He’s instantly into the part, and commands each scene he’s in. Amy Pond, performed by Karen Gillan, is going to take just a little more getting used to, and I’m by now sick of everybody going on about how engaging she is. With a bit of luck the main focus will move to her acting and the tales once she’s not running round in a kinky policewoman’s get-up. This primary tale within the new Doctor Who series is a reasonably standard earthbound SF story, but it is in how things are brought to a climax that the fantastic thing about Moffat’s screenplay lies.
The way through which the Eleventh Doctor Who overcomes the newest menace, and saves the earth in simply twenty minutes, is brilliant. The episode is fantastically put together, and while the effects are a little bit unwieldly sometimes, it is possibly the most effective ‘New Doctor’ episode we’ve had since the TV show came again in 2005.
The direction and editing are great, but the music is not ideal in just a few parts, most notably the latest version of the famous Doctor Who theme tune. I do like the new title sequence however. The latest TARDIS is excellent, the Eleventh Doctor Who is very promising and Amy reveals promise. In all, it’s an amazing start to what is going to with a bit of luck be a significant run of this rightful establishment of genre tv