Okay, the title is intentionally controversial as I thoroughly enjoyed last night’s episode of Doctor Who, but I can’t help feeling that the ending wasn’t the great cliffhanger Steven Moffat has been promising us.\u00a0 And for those who have ignored the spoiler warning, I really am going to mention stuff you may not have seen yet.<\/p>\n
Firstly, I’d guessed that the baby was River Song\u00a0based on\u00a0the trailer in which River says that the Doctor will finally find out who she is.\u00a0 Please!\u00a0 Did anyone not guess from that?\u00a0 Even if you were lucky enough to miss the trailer this was right at the beginning of the episode and made the moment of revelation a bit of an anti-climax.\u00a0 We should never have had the scene between Rory and River where she gave this away.<\/p>\n
Secondly, I think the ending was structured wrongly.\u00a0 If River had appeared while the baby was still there and explained that Melody Pond and she were one and the same, the Doctor could have momentarily puzzled over the fact that they\u00a0were together in the timeline, we’d then\u00a0get the appearance of the gloating one-eyed woman and the baby turning to milk (well, that’s what it looks like).\u00a0 Everyone stunned.\u00a0 End of episode.<\/p>\n
Instead, we have River saying that everything is going to be all right because she’s proof of that.\u00a0 What kind of cliffhanger is that?<\/p>\n
I know that the ending I propose has similarities to the ending of the previous episode, but because that one was so dramatic a number of people thought that was the mid-season cliffhanger.<\/p>\n
I’d like to repeat that I still enjoyed the episode and love what Moffat is doing with the Doctor, but in my opinion the episode could have been even better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Okay, the title is intentionally controversial as I thoroughly enjoyed last night’s episode of Doctor Who, but I can’t help feeling that the ending wasn’t the great cliffhanger Steven Moffat has been promising us.\u00a0 And for those who have ignored the spoiler warning, I really am going to mention stuff you may not have seen … <\/p>\n