" have been
here from the beginning of
the human race, so they
are fully aware of all human
Technologies and their
purpose, so why oh why
would one let himself be
recorded on a phone knowing
that is one weakness they
have and that alone would
Expose their entire race.
No way would they just
let themselves get recorded
then go on to threaten
the entire human race while
being recorded.
That being said it was
still a banger of an episode
and The Doctor did right
getting the Silence hunted
and killed these buggers
had already taken over
the entire planet killed
God knows how many humans
thousands,millions
"Who Knows" they don't
seem to need a reason,
Like with that woman in
the restroom, so with
the planet already being
theirs it needed extreme
Prejudice to take the planet
back, any other way
it would never work
The Silence is a deadly race.
The Doctor and River
were amazing and super
Cool and I'm so excited
to solve our Pond problem
because something is definitely
not right with her and
The Doctor knows it.
That last scene WTAF
"it's okay I can fix it, it's
easy.......BOOM"
I tend to have problems with the resolution of any two parter with some exceptions. Sadly, Day of the Moon is one of those episodes. There are things left in the air, like how they could start investigating the silence or how they could transport the T.A.R.D.I.S inside the cell without anyone stepping on it by accident. Definitely, my biggest issue is WHY THE DOCTOR DECIDED IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO KILL ALL SILENCE WHEN THEY WERE INOFFENSIVE MOST OF THE TIME (or at least they should have, 'cause the whole zip zip stuff from ¨The Impossible Astronaut¨ was out of nowhere).
Besides that, how the episodes handles the atmosphere and plays with the idea of someone knowing they saw something dangerous but not being able to remmember it was greatly done. I still don't think it's better than the season start, but it's quite good anyways.
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There is always a first time ... and a last time... :'-(