Series Six of Doctor Who got off to a great start last week with 'The Impossible Astronaut'; the first of a two part story; that story concluded this week with an even better episode. Three months after last week's events things are not going well for The Doctor and his friends... The Doctor is the prisoner of FBI agent Canton Delaware; Amy and Rory get shot and River has jumps from high up in a skyscraper; and this is all before the opening credits! Of course nothing is quite what it looks like and we soon learn that they are all well and are preparing to fight back against the aliens known as 'The Silence'. In order to do this they must devise a way to record their encounters with the Silence before their memories are lost; they must also find the little girl in the space suit. The search for the girl takes Amy and Delaware to a particularly creepy orphanage where Amy meets the young girl again and is confronted by a large number of Silence.
This episode was a great conclusion to the story with some genuinely scary moments; in particular the events in the orphanage and when the Doctor and Rory can hear everything Amy says when she is captured but do nothing to help her. As well as the scares there are some nicely touching scenes as well as ending that sets things up nicely for a story that is bound to occur later in the series... I won't spoil that though! The final confrontation between our heroes and The Silence was done in a way that will please all but the most cynical of viewers; River clearly doesn't share The Doctor's aversion to firearms and proves it in spectacular fashion. Once again the acting is very good and Steven Moffat continues to come up with the best story lines of the Twenty-first Century 'Doctor Who'.
This episode was a great conclusion to the story with some genuinely scary moments; in particular the events in the orphanage and when the Doctor and Rory can hear everything Amy says when she is captured but do nothing to help her. As well as the scares there are some nicely touching scenes as well as ending that sets things up nicely for a story that is bound to occur later in the series... I won't spoil that though! The final confrontation between our heroes and The Silence was done in a way that will please all but the most cynical of viewers; River clearly doesn't share The Doctor's aversion to firearms and proves it in spectacular fashion. Once again the acting is very good and Steven Moffat continues to come up with the best story lines of the Twenty-first Century 'Doctor Who'.