Dr Who: Series 6, Episode 2 - The Day of the Moon

Whoah …

Now, hang on … !

I’m impressed, I really am … !

Mostly because I’ll happily admit to having watched this week’s episode of Dr Who — The Day of the Moon — and am as gobsmacked as I was, last night when I watched it at Gwen and Stef’s place in Kent.

And a touch more focused: after all, I was giving both Gwen and Stef a brief run down of last week’s episode.

And reassurances that, yes, the TARDIS does have a swimming pool.

Although, as the Doctor mentions in the Tom Baker story, The Invasion of Time, it’s technically the bathroom …

Ahem … !

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The Day of the Moon follows on from last weeks episode indirectly: set a few days after The Impossible Astronaut, it shows us the Doctor imprisoned in a box or Dwarf Star alloy.

And Canton Everett Delaware 3rd chasing down River, Amy and Rory, across various parts of the USA.

Which turns out to be something of a misdirection on the part of the former FBI man: it serves to give the team a base of operations — and access to the TARDIS — that is completely invisible to the Silence.

AND gives them somewhere to plan how to deal with a species that’s been — seemingly — living off the backs of humanity for a while.

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Actually … ?

Actually, I’ve got to confess, the way the Silence were beaten tonight was fantastically clever.

Clever …

Clever and almost incidental, in a bizarre way.

Because watching The Day of the Moon, I’m very aware that these two episodes are the first two instalments of a much larger story arc.

Just as an example … ?

I think Mr Moffat — along with Arthur Darvill — have managed to add more background to Rory than we would’ve expected …

Plaudits, there, I think, to Arthur Darvill!

There’s more …

We find out that Amy may have a lot more to do with the little girl than we think: not only is there a photograph of Amy — with a baby — in the little girl’s room at the mysterious orphanage, but that someone — out of the proverbial blue — is watching her.

And as for the girl … ?

We’ve been told she’s human … But we also find out she has a trick up her sleeve …

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Now, I think …

No, scrub that, I know that I’m impressed.

And I’ll be honest … ?

I’d like to avoid saying that series six looks like being ‘the best yet’, I really do.

But … ?

I’m pretty convinced this is going to be a cracker.

I don’t know if it’ll get awards — Lord knows Matt Smith’s already up for a BAFTA — but I’m pretty sure this is going to demand an audience that’ll need to be able to mentally go at a run to keep up.