New Who 5.7: Amy's Choice

I'm not doing a very good job of watching Doctor Who at the time of broadcast this season. Looking back over my posts about it, it seems that I've only seen three of the seven episodes of the season so far live at the point of transmission. It comes of zipping around the country doing exciting things like weddings, conferences and house-warming parties. And of course then, once you've done that, you have other things to write up which end up pushing Doctor Who reviews down the schedule, and meaning that they don't get done until the following weekend. Oh well, I expect I'll learn to live with the trauma....

Anyway, I did watch Amy's Choice during the week. I suppose it isn't technically the first time that New Who has presented us with a story set in ( an explicitly illusory alternate reality )

( Self-critique and the questions the show cannot usually address )

( Amy's resolution )

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New Who 5.8: The Hungry Earth

Well, so far this seems to be set up to play out along very similar lines to ( Three's The Silurians )

( Amy and Rory )

( Portrayals of under-privileged characters )

( Rory as companion )

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