The second half of Matt Smith's second season as the Eleventh Doctor kicked off last Saturday with an episode entitled Let's Kill Hitler. It was written by show runner Steven Moffat. Following on from my previous entry regarding spoilers I saw this episode completely unspoiled, especially the reveal that Amy and Rory's friend "Mels" was actually one of River Song's regenerations. In this case I believe being spoiler-free added to my enjoyment of the episode. Judging from the Television Without Pity forums, this seems to have been rather a divisive episode with some viewers turned off by what they perceived as Moffat's flaunting his cleverness in the viewer's face. Personally, I really enjoyed it, although it owes a great deal to the charisma of Matt Smith and Alex Kingston playing The Doctor and River Song respectively. Honourable mentions to Arthur Darvill and Karen Gillan. I really doubt I would have enjoyed this episode nearly as much with different actors. Alex Kingston in particular appeared to have an absolute blast playing this episode. So with this episode we've now seen the first and last meetings between River and The Doctor from River's perspective. We've yet to see the last from The Doctor's…
The second half of Matt Smith's second season as the Eleventh Doctor kicked off last Saturday with an episode entitled Let's Kill Hitler. It was written by show runner Steven Moffat. Following on from my previous entry regarding spoilers I saw this episode completely unspoiled, especially the reveal that Amy and Rory's friend "Mels" was actually one of River Song's regenerations. In this case I believe being spoiler-free added to my enjoyment of the episode. Judging from the Television Without Pity forums, this seems to have been rather a divisive episode with some viewers turned off by what they perceived as Moffat's flaunting his cleverness in the viewer's face. Personally, I really enjoyed it, although it owes a great deal to the charisma of Matt Smith and Alex Kingston playing The Doctor and River Song respectively. Honourable mentions to Arthur Darvill and Karen Gillan. I really doubt I would have enjoyed this episode nearly as much with different actors. Alex Kingston in particular appeared to have an absolute blast playing this episode. So with this episode we've now seen the first and last meetings between River and The Doctor from River's perspective. We've yet to see the last from The Doctor's…