Angels Take Manhattan

[tardis_stowaway]

That was better than a lot of recent episodes written by Moffat, but it still had some problems.  I give it one thumb mostly up.

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Comments

[ladymercury_10]

This episode made basically no sense, but I have pretty much resigned myself to the fact that Doctor Who is not a show that prioritizes making sense very highly...or sometimes, at all. :P If it works on an emotional and/or entertainment level, I'll usually give it a pass, and I thought this episode did.

I was too busy being proud of Amy and Rory and how they've grown up and grown into each other, and also crying, anyway. :P

[john_amend_all]

In fairness, the Laws of Time, at least insofar as they apply to the Whoniverse, pretty much are Moffat's :-)

[skalja]

Didn't Ten use a bit of regeneration energy to repower the TARDIS in Pete's World, or am I misremembering?

[tardis_stowaway]

Thanks, I forgot that bit of precedent. Checking a transcript, his words were "I just gave away ten years of my life." Sounds like probably a use of regeneration energy, though it's a bit ambiguous.

I do consider charging up the TARDIS as fundamentally different from healing a person, even if that person has special qualities due to her conception in the TARDIS. I also found that particular moment of Rise of the Cybermen to be a little dumb in the first place. Still, you are right that Eleven's healing of River's hand is not as completely out of left field as I initially believed.

[skalja]

Now, if only every other inconsistency in the ep could be so easily handwaved, eh?