Wow what a great return for the new series, even if it was one that had Sue and Daniel repeatedly asking me what was going on - and me telling them to be quiet as I was busy trying to keep up with it all myself!
It was great to see a new stage in the development of River Song and see the pivotal moment that turns her from being the trained assassin of the doctor to becoming the love of his life. But the big question for me is how she could wear a lipstick that would kill the doctor, had no known antidote, and not be affected by it herself. Surely if something has no known antidote, then you can't actually wear it yourself as a lipstick, especially when that's the device that has been chosen as the route of administration. Is it me?
So anyone who can come up with some answers for how that happens, I'm really looking forward to hearing it. Even the ideas that I had about her always wearing some film over her lips (lovely lips of course) so that she could put the drug there doesn't quite work since she'd be forced to lick her lips at some point. Hmm. Please share your thoughts!
My current understanding then is that Melody, having been raised by the one eyed lady and had a few regenerations - at least one of which was in the alleyway that we saw right at the start of the series? - decides to go and live near Rory and Amy to have some of the childhood that she should have had and to be near her parents. But this is really a ploy to find out more about the doctor and because she knows that one day the doctor will come back to Amy and she can strike. As we saw.
The Hitler stuff and the clever little constantly changing justice machine offers yet another approach by which the Dr may be saved (perhaps he gets hold of that one and that is what gets shot - gives another reason for why the fire was needed).
So for me it was a fun episode, even if it was just a little disjointed without a good narrative flow throughout. Still it fills a gap in the underlying story. Looking forward to next week now!
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