Oh, and it's interesting. Often hilarious. The banter between Amy and Rory is a lot of the best we've seen concerning those characters. I especially enjoyed Rory's "We're expended, aren't we? The move fell and we're deceased. We're dead. Again. " I mean, it helps that I have a tendency to love every line that ever happens of Rory's mouth, but in this case I have to say that we even enjoyed Amy, a character who usually frustrates my home to no end. Moffatt has often touted Amy like a great character because she's "mad, " but it's rare that people see this from the woman. Her plan to open the door for any dolls rather than hide great moment for the persona, even if it doesn't work out as she planned. Along with the Doctor gets some great lines also. The reference to "Snow White and also the Seven Keys to Doomsday" will make you grin in the event you get the reference and no less than chuckle if you don't.
I'm not surprised that this episode was so standalone, since it's widely known among Doctor Who fans so it was actually intended to air much earlier in the season, after "The Doctor's Wife" nonetheless before "The Rebel Skin. " It was moved so a greater variety of stories might be told in the first half of the series ("Curse of the actual Black Spot" was speculated to air in this position), and I could sort of see the reason. Havign Amy and Rory call it quits from the Doctor for the vast majority of episode is quite similar to "The Doctor's Wife, " and the father/son issues here is so visible as a weird inversion of the in "The Rebel Flesh" in addition to "The Almost People. " Obviously, there are also a good deal of strange resonances between this particular episode and last months, what with the greatest war criminal in the twentieth century having been shoved within a cupboard and forgotten regarding, and now a infant is told to metaphorically put all his fears in the cupboard. In any event, it does create a good deal of jarring tonal issues, as though Amy and Rory have stopped caring in regards to the search for their princess (But maybe we're supposed to understand that they have, because they now find out about her childhood? It appeared to be never clear last week). Along with the reference to the Doctor's final fate was shoehorned in to the final shot of that episode, obviously as a last-minute change to integrate the episode into it's new position.
It's a bit strange to check out a standalone episode like this during Doctor Who's most serialized time in decades. Part of me wishes Moffat would commit a method or the other, to accomplish an entirely serialized story in order to do mostly standalone assaults like his predecessor, Russell TO Davies did. The existence of episodes like this (and its counterpart because of this spring, "Curse of the Ebony Spot") make Series Six some an odd duck when viewed as a whole. But here and currently it's hard to complain regarding an episode as enjoyment, scary, and touching since "Night Terrors".
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