Doctor Who: A Good Man Goes to War
I'd considered the idea that the girl from the season premiere was Amy and Rory's daughter and that Amy and Rory's daughter was River, and as soon as I saw the baby's name, I knew where that was going. After that, the rest of the episode felt a bit anticlimactic. The idea that other people could see the Doctor as a warrior and that he needs to be careful not to become a greater threat than anything he fights - that's pretty well-traveled ground at this point. He does seem kind of destruction-happy lately, but it's hard to tell how much of that is thematically significant and how much is just the result of having a different showrunner with a different POV.
I did like the scene between River and Rory, where she's obviously reacting to him as her father and he equally obviously has no clue. Would love to see more of the Silurian-human Victorian lesbian crimefighting duo! And the idea that a human baby conceived in the time vortex can be born with Timelord powers is... interesting.
Since I didn't post about last week's ep: gosh, a female character in a sci-fi show having a sudden or mystical pregnancy and winding up strapped to a table by villains before or during labor. WHAT ARE THE ODDS? (Probably about 80% at this point.)
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