Dr Who May 2011

Hmm,

I am really not sure at all about this series so far!

I like Matt Smith. He’s not the same kind of Dr as David Tennant was, but I am ok with that I think (though I do miss his approach!). But I am wondering whether this time around they have decided to go too clever with the story and the overall approach that they’ve taken. We’ve had a two parter for the first episode, which was kind of silly and unnecessary to my point of view. We had a bizarre (and forgettable in so many senses) alien which wasn’t really that scary and it took 90 minutes for the Dr to send out a short video that showed it asking us to kill it. For me it didn’t work.

You could then add in to that what I anticipate will be the ongoing mystery of the astronaut who appears to have become the Dr’s daughter (guess work there) and is busy regenerating in a dark alleyway somewhere in America (why not Wales?) and on that note, since Dr Who has been filmed in Wales for the last few episodes, how and why did his daughter end up in America rather than Cardiff? Time will tell and will no doubt prove to be the solution to the conundrum!

What do I think about a series that starts off with the Dr being killed (as said above by his own daughter potentially). It’s supposedly largely a children’s programme, but my son Daniel already has no idea what’s going on (actually my wife doesn’t either) and the suggestions that I’ve come up with all seem a little far fetched to me.

The questions that we’ve seen that need to be addressed?

Amy is both pregnant and not (suggesting two consecutive realities at the same time – a paradox that the Dr will need to sort out, also meaning why he isn’t dead when he is!) and appears to be the parent of the child that was in the space suit and is now free to leave it. A bit daft really – it stretches the mind to think of the Dr and Amy making babies whilst Rory is wandering off elsewhere in the Tardis. And is he still a strange robot thing anyway?

In fact I think that the only ray of sunshine in the series so far is Riversong. But that’s because I think that she’s gorgeous!