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It's called 'revival' over here a lot.

What annoys me the most about s6 is how 'River Song' is the answer to every ongoing mystery, and it's treated like a mindblowing reveal each time. That and them pulling the ol' 'That is The Doctor, and he is most certainly dead. No, for real. I promise. He was killed here. Definitely.' only to give a cheap cop-out in the finale. Obviously he was never gonna stay dead but don't emphasise it so heavily if you're just gonna pull a crappy Teselecta twist at the end like that!

The plastic people two-parter was bad (I second the complaint about its aesthetics), especially because its lesson is immediately undermined by Doc 'killing' plastic Amy at the end. And 'A Good Man Goes to War' does the same thing that 'The Pandorica Opens' does- give The Doctor a 'badass' speech where he talks his way to victory, then five minutes later reveal that he had fallen into the antagonists' trap and it was all for nothing lol.

Overall I think there's a bunch of good ideas in S6, I even like the main arc episodes aside from the big inconsequential reveals scattered around. But it isn't written nearly well enough to justify being so serialised, and they flub the landing big time. Amy and Rory's emotional arcs are not given the importance they should, and River is used as a plot device far more than a character (except in Day of the Moon, I like her talk with Rory there). I agree The Girl Who Waited is probably the highlight.

Lightning Strikes posted...

Oh man you should watch series 10 because the finale is one of the best Doctor Who stories ever and possibly the best thing Moffat has ever written. Its interesting that he actually wanted to leave after series 9, couldnt, yet still managed to produce a fantastic series.

Ooh this does tempt me!