Doctor Who: Amy's Choice - Thoughts (S.5 E.7)

Doctor Who: Amy's Choice
Season Five - Episode 7

Amy's Choice is a character piece. It’s an exploration of all three current cast members with a focus on Amy Pond in particular. The episode opens “five years later” with the Doctor stumbling back into Amy and Rory’s blissful married life in a sleepy English village. Amy is now pregnant and Rory has a terrible ponytail. 

What the hell happened here then?

~ I liked this episode more than i thought i would.

It's good idea but it felt that the entire plot was limping to an end.

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The character Amy has always been frankly annoyingly self obsessed to me.
I like that character of Amy, don't get me wrong.
It's not the writing that's at fault here.
I really just hate the way Karen portrays Amy.
Loud and bashful doesn't have to be annoying girls and boys! If you remember back to the character Donna you can see my point. I just find that Karen's lack of natural acting talent is sapping what life and spark the character Amy could ever of had.

So i'm afraid i am with those who are underwhelmed with Amy.

anyway...

Like i was saying i really enjoyed tonight's episode, personally finding it the best so far as it was really unsettling & creepy - reminded me a bit of Hush in Buffy or the original Prisoner series. 

While i agree that the explanation was rubbish It could've been written a bit better. 

No doubting it there.

~x~

I'm afraid. I was thinking how much better the story would have been if it was a black and white 60's episode featuring Patrick Throughton with his companions Jamie and Zoe.

 ~x~

Enter: Toby Jones’s Dream Lord.

His oddly round yet still angular face looks like William Hague pushing himself through a rubber band and a brilliant bit of casting because we could imagine in a different universe were the Doctor could still be played by an older man, Jones would be just the man to do it.  

One of the best elements of the episode was in keeping the true nature of the Dream Lord hidden so that fans could spend much of the story assuming that he was somehow The Master, The Master or my guess, The Celestial Toymaker (it couldn’t be The Valeyard, of course, that would be silly, even though functionally they were doing much the same thing, expressing the Doctor’s id, and look at how I’m burying that in some brackets).  

 

Toby Jones was the pulling force of this show. His voice expressions, his demeanor was mysterious and dangerously intimidating. The lines Toby was given as the Dream Lord were pure genius! =P

and, - The comedy and scary atmosphere were wonderfully paced together.^-^

Next Week: "I sometimes wonder why I like the people of this miserable planet so much."

Stephanie xx