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Post by matthewsee on Jun 4, 2011 22:29:31 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Jun 11, 2011 20:59:09 GMT -5
A Good Man Goes to War ends the first half of the 2011 season for Doctor Who’s first experimentation with a split season.
I knew that the Cybermen were going to be in this episode but it was quite a surprise that they have very little to do in this episode, in fact they don’t even meet the Doctor here.
Also came as a surprise seeing Silurians, a Sontaran, the Judoons and Captain Avery.
The plotting of this episode may have looked really good on paper but somehow it did not translate well on screen. In fact I find this the weakest of all of Steven Moffat’s written episodes.
The episode ends with the revelation that River Song is Melody Pond. The name Melody Pond seems to be the clue about River’s identity since the meaning of the two set of names are the same but in reverse order.
The revelation of River’s identity could have felt more satisfying if the previous scenes of this episode had been better in its execution.
The Doctor will be back for Let’s Kill Hitler but Doctor Who fans can keep themselves occupied elsewhere in the Whoniverse in the meantime with Torchwood: Miracle Day.
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Post by matthewsee on Jun 12, 2011 13:54:38 GMT -5
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Post by chase on Jul 15, 2012 6:48:00 GMT -5
Unsatisfying in so many ways. The Doc doesn't go to war. How did he blow up Cybermen? How did the CM not just shoot Rory and how did they just let him go? How did the Cm know about Amy being time napped? Why did the Doc pick these idiots to be his army? Why is he so smug against the Colonel (the Capt Runaway scene has to be even more embarssing than the Pandorica speech Matt Smith butchered)? And then we get a girl who is Doctor-crazed, two gay men who get killed, headless monks with ...uhm, light sabres, and the Doc not knowing that his plans are all for nothing...he gets lots of people killed or so we think...for nothing. That's not the real baby. He's made to look like a dope. Say weren't the pirates in space in a nother universe? And we get fighter planes in space again. They blow stuff up and the Doc claps. This Doc is truly officially annoying and the worst Doctor yet. Just awful. Awful story. The revelation was dumb and made no sense. There are hints of good ideas al over Moffat's time on the show but the execution is almost always poor. Really unfunny Silurian and SOntaran. Nothing good here.
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Post by matthewsee on May 22, 2016 22:40:27 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Oct 22, 2017 5:41:47 GMT -5
Picked this up on the TARDIS Wiki on A Good Man Goes To War on one of the myths that came out of the production of this episode:
“Had John Barrowman reprised his role as Captain Jack Harkness in this story, he would have fallen victim to the Headless Monks and received a beheading. His head would live on by itself and eventually become the Face of Boe. This remains unconfirmed.”
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